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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October 16
ON THIS DAY
On this day In1854 Oscar Wilde was born. He was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. In 1950 C. S. Lewis's classic book "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" was released in London. Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of Narnia, and The Space Trilogy.
“I AM HAVING A GREAT SUCCESS AND WILL RETURN IN TRIUMPH (AS USUAL)” WILDE (Oscar, 1854-1900, Irish Poet and Dramatist) Affectionate Autograph letter signed on a correspondence card to “Dear Sallie” saying “You are a good little girl to write and I send you my photograph - I am having a great success, and will return in triumph (as usual). I know you will be glad to see me again and I will be so glad to see Sallie ...”, 2 sides card, no place, no date 38112
LEWIS (C. S., 1898-1963, Writer & Scholar, Author of ‘The Screwtape Letters’) Typed Letter Signed (‘C. S. Lewis’) to “My dear June” saying that he is “waiting for a suitable moment to show Warnie the cutting. It is more like the N.I.C.E. than I should have beleived [sic] possible. I’m afraid ‘Our Town’ will be out of the question, but all good wishes. I liked your performance in the ‘Octopus’ and thought your ghost career a complete success ... more interesting than Act I ...”, 1 side oblong 4to., with original autograph envelope signed with initials, Magdalen College, Oxford, 26th October 1945 36817
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