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The True Story of Lee Israel and the Literary Forgeries in Can You Ever Forgive Me?
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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April 15, 2015 Auction Featured 25 Unpublished Love Letters Written by Frida Kahlo to Spanish Artist Jose Bartoli Between 1946-1949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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Collecting autographs at Spa-Francorchamps, F1 GP Belgium, 2013

The autograph collecting at Spa was tough but all in all successful.
Autograph hunting at Cannes Film Festival 2011

Bye Bye Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan and Welcome to Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Bernardo Bertulocci and many others...
In-Person autograph experience at Hockenheim 2008

Michael Schumacher:
He was very relaxed. Wrote comparatively much, but still hard to collect. One has to know where he is staying at which time. One evening he was playing poker with Kubica, Heidfeld, Fisichella, Rosberg, Briatore and Ecclestone. He finished the game at 1 o’clock in the morning. Then we got the nicest signatures ever.
F1 GP Spa-Francorchamps 2010

Jenson Button:
Jenson was escorted by his girlfriend and very relaxed. He wrote one autograph per meeting.

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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

Collecting autographs at Spa-Francorchamps, F1 GP Belgium, 2013

Autograph hunting at Cannes Film Festival 2011

In-Person autograph experience at Hockenheim 2008

F1 GP Spa-Francorchamps 2010

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