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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May 10
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1940 Winston Churchill succeeded Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister. Following the German invasion of France with a lightning advance through the Low Countries, it became clear that, following failure in Norway, the country had no confidence in Chamberlain's handling of the war and so he resigned. Although the prime minister does not traditionally advise the King on his successor, Chamberlain wanted someone who would command the support of all three major parties in the House of Commons and he recommended Churchill, and, as constitutional monarch, George VI asked Churchill to be prime minister. Churchill's first act was to write to Chamberlain to thank him for his support.
SUPERB WARTIME PORTRAIT OF CHURCHILL BY STONEMAN
CHURCHILL (Sir Winston Spencer, 1874-1965, Prime Minister)
Superb portrait photo by Walter Stoneman, signed and dated on the mount, showing him half length seated, looking directly into the camera with his hand resting on some papers, 5” x 4½” in mount 7½” x 5”, no place, 1944
33724
CHAMBERLAIN (Neville, 1869-1940, Prime Minister)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Dear George’ telling his correspondent that he is leaving for “Aberdeenshire without having found any further opportunity to avail myself of your hospitable offer ... I should certainly have come again if I had not been fully occupied. The weather has been terribly unsettled and has no doubt diminished everyone’s bag ... I was shooting with Atholl yesterday. We got 83 brace but I believe if we had had a decent day we might well have got 120 brace. On Saturday I went with my son and another boy to one of Wentworth's lochs for the afternoon only. We had 2 in the boat & one fishing from the shore but as none of us had anything longer than gumboots we could not reach far enough to do much good. However we got 7 from the shore & 34 in the boat making 41 trout which weighed 13lbs 6ozs practically 3 to the lb. Wentworth was rather astonished so I suppose we were more than usually successful ...”, 2 sides 4to., Dalchosnie, Kinloch Rannoch, Perthshire, 4th September 1934 1934
38065
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May 10
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