The First Lady Visits Isabella Stewart Gardner’s “Palace:” “One leaves Boston the moment that the door of the Palace closes behind one”

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MACDOWELL, EDWARD. (1860-1908). American composer, pianist and teacher. DS. (“E.A. MacDowell”). 1p. Oblong 8vo. New York, October 4, 1900. A partially-printed document signed by MacDowell and acknowledging that ANGELA DILLER (1877-1968) is qualified to attend “Course 2.5” in Columbia University’s Department of Music.

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19th-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND SIGNATURE QUILT. Bearing 168 ink signatures including President Chester A. Arthur; Civil War officers and Generals Benjamin Butler and Nathaniel P. Banks; congressmen; writers John Greenleaf Whittier and Samuel F. Smith, author of “America;” scientists; abolitionists and suffragists including Mary Livermore, Lucy Stone and John Brown’s widow, Mary. Accompanied by additional squares signed by President Rutherford B. Hayes and First Lady Lucy W. Hayes contained in a small frame and a framed 19^th-century list of the quilt’s signers handwritten on lined paper. The red-white-and-blue “square in a square” signature or album quilt measures 76 inches x 88 inches. Boston, circa 1876-1884.

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(1888-1946). Scottish inventor; produced the first televised picture of a moving object in 1926 and in 1928 developed color television. TLS. (“J.L. Baird”). ½p. 4to. London, December 10, 1935. On Baird Television Limited letterhead. To Mr. A. (Arthur?) Buckley.“I thank you for your letter of the 3^rd instant. I am sorry I will not be able to be present on January 9^th as I will be abroad until the beginning of February. If, however, you are having a Dinner in February, I will be very pleased indeed to be present…”" ["post_title"]=> string(86) "Scarce Letter from the Scottish Inventor of Television, on Baird Television Letterhead" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(85) "scarce-letter-from-the-scottish-inventor-of-television-on-baird-television-letterhead" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-10-08 13:44:23" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-10-08 17:44:23" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=33328" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [3]=> object(WP_Post)#3921 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(36322) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2019-09-03 15:27:04" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-09-03 19:27:04" ["post_content"]=> string(1452) "BARNUM, P.T. (1810-1891). American showman and entrepreneur. ALS. (“P. T. Barnum” and “P.T.B.”). 2pp. 8vo. Bridgeport, July 31, 1855. Written on Barnum’s highly decorative American Museum stationery on which Barnum has crossed out “New York,” written “Bridgeport, CT,” and marked the letter “Private.” To Mr. (H.B.) Curtis of the Ohio law firm Curtis and Scribner.“That Nichols is injuring my credit very much by peddling around my acceptances all over the country at enormous shares. Two of them which had been forwarded by some broker in Ohio were sold yesterday in Wall St. New York for 1½ per cent per month. Now this of course won’t do, & I cannot send him any more acceptances but must take them all up as they come due & I must now proceed to sell that property. I don’t see any other way. So I would be glad to get you to take hold of the matter promptly as we talked, and have it all sold. Will you please to take it in hand – as you know all the ropes. Truly yours… P.S. Mr. Higby sent you on Saturday last the certificates of R[ail] R[oad] stock asked for. I fear that the officer who took Turner’s depositions neglected to have the witnesses identify them, but perhaps not. I send copy of Buices [?] letter certified by R. D. Turner. He is expected every day in N.Y. when he comes I’ll try to send the original. 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(b. 1938). German painter and printmaker who pioneered neo-expressionism in post-war Germany. Signed image. (“G. Baselitz”). 1p. Postcard. N.p., N.d. Color postcard of his 1991 color woodcut Fünf Steine /Five Stones signed in black ink on the recto.After receiving his artistic training in Communist East Berlin, Baselitz rebelled against state sanctioned realism and helped revive expressionism, leading a neo-expressionist movement that rejected minimalism and conceptualism. At his 1963 inaugural solo exhibition in West Berlin authorities seized his painting Die grosse Nacht im Eimer or Big Night Down the Drain due to alleged lewd content, and his series Heroes and Partisans grapple with post-war German identity. In 1969, Baselitz famously began painting his subjects upside down. His “inverted paintings” challenge viewers’ familiarity with and understanding of the subject. Our postcard reproduces one of a series of three color woodcuts Baselitz made in 1991.Signed in the lower portion of the image and in excellent condition; uncommon." 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(1904-1984). American band leader, composer and jazz pianist. SP. (“Count Basie”). 1p. Oblong 4to. N.p., N.d. A black-and-white James J. Kriegsmann (1909-1994) photograph of Basie playing the piano, inscribed “Best Wishes” and signed in a light portion of the image." 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(1850-1898). American author and socialist best known for his influential utopian novel Looking Backward, which inspired the establishment of Nationalist Clubs across the United States. ALS. (“Edward Bellamy”). 3pp. 12mo. Chicopee Falls, N.d. (Circa 1897-98).  To American writer, urban planner and First Nationalist Club of Boston founder SYLVESTER BAXTER (1850-1927).“I read your article on Equality in the Reviews of Revues as soon as it came out but general debility has persecuted me till now from telling you how much delighted I and my friends have been with it. Nothing could have been… more effective as an introduction to my public or more delicate in taste. I appreciate especially the note of personal regard for myself which I take very kindly. I hope that your health has been better than mine since we met last and your views of life less autumnal. 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BERLIOZ, HECTOR. (1803-1869). French composer; creator of Harold in Italy, Symphonie Fantastique, and other masterpieces. ALS. (“Hector Berlioz”). 2pp. 4to. Paris, October 9, 1834. To l’intendant general de la liste civile. In French with translation.

“I am planning to give three concerts over the course of next November. The Salle des Menus Plaisirs, which you have been kind enough to make available to me several times in the past, is really the only venue in Paris that lends itself to these kinds of musical events. So I request that you will grant me permission to hold mine there. These concerts, just like the ones I gave last years, would take place on Sundays at 2 in the afternoon. With all my respect, dear General Intendant, your humble servant…”

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BERNHARDT, SARAH. (1844-1923). Celebrated French actress known as “the Divine Sarah,” best remembered for her role as Marguérite Gautier, the redeemed courtesan in Alexandre Dumas fils’ La Dame aux Camélias. SP. (“Sarah Bernhardt”). 1p. Oblong Folio. New York, 1896. In French.

Additionally signed by photographer, J. Byron. Several damp stains which affect several letters of the signature. Lightly bumped at edges. In overall very good condition.

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LEONCAVALLO, RUGGIERO. (1858-1919). Italian composer whose most enduring work is the one-act opera Pagliacci. SP. (“Leoncavallo”). 1p. Folio (image size approximate 6” x 8¼”, overall size 10” x 13¼”). Viareggio, May 25, 1915. A black-and-white bust portrait byViareggio photographer G. Magrinidepicting the elegantly attired and mustachioed composer and inscribed in Italian on the blank portion of the image.

“To my dearest friend Riccardo Luttigas [?] on the eve of the true union of all the peoples of Italy, with affection, Leoncavallo Viareggio, May 25, 1915, second day of the war”

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(1837-1921). American naturalist and essayist who influenced the American conservation movement. SP. (“John Burroughs at ‘Slabsides’”). 1p. Large oblong 4to. (West Park), N.d. (after 1895). A sepia photograph of Burroughs sitting on the steps of his summer cabin Slabsides, signed and identified by Burroughs as such on the lower blank margin." 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(1874-1965). British statesman and author; prime minister from 1940-45 and 1951-55. SP. (“Winston S. Churchill”). 1p. Oblong 12mo. N.p., N.d. A black-and-white postcard photo depicting Churchill seated at his desk reading a letter. Signed in the lower left portion of the image. According to Marc Kuritz, a leading dealer in Churchill material, the original photograph was taken by Walter Thomas, circa 1915, when Churchill served as First Lord of the Admiralty, a position he was to resign that year following the disastrous Dardanelles campaign. The identical image was later used on the 1933 first printing of the Eyre & Spottiswoode edition of Churchill’s The River War." 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(1759-1817). United States secretary of the treasury and acting secretary of war under President James Madison. MsS. (“A.J. Dallas”). 2pp. 4to. Washington, November 15, 1814. 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(1805-1883). American industrialist and “Merchant Prince” of Wall Street, congressman and philanthropist. ALS. (“W.E. Dodge”). 2pp. 4to. New York, February 21, 1868. On a folded sheet of Phelps, Dodge & Co. stationery. To J. C. Newkirk, Esq.“Your esteem’d fav^r of the 25 ult and 18 came duly to hand the former enclosing mem^o obtained from Magoun of lots sold & of those remaining, the latter en check for 200$ on… of payments from Renlack [?] & Franklin. I am perfectly astonished at the obstinacy of the man and cannot understand him at all. I find by looking in my papers that his last settlement was in 1858... With these and the map you can tell pretty well how the matter of the lots stand. But as to what he has rc^d I do not see as we can get at it in any other way but by trying to find from the parties as to what they have paid, he has no doubt rc^d some 4000$ that he has never paid over. Perhaps if you should say if he will now render a full … that I will take his notes pay at such times as he may desire for the balance due me he may come to terms. Suppose you try him one more with his letters in your hands and the map. I should like with the opening spring to close out what is left for what it can be sold for & will be glad if you will either take it in hand or employ some real estate man to do it. Please get the map corrected by Magoun. (This he will not reprise. I am sure.) and let it be keep carefully as I have no other. Very resp[ectfully] yours…” " ["post_title"]=> string(144) "Excellent and Rare Autograph Letter Signed on Financial Matters by the “Merchant Prince” of Wall Street and Co-founder of Phelps, Dodge & Co" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(39) "rare-letter-merchant-prince-wall-street" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-04-11 10:54:18" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-04-11 14:54:18" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=30366" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [14]=> object(WP_Post)#3932 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(20498) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:39:14" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:39:14" ["post_content"]=> string(843) "

DUNCAN, ISADORA. (1878-1927). American dancer who introduced the art of interpretive dance. ALS. (“Isadora”). 2pp. 4to. Viareggio, (Circa November/December, 1913). On her monogrammed Neuilly stationery the address of which she has crossed out and replaced with, “Villa Rigatti, Viareggio, Italy.”

“I am here in a villa by the sea dying of despair – Eleonora Duse was here very ill but she has left – I am all alone & I have hardly left the courage to move. I feel I am at the end of all & my efforts were in vain. I struggled but the thing has killed me after all – Paris is in place [des] Vosges. Do you see him? Write me your plans. I have no force even to write – …”

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I am... dying of despair”" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(115) "19647-duncan-isadora-an-als-mourning-the-death-of-her-two-children-i-am-here-in-a-villa-by-the-sea-dying-of-despair" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-09-25 10:16:16" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-09-25 14:16:16" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(159) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/autographs/19647-duncan-isadora-an-als-mourning-the-death-of-her-two-children-i-am-here-in-a-villa-by-the-sea-dying-of-despair/" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [15]=> object(WP_Post)#3933 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(30426) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2018-06-28 17:18:52" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2018-06-28 17:18:52" ["post_content"]=> string(1466) "DVORAK, ANTONIN. (1841-1904). Czech composer; Along with Smetana and Janacek, Dvorak is considered one of the three greatest exponents of the Czech nationalist tradition in music. SP. (“Antonin Dvorak”). 1p. Small 8vo. (Approximately 3 ½” x 5 ½”.) N.p., N.d. A black-and-white bust portrait (postcard format) of Dvorak by Prague’s Atelier J Mulač, boldly signed in the upper blank portion of the image.A prodigious violinist, Dvorak’s talent was first recognized by Johannes Brahms who was on the jury for the Austrian State Prize for Composition, which Dvorak won in 1874, 1876 and 1877 and who recommended the young composer to Simrock, his publisher, who commissioned Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances which made his reputation. Much of his work was inspired by his Bohemian heritage, and include his Moravian Duets, Three Slavonic Rhapsodies, Hussite Overture, Rusalka, and the Dumky Trio all of which have Czech, Moravian or other Slavic influences. Dvorak devoted much of his career to promoting Czech music and theater. Undoubtedly, however, it is his Symphony No. 9, known as the New World Symphony, composed in 1893 while he was director of the National Conservatory of Music in America, for which he is best known.Floated with a second, undated and unsigned candid photograph of Dvorak in an ornate vintage frame. In very fine condition; not examined out of the frame." 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(1897-1937?). American aviatrix; the first woman to pilot a plane solo across the Atlantic and who, in July 1937, mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific on a flight from New Guinea to Howland Island. SP. (“Amelia Earhart”). 1p. 4to. (Burbank, circa 1935). A black-and-white photograph of Earhart standing in front of the Earhart Vega at United Airport flanked by Hollywood stunt pilot ALBERT PAUL MANTZ (1903-1965, “AP Mantz”) and Lockheed test pilot MARSHALL HEADLE (1893-1945, “Marshall Headle”), who have also signed.[caption id="attachment_31706" align="alignnone" width="858"] Earhart's Lockheed Vega at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum[/caption]" ["post_title"]=> string(132) "Rare Signed Photograph of America’s Most Famous Aviatrix in Front of Her "Little Red Bus," a Lockheed Vega, Now in the Smithsonian" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(67) "rare-signed-photograph-americas-famous-aviatrix-front-lockheed-vega" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2020-02-05 15:52:13" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2020-02-05 20:52:13" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=30430" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [17]=> object(WP_Post)#3935 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(32951) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2018-09-11 20:33:29" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2018-09-11 20:33:29" ["post_content"]=> string(1404) "EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. (1890-1969). American general and thirty-fourth president of the United States. TMs. Unsigned. 6pp. Folio. (Washington, D.C., circa October 9, 1956). Six pages of the incomplete third typed draft of a speech President Eisenhower gave at Pittsburgh’s Hunt Armory in 1956. With numerous autograph emendations on every page (including a total of more than 175 words in Eisenhower’s hand) on every page, plus ¾ of a page of handwritten pencil notes on the verso of the third page that reads:“They have said that your Fed. Govt has ignored the educational needs of our children! The fact is that not once, but twice, in State of the Union Messages I urged speedy action upon the Congress. For the first time in our history the Fed Govt … a great convention of educators & laymen from all over our land and the fine plan submitted to the Congress for approval represented the consensus of the convention. It was a good plan – but it was rejected. In subsequent maneuvering a great attempt was made to show that one party is for education, another against. What foolishness! But these two single facts stand out: First – this Adm[inistration] urged swift action; The opposition produced nothing. … The opposition candidate has endorsed the essential principles of the Adm[inistration] bill which his party sent to defeat in the Congress.”" ["post_title"]=> string(114) "Six Pages of One of Eisenhower's Last Speeches Drafted Before Election Day 1956, Given at Pittsburgh's Hunt Armory" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(5) "32951" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 16:34:00" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 20:34:00" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=32951" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [18]=> object(WP_Post)#3936 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(20526) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:39:20" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:39:20" ["post_content"]=> string(1508) "

ENO, AMOS. (1810-1898). Wealthy and influential 19^th-century real estate developer. ALS. (“Amos R. Eno”). 1p. 8vo. New York, November 11, 1882. To George Bliss.

“I have heard said that among the numerous charities in which this city abounds, that no sufficient provision has been made for the unfortunate old merchants of New York. If that is so ought not something be done? Will you kindly favor me with your views and oblige…”

A successful dry goods merchant, Eno invested his profits in New York City real estate. Among his many successful ventures was the construction of the Fifth Avenue Hotel, located on Fifth Avenue and 23^rd Street, across from Madison Square. At the time of its construction in the late 1850s, the neighborhood was so far north that New York bankers refused to finance the project and it was dubbed “Eno’s Folly.” However, Eno’s business acumen was acknowledged after the hotel quickly became not only a financial success but New York City’s social center. It also served as the headquarters for Eno’s Second National Bank of New York. In 1884, his son John embezzled millions of dollars from the bank that led to a panic and a run on the institution. Amos Eno covered every demand for payment, but largely retired from business after the affair.

" ["post_title"]=> string(116) "Scarce Autograph Letter Signed by 19th-Century New York City Real Estate Developer about Charity for "Old Merchants"" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(101) "19589-eno-amos-scarce-autograph-letter-signed-by-the-19th-century-new-york-city-real-estate-developer" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 16:31:13" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 20:31:13" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(145) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/autographs/19589-eno-amos-scarce-autograph-letter-signed-by-the-19th-century-new-york-city-real-estate-developer/" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [19]=> object(WP_Post)#3937 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(30456) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2018-06-28 18:21:56" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2018-06-28 18:21:56" ["post_content"]=> string(363) "FRANKFURTER, FELIX. (1882-1965). Austrian-born, American jurist; Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1939-1962). ALS. (“FF”). 2pp. Oblong 8vo. Washington, D.C., February 7, 1964. On his Supreme Court stationery to which he has added his home address on Massachusetts Avenue. To Ted at the Atlantic Monthly." 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King of England and Emperor of India; and his son, the future King EDWARD VIII (DUKE OF WINDSOR). (1894-72). DS. (“George R.I.” and “Edward P.”). 2pp. Tall 4to. London, June 3, 1925. An appointment of Canadian opera soprano EMMA ALBANI-GYE (1847-1930) as Dame Commander of the Civil Division of the British Empire, with her autograph draft letter (unsigned) accepting the citation.George V ascended to the British throne with the May 1910 death of his father, Edward VII, the son and successor of Queen Victoria. George V’s 26-year reign witnessed challenges to Britain’s empire in Ireland and India and the upheaval of World War I, which altered the political landscape of Continental Europe and Britain. It was in 1917, due to anti-German sentiment, that George V changed his royal house’s name from Saxe-Coburg to Windsor.At the beginning of World War I, Edward, Prince of Wales, was commissioned to the Grenadier Guards, the official guard of the royal family but, to his great disappointment, he was not allowed to serve at the front. He did, however, distinguish himself in other campaigns abroad and “it was during the war that he first showed those qualities of charm, friendliness and sincerity that were to make him so popular,” (Royal Encyclopedia). After the war, he frequently represented his father, and became one of the most prominent celebrities of the day. But following his succession to the throne in 1936, public opinion turned against him because of his relationship with Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American, deemed unacceptable as a British queen. Edward’s determination to marry her led to the only voluntary abdication of a British monarch in history and made Edward’s reign the second shortest." 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(1895-1952). Rare presentation set (unsigned) of three volumes comprising the Holy Bible, The Book of Common Prayer, and Hymns Ancient and Modern uniformly bound in black morocco, bearing George VI’s gold embossed royal cypher on the covers, and gold embossing on the spine’s titles, black leather pastedowns, paper edges and dentelles. The bible and prayer book were printed by Eyre and Spottiswoode, (no date) and the hymnal printed by William Clowes, 1916. Provenance: Stanley Williams, former Superintendent of Buckingham Palace.Born Albert Frederick Arthur George during the reign of his grandmother, Queen Victoria, and third in line to the throne, “Bertie” developed a reserved personality, troublesome speech impediment and a deep spirituality. Taking the regnal name George VI, he succeeded his elder brother, King Edward VIII, whose scandalous relationship with Wallis Warfield Simpson, a twice-divorced American woman, led to his abdication in December 1936 after serving less than a year. “After the abdication crisis of 1936, [George] replaced his flashy elder brother Edward VIII and determined to re-establish the monarchy as the paradigm of decorum, reliability and reassuring staidness that it had been during his father’s reign,” (“George V: The Unexpected King and George VI: The Dutiful King,” The Guardian, Davenport-Hines)." 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GIGLI, BENIAMINO. (1890-1957). Italian tenor. SP. (“Beniamino Gigli”). 1p. Large Folio. (New York), 1939. An oversize and magnificent image inscribed on the photographer’s mount to the portrait’s photographer ANGELO LAVIOSA, “with my admiration and appreciation for the wonderful work.”

Considered the most famous Italian tenor after Caruso, Gigli achieved great success at New York’s Metropolitan Opera from 1920-1932, and as a guest artist there during the 1938-1939 season. He also appeared in films and concert tours. He is especially associated with the roles of Edgardo in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, André Chénier in Umberto Giordano’s opera of the same name and Rodolfo in Puccini’s La Bohème.

Laviosa was a New York portrait photographer from the 1920s to the 1960s whose career was documented in his autobiography An Era of Photography, published in 1979. Signed with Gigli’s characteristic flourish and in fine condition. Very rare in this format.

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GOUNOD, CHARLES. (1818-1893). French composer. SP. (“Ch. Gounod”). 1p. Cabinet. N.p., N.d. Inscribed in French to the American opera singer AMALIA MIGNON “MINNIE” HAUK (1851-1929), a soprano known for her portrayal of Carmen, which she could perform in four languages. An attractive sepia portrait by Paris’ Bosch studio depicting Gounod seated at a table with his bowler next to him, his head resting on his hand as he gazes directly at the camera.

Gounod’s early love of sacred music inspired him to pursue a religious vocation, but soon after entering a Carmelite monastery in 1847 to prepare for the priesthood, Gounod left his studies and turned away from the composition of church music to seek fame and fortune in the world of opera. Sapho, his first opera, debuted in 1850 and nine years later the composer secured a place in the history of French music with his popular opera based on Goethe’s Faust. The career advantages derived from the wild success of Faust were, however, mitigated by an unpopular extramarital affair with amateur singer Georgina Weldon, begun in 1871. Though he continued to write operas, oratorios and masses, none of Gounod’s later compositions rivaled the popularity of Faust.

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JOHNSON, LYNDON B. (1908-1973). 36^th president of the United States. DS. (“Lyndon B. Johnson”), countersigned by Secretary of State DEAN RUSK (1909-1994) (“Dean Rusk”). 1p. Folio. Washington, May 23, 1964. The appointment of American composer, conductor, teacher, and pianist LEONARD BERNSTEIN (1918-1990) to become a “Member of the Commission on Presidential Scholars.”

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LISZT, FRANZ. (1811-1886). Hungarian-born composer and pianist. SP. (Twice: “F. Liszt”). 1p. Imperial Cabinet. Weimar, July, 1885. A fine sepia photograph by Louis Held of the elderly composer playing the piano. Signed on the recto and inscribed in French on the verso a year before his death to American violinist ARMA SENKRAH (ANNA LORETTA HARKNESS) (1864-1900), “affectionately” from “the too old ex-pianist…”

From 1839-1847, Liszt toured “the whole of Europe, from Ireland to Turkey, from Portugal to Russia… This was Liszt’s most brilliant period as a concert pianist: he was adulated everywhere and honors were showered on him,” (The New Grove Dictionary).In 1847, Liszt met Princess Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein who was to have an immense impact on his life and work, including convincing him to abandon his career as a piano virtuoso and pursue composition. Having served as conductor of the Weimar court orchestra since 1843, Liszt followed the princess’ suggestion to give up touring and settle in Weimar in 1848 and conduct the orchestra full-time." 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(1931-1995). American baseball player regarded as the sport’s greatest switch hitter and one of the best ball players in history. ALS. (“Mickey Mantle”). 1p. 12mo. N.p., N.d. Written on a thick paper, circular cocktail coaster, possibly from a casino, inscribed on the verso.“To Jim Hope you hit 300 your Pal Mickey Mantle”Mantle was discovered by a New York Yankees scout in 1948 while still in high school. After his graduation he was signed to the Class-D minor league Independence Yankees where he played shortstop. After his promotion to the Class-C Joplin Miners, he was invited to the Yankees instructional camp where the manager decided to put him in right field during the 1951 season." ["post_title"]=> string(104) "The "Mick's" Bar-Coaster, Baseball-Related Note of Encouragement: "To Jim, Hope you hit 300 your Pal..."" 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(1743-1793). Swiss-born, French physician, journalist, and revolutionary. ALS. (“Marat, l’ami du Peuple”). 2/3p. Small 8vo. Paris, November 4, 1791. To revolutionary LOUIS LEGENDRE (1752-1797). In French with translation.“I hereby request that Mr. le Gendre hand over to Mr. D’Aubigny seventeen hundred pounds, the rest of the money that I entrusted to him as a deposit. Mr. D’Aubigny is highly regarded. Paris, November 1, 1791. [Signed] Marat, the friend of the People”" ["post_title"]=> string(112) "Very Rare Autograph Letter of the French Revolutionary Journalist and Agitator, Assassinated by Charlotte Corday" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(41) "rare-autograph-letter-marat-friend-people" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-09-25 10:18:53" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-09-25 14:18:53" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=31146" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [30]=> object(WP_Post)#3948 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(30601) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2018-06-29 16:00:51" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2018-06-29 16:00:51" ["post_content"]=> string(630) "MARTINEAU, HARRIET. (1802-1876). British author of groundbreaking works on sociology and political economy including How to Observe Morals and Manners, Household Education and Illustrations of Political Economy. ALS. (“Harriet Martineau”). 2pp. 4to. Westminster, February 23, 1838. English historian, educator and father of Matthew Arnold, THOMAS ARNOLD (1795-1842), has written an ALS (“T. Arnold”) on the integral leaf. Addressed to Episcopal clergyman and first professor of political economy at Columbia, JOHN McVICKAR (1787-1868)." 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(1892-1974). French composer of Le Boeuf sur le toit, La Creation du Monde and other staples of the 20^th-century repertoire; a member of Les Six. SP. (“Milhaud”). 1p. 4to. (Aspen), 1959. A charming black-and-white head-and-shoulders photograph of the Milhauds. Inscribed on the lower blank margin to Austrian-American conductor FELIX POPPER (1908-2000), “who brought The Pauvre Matelot to Aspen.” Additionally inscribed by Milhaud’s wife, French actress MADELEINE MILHAUD (1902-2008) “Thanks for your patience and your good idea! MM”" ["post_title"]=> string(111) "Large Photograph of the Composer and His Actress Wife Inscribed to the Austrian-American Conductor Felix Popper" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(45) "large-signed-photograph-composer-actress-wife" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 12:16:54" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 16:16:54" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=30611" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [32]=> object(WP_Post)#3950 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(20002) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:37:32" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:37:32" ["post_content"]=> string(1013) "

O’NEILL, EUGENE. (1888-1953).American playwright; winner of both the Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. TLS. (“Eugene O’Neill”). 2/3 p. 4to. Danville, February 22, 1938. On Tao House stationery. To [MAX] OTTO KOISCHWITZ (1902-1944). German-American author, professor and Nazi sympathizer.

"Before acknowledging your letter, forwarded out here, I have been waiting to receive the copy of your monograph which you said was being mailed under separate cover. It has not reached me yet – probably delayed in forwarding – but I am writing anyway to tell you how deeply I appreciate your interest in my work and to thank you for your letter. Also to tell you, regarding Bound East to Cardiff, that in my opinion you are quite right in laying emphasis on that play – although purely as a piece of dramatic writing I rate it considerably below The Moon of the Caribbees."

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“Home, Home! Sweet, Sweet Home!

‘Mid pleasures & palaces though we may roam

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like Home!

A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there

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PULITZER, JOSEPH. (1847-1911). Hungarian-born, American journalist, publisher and congressman. DS. (“Joseph Pulitzer”). 3pp. Legal Folio (8½” x 14”). N.p., April 7, 1887. Partially printed builder’s contract between Pulitzer and “carpenter and contracting builder” Frank S. Greene for changes to the building “known as the Provident Bank Building no. 513 Olive Street. Situated on the west line of the alley, in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri” and which would house the St. Louis-Post Dispatch from 1888 to 1902.

[caption id="attachment_33089" align="alignleft" width="189"] The St. Louis Post-Dispatch offices on Olive Street[/caption]An Austro-Hungarian immigrant, Republican politician and journalist, Joseph Pulitzer bought the German-American St. Louis Westliche Post in 1878, merged it with the St. Louis Dispatch and, by using it to expose corruption and injustice, made it one of the largest newspapers in the Midwest. Buoyed by its success, he bought the New York World in 1883 and implemented the same techniques he used in St. Louis to change the fortunes of the ailing newspaper. Despite his move to New York City, he retained ownership of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.In 1888, the Post-Dispatch offices moved from Market Street to 513 Olive Street, the address in our document, occupying the premises until 1902, at which point the company moved to North Broadway and then to a state-of-the art building at the corner of 12^th and Olive streets in 1918. Although the St. Louis Post-Dispatch continues to be the region’s largest newspaper, the building referred to in our document, like many earlier structures in St. Louis, has long since been demolished. Accompanied by a related typed memo signed by Greene. Folded with normal age toning and wear; in fine condition.

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(1882-1945). Thirty-second president of the United States. TLS. (“Franklin D. Roosevelt”). 1½pp. 4to. Albany, June 1, 1932. On two separate sheets, the first of which is his governor’s stationery with a gold-embossed seal of New York. To Mr. W.A. Wilson of Exeland, Wisconsin.“Let me assure you that I appreciate your recent letter and your frank expression of opinion. I am always glad to have all the criticism, suggestion and comment which I can possibly obtain. In a way, I agree with you that my views are ‘old’. So are the Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount. In other words, it is not easy to be original in stating fundamental principles and truths which we all recognize and which are all too often overlooked. I have felt that it was most important to analyze the fundamental questions now before our country before we proceed to build for the future. I can assure you that as Governor of New York my administration has been a progressive one and that we have had to meet fairly and squarely many of the problems which now confront the country as a whole. We have had a balanced budget; we were the first state in the nation to vote practical financial relief for the unemployed; we have made an intelligent and helpful survey of seasonal industries, thereby creating many jobs and stabilizing others, and we have actually reduced taxes by applying common-sense methods to our administration. 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(1858-1919). Twenty-sixth president of the United States. TLS. (“Theodore Roosevelt”). 1p. 4to. New York, July 10, 1912. On Outlook letterhead to REV. DR. JUDSON SMITH (died 1921), General Secretary of the American Tract Society.“I appreciate your letter and thank you for it. You are quite right about the platform. Each plank – and that includes the tariff plank as well – must state precisely what we, if we are returned to power, will attempt to do, and it must state no more than what we intend to carry out if we are able to. The one thing that I have always insisted upon is that we should never make any promises on the stump that we are not ready to carry out in practice as soon as we have the power. The reason that some of my opponents have been so bitter in their denunciation of me, is that they know that if I am returned to power, I will use every endeavor to carry out in practice what I have advocated in my speeches and addresses. Whereas, they know very well that they can support with safety many of our opponents, who make all kinds of impossible promises, without the slightest intention of ever trying to carry them out in practice. Faithfully yours...” [caption id="attachment_36923" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Theodore Roosevelt[/caption]" ["post_title"]=> string(89) "Fighting for his Platform, Shortly Before the First Progressive Party National Convention" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(88) "fighting-for-his-platform-shortly-before-the-first-progressive-party-national-convention" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 16:38:12" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 21:38:12" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "https://lionheartautographs.com/?post_type=autographs&p=36899" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [38]=> object(WP_Post)#3956 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(33892) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2018-12-04 16:37:59" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2018-12-04 21:37:59" ["post_content"]=> string(2062) "SMITH, W. EUGENE. (1918-1978). Pioneering American photojournalist. SP. (“W. Eugene Smith”). 1p. Postcard. N.p., N.d. A black-and-white MOMA postcard reproduction of his classic 1950 photograph The Thread Maker, Spain, signed in the lower blank margin.[caption id="attachment_35637" align="aligncenter" width="700"] W. Eugene Smith[/caption] As a photographer for LIFE magazine from 1939-1955, Smith pioneered the modern photo essay. While photographing the World War II Battle of Okinawa, he was wounded by mortar fire. In contrast to his wartime photos, Edward Steichen included Smith’s famous and enchanting 1946 image of his children walking in his garden, entitled The Walk to Paradise Garden, in the landmark 1955 exhibition The Family of Man. Smith’s notable photo essays include Nurse Midwife (1951) and A Man of Mercy (1954), which showed the work of Albert Schweitzer, yet also precipitated his resignation from LIFE over artistic differences. Other notable subjects were the city of Pittsburgh, Manhattan jazz musicians and Japanese victims of Minamata disease, a result of industrial mercury poisoning. The latter story angered Tokyo’s Chisso Company, the company responsible for the poisoning, employees of which attacked Smith, leaving him blind in one eye. Undeterred, Smith published “‘Minamata,’ Words and Photographs by W.E. Smith and A.M. Smith,” in 1975, and was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1974 for “best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise.”The image on our postcard is from his 1950 exploration of rural poverty in General Franco’s Spain and published as A Spanish Village in the April 9, 1951 issue of LIFE. In fine condition and rare in this format." ["post_title"]=> string(72) "Photographer W. 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(1890-1976). American photographer known for his pure, objective depictions of natural and architectural forms. ALS. (“Paul Strand”). 2/3p. 4to. New York, December 11, 1960. To New York photographer VITO CIOFFERO (?-2006).“Thanks for your letter just received. I do happen to have a print of the little girl apprentice with me and perhaps something can be worked out. In any event I would be glad to see you. Our time is getting short for our stay here so perhaps you would give me a ring. Cordially…”By 1915, Strand was already creating the abstract, patterned images for which he is best known. Among his photographs that change the scale of the subjects, are Still Life Pear and Bowls and Typewriter Keys. At the same time, Strand captured New York City’s modernism through abstraction and portraiture, and his post‑World War I photographs of Colorado, Maine, Quebec, and New Mexico reveal a keen awareness of landscape and “the spirit of place,” (Encyclopaedia Britannica).[caption id="attachment_35609" align="alignleft" width="543"] Rebecca and Paul Strand[/caption]" ["post_title"]=> string(160) "Autograph Letter Signed Referring to the Subject of One of His Famous Italian Portraits: “I do happen to have a print of the little girl apprentice with me”" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(86) "strand-refers-subject-one-famous-italian-portraits-happen-print-little-girl-apprentice" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 12:05:02" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-04-10 16:05:02" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=30293" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [40]=> object(WP_Post)#3958 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(36888) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "5" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 15:40:11" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-11-19 20:40:11" ["post_content"]=> string(1046) "TOLSTOY, LEO. (1828-1910). Russian philosopher and author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. SP. (“Leon Tolstoy”). 1p. Small 4to. (Overall size: 6¾” x 9¾.” Image size: 6 1/8” x 4 3/8.”) N.p., August 15, 1897. To L. d’Abartiague [possibly Basque scholar WILLIAM LEWY D’ABARTIAGUE, 1866-1944]. A sepia-toned photograph of Tolstoy seated on a garden bench, inscribed, signed and dated in French on the lower photographer’s mount.Born into Russian aristocracy, Tolstoy’s life and writing were influenced by his military experiences in which he fought the Chechenians and Tartar rebels on the Georgian border in the Caucasus. Tolstoy drew on his ten years of service when he commenced work on his epic novel War and Peace that described the fate of three Russian families following the aftermath of Napoleon’s 1812 Russian invasion. In 1877, he published Anna Karenina, a masterpiece of realist fiction for which he is equally well remembered." 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(1884-1972). Thirty-third president of the United States. DS. (“Harry Truman”). 3pp. Folio. Washington, January 15, 1952. To New Orleans businessman NICK CHRISTIANA, SR. (1911-1970). Countersigned by Truman’s Attorney General J. HOWARD McGRATH (1903-1966, “J. Howard McGrath”).Greeting:Whereas Nick Christiana was convicted in the United State District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on ten counts of an information (No. 21871), charging violation of Sections 904 and 925, Title 50, Appendix, United States Code, and, on June twenty-seventh, 1945, was sentenced to imprisonment for three years, to pay fines aggregating Eight thousand four hundred ninety-seven dollars and forty cents ($8,497.40), to stand committed, and also placed on probation for five years on condition that the fines be paid; and Whereas the said Nick Christiana was received at the Federal Correctional Institution, Texarkana, Texas, the designated place of confinement, on July twenty-fourth, 1945, and released on parole July twenty-fourth, 1946, from the Federal Correctional Institution, Seagoville, Texas; andWhereas the said Nick Christiana was discharged from parole supervision by expiration of sentence; andWhereas it has been made to appear to me that the said Nick Christiana has been making payments of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month for application on the aforesaid fines; and Whereas it has been further made to appear to me that the said Nick Christiana, since his release from confinement, has conducted himself in a law abiding manner: " ["post_title"]=> string(110) "Rare Presidential Pardon for a Louisiana Food Distributor Who Violated the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942" ["post_excerpt"]=> string(0) "" ["post_status"]=> string(7) "publish" ["comment_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["ping_status"]=> string(6) "closed" ["post_password"]=> string(0) "" ["post_name"]=> string(31) "rare-truman-presidential-pardon" ["to_ping"]=> string(0) "" ["pinged"]=> string(0) "" ["post_modified"]=> string(19) "2019-04-09 11:28:45" ["post_modified_gmt"]=> string(19) "2019-04-09 15:28:45" ["post_content_filtered"]=> string(0) "" ["post_parent"]=> int(0) ["guid"]=> string(66) "http://lionheart.arpreview.site/?post_type=autographs&p=31131" ["menu_order"]=> int(0) ["post_type"]=> string(10) "autographs" ["post_mime_type"]=> string(0) "" ["comment_count"]=> string(1) "0" ["filter"]=> string(3) "raw" } [42]=> object(WP_Post)#3960 (24) { ["ID"]=> int(20827) ["post_author"]=> string(1) "1" ["post_date"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:40:13" ["post_date_gmt"]=> string(19) "2017-07-12 18:40:13" ["post_content"]=> string(1015) "

VERDI, GIUSEPPE. (1813-1901). Italian composer of opera and vocal works. Signed image. (“G. Verdi”). 1p. Folio (image size 8¾” x 10½”, mount size 15¾” x 21¾”). N.p., N.d. A large and beautiful photographic reproduction by Adolph Braun Cie. of Giovanni Boldini’s famous and powerful portrait of Verdi inscribed by the composer to his publisher GIULIO RICORDI (1840-1912). In Italian with translation.

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WHITE, MINOR. (1908-1976). American photographer and co-founder of the influential photography magazine Aperture. TLS. (“Minor White”). 1p. 4to. N.p., March 9, 1970. To photographer Terry Wild.

“Mike Hoffman and I had a long look at your book of photos on Los Angeles. Both of us like it well enough, but in comparison to about 20 other portfolios we found no way of using any of the photographs in Aperture. I regret that this is so, because the images are well done, show a good scope of subject matter, and a lively interest in the city around you. What seems to be lacking is an intensity and an isolation that gives us your view of the world around you. I don’t know how long you have been photographing, but it seems to me that you have not found your center yet, consequently the work lacks a certain bite. Thank you very much for letting us see your work and we apologize for holding it so long. Best wishes for your continuing to grow in photography… P.S. The prints were sent separately on 11 March 1970.”

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WRIGHT, ORVILLE. (1871‑1948). American inventor and aviation pioneer who, with his brother Wilbur, completed the first sustained and piloted flight of a heavier-than-air machine. TLS. (“Orville Wright”). 1p. 4to. Dayton, November 10, 1921. To L.D. Gardner of Gardner, Moffat Company, publisher of the Aviation and Aircraft Journal from 1919 to 1921.

"I am returning enclosed the copies of Walcott’s and Manly’s replies to Brewer’s paper, which you kindly sent me. I am now in receipt of Mr. Brewer’s reply to these papers of Walcott, Zahm, Manly and Curtiss, which will be printed in the December issue of the Aeronautical Journal. I am seriously considering your suggestion to make some comment on the papers. I find that Walcott has fooled even Brewer, who, knowing the character of these men, was naturally on his guard. Walcott does not deny Brewer’s statement that only the cost of transportation of the machine to Hammondsport was paid by the Smithsonian, nor does he say that the Institution paid Curtiss $2,000, as Brewer understood him to say. This is another case, I think, of very skillful handling of English, which may be compared with the phrase in the National Advisory Committee recommendation to the President, which to the average reader appeared to recommend against a unified air service, but as a matter of fact does not, upon close examination of the wording. I must say I cannot help but admire Curtiss’ nerve. Only one with colossal nerve would dare to come out with the flat statements such as Curtiss makes, that the machine he flew at Hammondsport was the original Langley machine without any change except the addition of floats, when Walcott, Zahm and Manly admit the photographs prove that the changes mentioned by Brewer had been made in the machine. I note what you say in regard to the publication of Zahm’s reply in the Air Service magazine. I had not heard anything of this, but as Findley, the editor, has always been one of my dearest friends, I do not think that he will allow Zahm to get any unfair advantage in his paper.…"

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ZEPPELIN, FERDINAND. (1838-1917). German engineer who built the first dirigible. ALS. (“Gf. Zeppelin”). 2pp. 8vo. Berlin, March 19, 1901. To his secretary Ernst Uhland. In German with translation.

“Drygalski is unlikely to give 55 M. How much? – That I will find out from Major Klessmann. I reserve the right to decide whether we will accept his offer until after I have discussed it with you. I have no objections to giving away another 6–800 bottles, as I will have more containers from the department of aviation at my disposal in case there are further trials. But the rest I want to hold onto for the time being. I don’t foresee any news for the next few days. The anchors must not be raised. If the buoy has to be brought to land, it is crucial that precautions be taken that the cables not get lost on the bottom of the sea… Mr. Sigsfeld says wherever the document of the Aviation Dept. mentions ‘liter’ when referring to a material’s density, it should read ‘grams’ instead.”

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(1899-1961). American novelist; author of A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and other twentieth-century masterpieces; awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize for literature. TLS. (“Papa”). With holograph corrections and postscript. 1p. 4to. Finca Vigia, February 9, 1954. On his crimson Finca Vigia letterhead to Peter [screenwriter PETER VIERTEL (1920-2007), who wrote The Old Man and the Sea screen adaptation].“Here our life she has been rugged. Miguel called up and turned up about ten days ago. He said you treated him wonderfully and has great admiration for B. He was only going to stay 6 or 8 days. But I think he got to like the simplicity of our life which could be combined with the long distance telephone to all continents plus le staying out all night. Last night for instance he was going to a simple little affair like the closing of the Binealle Art Exposition with the Conde de Foxa leading Spanish Franco man at the Embassy who he’d invited out to lunch. 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(1732-1799). Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army in the American Revolution, signer of the Constitution and the first president of the United States. LS. (“G. Washington”). 2pp. Folio. White Plains, August 8, 1778. To South Carolina Lieutenant Colonel JOHN LAURENS (1754-1782), Washington’s aide-de-camp and son of the then president of the Continental Congress, Henry Laurens. Written in the hand of another aide-de-camp TENCH TILGHMAN (1744-1786) and delivered to Laurens in Providence, Rhode Island. Spelling has not been corrected. 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