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The True Story of Lee Israel and the Literary Forgeries in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
The real story – and autographs dealer – behind Can You Ever Forgive Me’s forgeries
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? – HERE’S THE UNFORGED TRUTH
French museums swoop on books, letters and manuscripts at the mammoth auction series of the Aristophil collection

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Frida Kahlo Love Letters Sell for $137,000 at Doyle NY

on Thursday, 16 April 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

April 15, 2015 Auction Featured 25 Unpublished Love Letters Written by Frida Kahlo to Spanish Artist Jose Bartoli Between 1946-1949

Frida Kahlo Biographer Hayden Herrera Has Written an Essay Profiling the Letters and Their Significance.

President Harding’s steamy love letters with Carrie Phillips to go on display

on Saturday, 05 July 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

By Michael E. Ruane

On Christmas Eve, 1910, future president Warren G. Harding got out a photograph of himself, and on the back wrote an impassioned love note to his mistress.

V&A buys Vivien Leigh archive

on Wednesday, 14 August 2013. Posted in General Autograph News

Unseen photographs, diaries and letters to Laurence Olivier made available to the public

Vivien Leigh's archive - including letters sent to husband Laurence Olivier and diaries written until just before the Gone With The Wind star's death - have been acquired by the V&A.

Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife

on Friday, 02 January 2015. Posted in General Autograph News

Grandson of Irish dramatist has unearthed medical evidence in private family letters which points to likely cause of death

Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife

The sudden death of the wife of Oscar Wilde at the tender age of 40 has long been a mystery. In the 116 years since she met her tragic end, speculative theories have ranged from spinal damage following a fall down stairs to syphilis caught from her husband. Now the mystery may have been solved.

Shaken and stirred: letters reveal Ian Fleming's tempestuous first love

on Wednesday, 26 March 2014. Posted in General Autograph News

In letters from early 1930s to Edith Morpurgo, Fleming writes: 'I would like to hurt you because you have earned it'

Shaken and stirred: letters reveal Ian Fleming's tempestuous first love

It might sound more Fifty Shades of Grey than 007, but a series of letters by a young Ian Fleming to his Austrian lover see the man who would go on to create James Bond detailing how he would like "to hurt you because you have earned it and in order to tame you like a little wild animal".

The Case of the Disappearing Documents

on Friday, 30 September 2011. Posted in General Autograph News

By ELLEN GAMERMAN

One collector's love for presidential memorabilia lasted decades—and led to an indictment roiling a cloistered world..

At age 10, Barry Landau wrote a letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower, admiring his "very beautiful" wife and offering his assessment of where the general stood in the country's pantheon of great leaders. "I think you lived the most exciting and the most interesting life then [sic] any other President of our United States," according to a copy of the letter released by the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum.

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Autograph Collecting at Monaco Grand Prix 2011

Every year the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco is the amazing Highlight of the season. It is like a paradise, where you can collect autographs. There are many opportunities to meet the stars. E.g. at the charity soccer match, around the many yachts in the harbor, at the Hugo Boss-Party or at a prêt-a-porter. There is always something an amazement!
Julio Iglesias visited Budapest and signed autographs

25 years after his first concert in Budapest, Spanish pop star Julio Iglesias visited our capitol yesterday in his current tour.
NBA Global Games 2014 in Berlin

NBA Global Games 2014 in Berlin was great opportunity for basketball fans to obtain autographs from members of NBA Champions San Antonio Spurs. A game was planned on 8th October, but the team already arrived to Berlin on 5th October. I came to capitol of Germany 1 day later. It gave me more than a 2 days to collect. Players, coaches and stuff stayed in The Ritz Carlton Hotel, well-situated in the city centre, not so far Grosser Tiergarten or Brandenburg Tor, what furthered to coming out of hotel.
Collecting at Hockenheim 2010

Jenson Button:

He wrote one autograph per meeting an colletor. More is simply not possible to get from a current World Champion. But never the less he was very kind and in a good mood.

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Articles tagged with: letters

Frida Kahlo Love Letters Sell for $137,000 at Doyle NY

President Harding’s steamy love letters with Carrie Phillips to go on display

By Michael E. Ruane

V&A buys Vivien Leigh archive

Unseen photographs, diaries and letters to Laurence Olivier made available to the public

Letters unravel mystery of the death of Oscar Wilde’s wife

Grandson of Irish dramatist has unearthed medical evidence in private family letters which points to likely cause of death

Shaken and stirred: letters reveal Ian Fleming's tempestuous first love

In letters from early 1930s to Edith Morpurgo, Fleming writes: 'I would like to hurt you because you have earned it'

The Case of the Disappearing Documents

By ELLEN GAMERMAN

Hunting Channel

Autograph Collecting at Monaco Grand Prix 2011

Julio Iglesias visited Budapest and signed autographs

NBA Global Games 2014 in Berlin

Collecting at Hockenheim 2010

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