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 16
On this day in 1832 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin landed at San Tiago, Cape Verde and in 1957 Toscanini, the Italian US conductor died in New York aged 89
“THE PROGRESS OF JAPAN IS THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE WORLD”
DARWIN (Charles, 1809-1882, Naturalist, Writer of ‘On The Origin of Species’)
Important Letter signed to Sulivan returning Christmas greetings with the hope that he will “live for many years to do good to others, & to make all around you happy. Your extracts about the Fuegians are extremely curious and have interested me much. I have often said that the progress of Japan was the greatest wonder in the world, but I declare that the progress of Fuegia is almost equally wonderful ...” he carries on about “poor Mellersh, his case seems hopeless. He told me some time ago how much he suffered from sciatica and said he could not wish his worst enemy to suffer nearly so much ...” about himself he says that his “days are uniformly spent in working on the physiology of plants ...” and he ends that he is pleased that he liked “my little life of Dr Gras ...”, 3 sides 8vo., Down, Beckenham, Kent, 3rd January 1880
TOSCANINI CONDUCTING
TOSCANINI (Arturo, 1867-1957, Italian Conductor)
Fine photo signed in red ink showing him head and shoulders, with his conductor’s baton to his lips, 7½” x 5”, no place, no date
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