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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April 16
On This Day
On this day in 1705 Queen Anne knighted Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1707, under the Acts of Union, England and Scotland were united as a single sovereign state known as Great Britain.
1874 Dr David Livingstone's body arrives in Southampton. He was one of the most popular national heroes of the late 19th century in Victorian Britain,
ANNE (1665-1714, Queen of Great Britain & Ireland)
Fine document signed as Queen at the head addressed to our “Trusty and Welbeloved Edward Nicholas” concerning the “Annuall Sums which were lately paid and payable by Spencer Compton Esqr to divers persons as of Our Royall Bounty according to Our Establishment Warrants and Directions ... You shall receive and enjoy the like allowance or Salary of Four hundred pounds pr ann as was payable to the said Spencer Compton, Our will and pleasure therefore is, and We do hereby direct and authorise you out of such money as is or shall be impressed to you at the said Receipt of Our Exchequer to Receive deleyne and take to your own use the said allowance or Salary of Four hundred pounds a year ...” 1 side folio, Court at Windsor Castle, 13th August 1713
LIVINGSTONE (David, 1813-1873, Scottish Missionary & Explorer)
The final four sides of a superb Autograph Letter Signed to the Rev. Edwin SIDNEY (1798-1872), “But after all it is not the false or even true philosophers whose sympathies well up to all this world of woe. It is the men in whose hearts the love of Christ is the controlling motive that feel for all the lost ... of our race whether at home and abroad ...”, he continues about his plans to “experiment with the tame buffaloes of India - they are so like the wild ones of Africa which are not killed by the poison of the Tsetse that I have sent over 14 which I propose to use as beasts of burden - and if they withstand the evil effects of the bite of this insect we shall confer a greater boon on Africa than you will on England by ... At present no beast of burden exists there. I have also nine Africans who were recaptured and educated at a Government school near Bombay....” , 4 sides 8vo., no place, no date 1866
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