Every day Sophie Dupre presents two items from her large stock of signed photographs, autograph letters, autographs for sale, royal memoralbilia and antiquarian manuscripts.
The photographs are presented with the catalogue descriptions.
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January 05
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1922 Ernest Shackleton died of a heart attack at the age of 47. He was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
In 1829 Sir Roger Tichborne was born. He was the missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history.
SHACKLETON (Sir Ernest Henry, 1874-1922, British Antarctic Explorer)
Fine typed letter signed to Mr Macdona, concerning arrangements, presumably for a lecture or talk, “I shall be very pleased to stay with you if it does not put you out, as I must leave by the first train in the morning ... perhaps it would be better for me to stay at a hotel close to the station. I will find my own way from Worcester to West Kirby ...”, 1 side 4to., 9 Regent Street, London SW, headed paper, telegraphic address “Antexpedi, London”, 5th November 1912
37803
KENEALY (Edward Vaughan Hyde, 1819-1880, Irish Barrister and Writer, defender of the Tichborne Claimant, M.P.)
Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Sir’, (Thomas Richards Berry), sending his autograph “as you request; but have none of the other that I can spare”, embossed arms at head in red and ‘Cenngaelan’ in Irish letters, identification by Berry on side 4, 1 side 8vo., with conjugate leaf, Gray’s Inn, 13th June 1874, traces of sealing wax in corners of side 3
54717
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