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 23
ON THIS DAY
On this day in 1799 Thomas Hood, the English poet and composer was born. He wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch and later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. He was never robust and lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. In 1883 Douglas Fairbanks, the American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter was born. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro THOMAS HOOD BRINGS OUT HOOD’S MAGAZINE AND EXPOUNDS HIS PHILOSOPHY HOOD (Thomas the Elder, 1799-1845, Poet & Humorist) Long and entertaining Autograph Letter Signed to Lady MORGAN (Sydney, circa 1783-1859, née Owenson, Irish Novelist, wife, 1812, of Sir Thomas, c. 1780-1843), saying that “Observing in the papers your return to town, pray allow me to call on you by proxy, my Magazine being, pro tempore, my representative”, commenting that “the great man of Great Marlboro Street”, Henry Colburn, (1784 or 1785-1855, the publisher of the New Monthly Magazine and Humorist), “is very sore, on my assuming the right of speculating with my own brains ... to judge by his rejecting three letters for me addressed to his care, which were sent adrift with the endorsement by the Postman ‘Not known to Mr Colburn’”,4 sides 8vo, Devonshire Lodge, New Finchley Road, St John’s Wood, 5th January 1844, closed tear in side 3 expertly mended, elsewhere in fine condition 56475 FAIRBANKS (Douglas, 1883-1939, Actor,) Fine photo signed and inscribed, “To R.M.Dodd sincerely”, showing him head shoulders in profile, 7”x 5”, no place, no date 25377
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