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.
On this day... see what happened on your special day
March 14
On This Day
On this day in 1879 Albert Einstein, the theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate was born in Germany. This photo was signed shortly before he died on 17th April 1955, he had suffered internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Rudolph Nissen in 1948 and refused treatment. Also on this day in 1903 W B Yeats & Lady Gregory's play the "Hour-glass" premieres in Dublin
EINSTEIN (Albert, 1879-1955, German born American Mathematical Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner)
Superb photograph signed and dated on the mount showing him the year that he died with, 4½” x 4½” in mount 6½” x 4½”, no place but Princeton, some wear on the edges1955
YEATS (William Butler, 1865-1939, Irish Poet & Dramatist)
Excellent Autograph letter to to Mrs Reilly, wife of Sir Charles Herbert Reilly, (1874-1948, architect and teacher, Head of the Liverpool School of Architecture) telling her that “Mrs Reynolds has written to me about the fur rug & I have asked her to send it to me here, unless you have sent for it … I hoped to be able to come by Liverpool but it proved to be impossible … I hate fastening up a parcel and any kind of a rug must be harder than most parcels …”, 1 side 8vo., Nassau Hotel, Dublin altered from Coole Park, Co Galway headed paper, 18th November no year
Click on images to view more details
