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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November 08
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1937 Ramsay MacDonald died at the age of 71. He was the first Labour Party Prime Minister, leading Labour Governments in 1924, and 1929-1931, and having been expelled from the party he had helped to found, a National Government from 1931 to 1935. Shortly after he had been elected at a by-election in January 1936 for the Combined Scottish Universities seat, his physical and mental health collapsed. A sea voyage was recommended to restore his health, but he died at sea on board the liner Reina del Pacifico.
In 1880 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at New York's Booth Theatre. She was a French stage and early film actress. She was referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known", and is regarded as one of the finest actors of all time. Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, at the beginning of the Belle Epoque period, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas.
MACDONALD (J. Ramsay, 1866-1937, Prime Minister)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mrs L. Bowyer, conductor of the Day Nursery at the West End Mission Hall, Elgin, saying he “should like to see your nursery”, but he has “to work every forenoon & am only free in the afternoons ... tell your mothers I should have liked to see them”, with the original autograph envelope, on Foreign Office headed paper, 1 side 8vo, postmarked Lossiemouth, Morayshire, 9th June 1924
56614
BERNHARDT (Sarah, 1844-1923, Actress ‘The Divine Sarah’)
Fine large photo signed and dated showing her head and shoulders looking up romantically, wearing costume with an elaborate flowered headdress made of beads and matching collar on her dress, 10” x 8”, no place, 1904, laid down on card
34677
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