Book Fairs

Paris International Antiquarian Book Fair (SLAM)

Thursday April 17th, 2008 - Sunday April 20th, 2008

Grand Palais

Avenue Winston Churchill, Paris

Contact > SLAM [Tel: 33 01 43 29 46 38]

Internet > http://www.salondulivreancienparis.fr

London Antiquarian Bookfair, Olympia (ABA)

Thursday June 5th, 2008 - Saturday June 7th, 2008

Olympia 2 Exhibition Centre

Hammersmith Road, Kensington, London

(3 day fair, Thursday to Saturday)

Contact > admin@aba.org.uk [Tel:             +44 (0)20 7439 3118       ]

Internet > http://www.olympiabookfair.com

Louis-Félicien-Joseph Caignart de SAULCY

Carnets de voyage en Orient (1845-1869), publiées avec une introduction, des notes critiques et des appendices par Fernande Bassan,
CAIGNART DE SAULCY

 Louis-Félicien-Joseph Caignart de Saulcy (1807-1880) fut admis en 1826 à l’Ecole polytechnique, il en sortit deux ans plus tard pour entrer à l’Ecole d’application de Metz. C’est là qu’il commença à se passionner pour les médailles et, devenu lieutenant d’artillerie, il réussit à mener de front ses obligations militaires et ses recherches d’archéologue et de numismate. Professeur de mécanique à l’Ecole de Metz, il publia des études sur les monnaies de la ville et de ses évêques et un Essai de classification des suites monétaires byzantines, résultat de ses travaux de classement d’une précieuse collection de médailles byzantines. En 1841, il devint conservateur du musée d’artillerie à Paris, et, l’année suivante, l’Académie des inscriptions lui ouvrit ses portes. Il se spécialisa alors dans l’épigraphie orientale et entreprit en 1845 un grand voyage archéologique avec La Saussaye à travers l’Italie, la Grèce, la Turquie et l’Egypte. Cinq ans plus tard, accompagné de son fils et d’Edouard Delessert, il se rendit en Palestine. On doit à Saulcy de nombreux travaux de numismatique, des récits de voyages, et l’animation, comme président, de la commission instituée pour publier la carte de l’ancienne Gaule, commission qui donna une impulsion très vive aux recherches d’archéologie gauloise et latine en France. Veuf de Mlle de Brye en 1850, Saulcy épousa en secondes noces le 20 décembre 1852, Mlle de Billing, fille du ministre de France à Copenhague, bientôt dame d’honneur de l’impératrice Eugénie. Fréquentant ainsi la cour et apprécié par Napoléon III, il fut nommé sénateur en novembre 1859. S’intéressant peu à la politique, il consacra tous ses loisirs à ses travaux d’érudition. A deux reprises, en 1863 et en 1869, il se rendit en Terre Sainte, et lorsqu’il s’éteignit en 1880, il rédigeait une description de sa collection de monnaies françaises de Philippe II à François

Consul

Creator(s):
Delaval family of Seaton Delaval, Northumberland

Delaval (Lord Waterford) MSS

   Deeds - ref. 2/DE/52/1-16

      FILE - Assignment - ref.  2/DE/52/13  - date: 1 December 1778
         [from Scope and Content] Of a sloop of 60 tons called [...] Good Love from William Hillcoat of Newcastle, consul to His Danish Majesty, to John H.Delaval, bart, for £97

   Family Settlements and bonds - ref. 2/DE/52/32 - 39

      FILE - Bond - ref.  2/DE/52/39  - date: 1 December 1778
         [from Scope and Content] Of indemnity in £194 of William Hillcoat of Newcastle, consul to his Danish Majesty, to Sir John H.Delaval bart.

Archives database

Hope I have time to enjoy searching here:

http://www.a2a.org.uk/default.asp

Wilkie Collins

The next known photographs were taken during Wilkie’s visit to the United States of America from September 1873 to March 1874. The image below was taken by a photographer called Warren, of 465 Washington Street in Boston during Collins’s visit there probably in October 1873 but possibly January 1874. Collins, born 8 January 1824, was 49 or 50 at this time. Some versions of this picture have Warren’s name and address clearly on the reverse and his name or initial on the front.

http://www.wilkie-collins.info/index.htm

1891

From http://www.c20th.com/GSarchive.htm

THE BASOCHE

Richard D’Oyly Carte’s second venture at his new opera house was La Basoche by Andre Messager. It opened on November 3rd 1891, and ran until Jan 16th of the following year, with a few Savoy regulars in the cast. Disillusioned by the project, Carte sold the theatre, which became the Palace Musical Hall, and later the Palace Theatre. This programme is dated for the 14th November 1891.

Cecil Crofton

Cecil Frederick Crofton (whose real name was Frederick Martin) was a versatile actor who appeared in a large variety of parts in the chief London theatres and the provinces, along with parts in pantomimes during the 1880s and 1890s.

 

From http://www.c20th.com/pics/gsd81s.jpg

And

For instance, at the Adelphi: 

http://www.emich.edu/public/english/adelphi_calendar/perfactr.htm

Frank Harris

Frank Harris with his book My Life and Loves scandalised Britain, Europe and America in the 1920s. Notwithstanding his reputation as a rogue and womaniser, he was an entertaining writer and individual who was always his own man.

1.   “The Fifth Volume of Frank Harris My Life and Loves”, An irreverent treatment by Alexander Trocchi

2.   My Life, vol 2, Frank Harris

Notes

Addresses: Villa et Boulevard Edouard VII Nice

Names: Alfred Russell Wallace

1881 in Argenteuil

Grosvenor Hotel London Gray’s Inn

Russell Lowell, American Ambassador

p.330 - “one winter Dilke lent me his villa at the Cap Brun near Toulon. I invited Percy Ffrench of Monivea, who had once been British Embassador at Madrid”

1889 - Robert Browning’s funeral  - the papers give the names of people who attended (for instance, Bret Harte)

Aimée Desclée

Frank Harris wrote a biography of Oscar Wilde (His Life and Confessions)

“Madame Laguerre, Marguerite Durant, a friend of mine years before 1888″ 

Oscar Wilde

Robbie Ross, Oscar’s true love, by Jonathan Fryer, 2000

Frank Harris wrote a biography of Oscar Wilde (His Life and Confessions)

p.56 “while in Paris, he completed his blank-verse play, “The Duchess of Padua”, and sent it to Miss Mary Anderson”

p.?? “Robert Ross gave me the particulars of his last illness… Early in November Ross left Paris… for Reggie Turner had undertaken to stay with Oscar”

p.?? “on Oct 25th my (Ross’s) brother Aleck came to see him … His sister-in-law Mrs Willie and her husband Teixeira on their honeymoon … Oscar was registered under the name of Melmoth…”

The Saturday Review…

Mr and Mrs Teixeira de Mattos

Reggie Turner

1901 lived - 10 Sheffield Gardens, Kensington

Reginald Turner, Castles in Kensington, 1910

Reggie by Stanley Weintraub, 1965

cf. “The Savoy: the nineties experiment”

Ladbroke Grove Road

One question from my long list of questions… 

88 Ladbroke Grove Road is this Ladbroke Road or Ladbroke Grove?…

Well, this photo is of Ladbroke Road. I am convinced that this is an important clue. It is probably the place where the woman in this story left her two babies when she first arrived in the UK. Maybe it was a sort of boarding school…

 

Album Cocteau

Album Cocteau.
Paris, Tchou, 1970.  XVII-252 pages, very many illustrations accompanied by new extracts of the Newspaper of Jean COCTEAU, chosen by Edouard DERMIT.

American in Paris

American footprints in Paris

A guide book of historical data pertaining to Americans in the French capital from the earliest days to the present times. Compiled by the assistant curator of the Musee Carnavalet, Paris, Francois Boucher. Translated, revised and edited, with a preface by Frances Wilson Huard.

New York: George H. Doran, [1921]. 7 3/8

Emile Brunel

Emile Brunel was the founder of the Brunel School of Photography. In addition to being a photographer, he was a sculptor and dabbled in the movie business.  He developed a one hour photography process long before others had even thought of doing this. He made a silent film called “The Hand of God” and later retired in the town of Boiceville, N.Y.  His home and farm in the Catskill Mountains, located about 100 miles from New York City, is surrounded by his large sculptures. He died on November 10, 1944 and his ashes are in the top of one of his sculptures.  His home is now  the Emile Brunel Studio and Sculpture Garden (Totem Indian Trading Post and  Museum) and is open to the public.

 From  http://www.ebrunelgallery.com/index.htm

Mary Cassatt

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1973/1/1973_1_10.shtml

http://www.mary-cassatt.org/pages/avant%20propos/uk/preface.html

James Whistler

James Abbott McNeill Whistler (July 11, 1834 – July 17, 1903) was an American-born, British-based painter and etcher. Averse to sentimentality in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo “art for art’s sake“. He took to signing his paintings with a stylized butterfly, possessing a long stinger for a tail.^[1] The symbol was apt, for Whistler’s art was characterized by a subtle delicacy, in contrast to his combative public persona. Finding a parallel between painting and music, Whistler titled many of his works ‘harmonies’ and ‘arrangements’.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNeill_Whistler

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/whistler/ 

http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/5aa/5aa257.htm

George du Maurier

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier (6 March 1834 – 8 October 1896) was a French-born British author and cartoonist.

He studied art in Paris, and moved to Antwerp, Belgium, where he lost vision in his left eye. He consulted an oculist in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he met his future wife, Emma Wightwick. He followed her family to London, where he married Emma in 1863.

He became a member of the staff of the satirical magazine Punch in 1865, drawing two cartoons a week. His most famous cartoon, “True Humility“, was the origin of the expressions “good in parts” and “a curate’s egg“. (In the original caption, a bishop addresses a curate [a very humble class of clergyman] whom he has condescended to invite to breakfast: ‘I’m afraid you’ve got a bad egg, Mr. Jones.’ The curate deprecatingly replies, ‘Oh no, my Lord, I assure you - parts of it are excellent!’) In an earlier (1884) cartoon, du Maurier had coined the expression ‘bedside manner’.

 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Louis_Palmella_Busson_du_Maurier

George Bancroft

George Bancroft (October 3, 1800 – January 17, 1891) was an American historian and statesman who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state and at the national level. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1845. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

From Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bancroft

 Married Mrs Bliss  -  http://query.nytimes.com/

Sisley Huddleston

Paris Salons, Cafes and Studios Being Social, Artistic and Literary Memories (Paperback)
by Sisley Huddleston (Author)  

Sisley Huddleston (1883–1952) was an English writer who adopted France as his home. Posted to Paris during the First World War, Huddleston became an expert in French politics and history. He also found time to socialise with and write about the literary and artistic expatriates of Paris, including Ford and Bowen. In fact, he was so often to be found at the famous English-language bookshop, “Shakespeare and Co.” that he was dubbed “Mr Shakespeare”.Huddleston was ambivalent about the social and political changes he witnessed in his beloved France after the First World War and came to sympathise with the emerging right wing movements of the 1930s. During the German occupation he remained in France and was a vocal supporter of the collaborationist Vichy Government, leading to his imprisonment after the Allied liberation. However, always a journalist, Huddleston continued to write throughout his public rise and fall.

 http://www.awm.gov.au/stella/detail.asp?period=3&id=13

Victorian books

http://www.sensationpress.com/

Paris – Asnières – Dog cemetery

The Cimetière des Chiens d’Asnières was officially opened for the public in the Summer of 1899. The gates were designed by the architect Eugene Petit in beautiful Art-nouveau style. The cemetery, with many centuries old trees growing in it, was divided into four areas: for dogs, for cats, for birds and for other animals.

 http://www.uitvaart.nl/thanosportal/index1.php?cid=52

FREDRICKS Charles De Forrest & DARIES

(1823-1894) Daguerrotipista norteamericano, discípulo de Jeremiah Gurney en New York. Desde 1843 hasta 1852 viajo por América Latina. Visitó Cuba, Venezuela, Brasil, Paraguay, Uruguay y Argentina. Entre 1848 y 1850 fue socio de George. Penabert y Saturnino Masoni. Recorrió el litoral argentino en donde retrató a los generales Justo José de Urquiza y Eugenio Garzón, en Corrientes. En 1852, de regreso en Bs. As, realizó algunas de las más tempranas vistas al daguerotipo de la ciudad, que se conservan. Tenía su estudio en la calle Piedad 98. En 1853 estuvo en París y en 1855 regresó a Nueva York para inaugurar en 1856, su propia galería en el 585 de Broadway, Nueva York, con el nombre de Fredricks Photographic Temple of Art. Además del estudio de Nueva York, tuvo sucursales en París, La Habana y Filadelfia. Llegó a realizar más de 150 retratos por día en su casa central. Murió en Nueva Jersey a la edad de 71 años.

http://www.geocities.com/alloni1/biografiaslatin.htm#14   

William Notman

Cf. fotógrafo Canadá: William Notman, Montreal-Toronto & Halifax

Mendelssohn, Hayman Selig

27 Cathcart Road, South Kens. S.W.

1883-88

14 Pembridge Crescent, Bayswater

1886-08-

Mendelssohn had been practising as a photographer in Newcastle before opening his South Kensington studio in June 1882 (Photographic News 30 June 1882). Of Polish extraction he took part in a Polish uprising before fleeing to London via Hamburg. On arrival he worked for the Downey studio before setting up on his own account (Photographic News 13 March 1891, p. 198).

Mendelssohn, Hayman Selig & Herman E.14 Pembridge Crescent W.1887

Edith Wharton

(January 24, 1862 – August 11, 1937)

American novelist, short story writer, and designer

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton

The Age of Innocence (1920) is a novel by Edith Wharton, which won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize. The story occurs among New York City’s upper class in the 1870s, before electricity, telephone, and automobiles; when there was a small cluster of old, “aristocratic” Revolutionary War-stock families who ruled New York’s social life; when being was better than doing; when occupation and abilities were secondary to blood connections (heredity and family); when reputation and appearances excluded every thing and every one not of one’s caste; and when Fifth Avenue was so deserted by nightfall that it was possible to follow Society’s comings and goings, by spying who went to what house.In 1920, The Age of Innocence was published twice; first in four parts, July–October, in the Pictorial Review magazine, and then by D. Appleton and Company as a book in New York and in London.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Innocence

Max Beerbohm

1. John Felstiner, The lies of art: Max Beerbohm’s parody and caricature.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. 

2. Max, a biography by David Cecil

3. Letters to Reggie Turner, ed. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964

When he published Zuleika Dobson, he got a note from Kilseen (1911?)

1907 - dined with miss g.c. who is in the dressmaking business

Places: Dieppe

4. Books: The Yellow Book

 Papers: Mrs Eva Reichmann, Estate of Sir Max Beerbohm

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/beerbohm.html#bio

Opening Suez Canal

Mr Russell of the Scotsman

Mr Simpson of the Illustrated London News

http://www.iln.org.uk/iln_years/year/1869.htm

Anna Caroline Steele

 Autograph note and pen and ink drawing signed to an unnamed correspondent

She has drawn a devil carrying a book engulfed by flames with a woman hand on head saying “What <?> & leave the world no copy”. She adds a “Quotation by the Saturday Review” “Go go to H- & say I sent thee thither”. She apologises for using half sheets and signs.

http://www.ilab.org/db/book2386_796.html

The editor of “The Englishwoman”

123, 124 & 125 Fleet Street, London

Lesbie, a study

Cloe Pink

His Cuban sweetheart

By Richard Henry Savage

and

Mrs A.C.Gunter

1869

Nineteenth Century Theatrical Memoirs

Claudia D. and Johnson, Vernon E. Johnson

Other info on theatre:

http://home.comcast.net/~m.chitty/index.html 

http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/bibliography3.html

John Hollingshead

John Hollingshead, 1827-1904

Nationality: English
Date of Birth: 9 September 1827
Place of Birth: Union Street, Hoxton
Date of Death: 9 October 1904
Place of Death: Fulham Road, London

John Hollingshead was a journalist and manager of the Gaiety theatre.

Bibliography:

Hollingshead, John, My Lifetime, 2 vols, London, 1895; Hollingshead, J., Gaiety Chronicles, London, 1898; Hollingshead, J., Good Old Gaiety, London, 1903; Young, Andrew McLaren, Margaret F. MacDonald, Robin Spencer and Hamish Miles, The Paintings of James McNeill Whistler, New Haven and London, 1980; MacDonald, Margaret F., James McNeill Whistler. Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours. A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 1995; Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, on-line edition (accessed 2004).

http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Holl_J.htm

Ellen Terry

Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, John Singer Sargent , 1889, Tate Gallery, London 

http://www.authorama.com/19th-century-actor-autobiographies-8.html

May 20th 1873, Madeleine Morel, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York

1928  -   The heart of Ellen Terry (author born 1854)   -         letters between  Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw. A correspondence.

(“let us tie ourselves together – close – and give some respectable boatman our last shilling to row us out and drop us into the sea”)

Clara Morris

STAGE CONFIDENCES

TALKS ABOUT PLAYERS AND PLAY ACTING

BY

CLARA MORRIS

AUTHOR OF “LIFE ON THE STAGE,” “THE PASTEBOARD CROWN,” ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

LONDON CHARLES H. KELLY

1902

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13277/13277-h/13277-h.htm

Revue des Deux Mondes

François Buloz crée, le 1er août 1829, la Revue des Deux Mondes. C’est la première revue moderne du XIXe siècle.

Dès 1830, elle accueille les idées pour la France en relation avec les autres pays d’Europe et tournée vers le monde. La Revue est bimensuelle, indépendante et favorable au suffrage universel. Elle déguise sa pensée de la société contemporaine sous des récits et essais historiques s’opposant à la censure du second Empire. La Revue des Deux Mondes privilégie, alors, la création littéraire et artistique (Baudelaire y publie pour la première fois les Fleurs du mal), les grandes interrogations politiques et les récits de voyage. Les principales signatures de l’époque écrivent dans la Revue.

C’est le cas de Abd el-Kader, Balzac, Baudelaire, Claude Bernard, Stendhal, Bourget, Chateaubriand, Benjamin Constant, Fenimore Cooper, Eugène Delacroix, Maxime du Camp, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Gérard de Nerval, Guizot, Thiers, Henri Heine, Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Ernest Lavisse, Mérimée, Michelet, Musset, Renan, Taine, Sainte-Beuve, George Sand, Tocqueville, Tourgueniev, Vigny…
En 1870, la Revue compte 16 000 abonnés. Son influence est considérable dans toute l’Europe.

http://www.revuedesdeuxmondes.fr/

Rhea, p.122

The so called 1890’s in London are very important also in the lives of these three people… 

The Romantic 90’s by Gallienne

In 1897, John Hay was named US ambassador to the UK 

Charles Dudley Warner

at http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/warner.htm 

Bret Harte, US Consul in Germany in June 1878 

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907), editor of Atlantic Monthly 1881-1890 

Stephen Crane, http://www.online-literature.com/crane/

About Paris

And this book also (where am I going to get the time for so many things I have to read

ADVENTURES AND LETTERS
OF
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS

 

 

 Richard Harding Davis (18 April 1864—11 April 1916) was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis, a managing editor of Harper’s Weekly, was one of the world’s leading war correspondents at the time of the Second Boer War in South Africa.

Taken from Wikipedia

This is a list of contents of one of his books taken from Questia

CONTENTS I. THE STREETS OF PARIS 1 II. THE SHOW-PLACES OF PARIS — NIGHT 47 III. PARIS IN MOURNING 98 IV. THE GRAND PRIX AND OTHER PRIZES 138 V. AMERICANS IN PARIS 177 -vii-

Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris

Pic taken from The New York Times Online

A book of memories or letters might also be very important in finding out things about ‘unimportant’ people like the ones I am researching…

This one for instance, I’ll have to look up one of these days.

John Joseph Conway, Footprints of Famous Americans in Paris
London, John Lane the Bodley Head. 1912, 1 St UK

Marie Marthe Camille Desinge du Gast

Any event or person related to Paris around 1900 will certainly help my research. For instance, about Camille du Gast, the first woman to be a racing driver and also was good at 

ballooning, fencing, parachuting, tobogganing, shooting with rifle and pistol and mountaineering …

Born Marie Marthe Camille Desinge du Gast. du Gast was in fact her maiden name which she retained in her various sporting adventures. Green eyed, fair haired, buxom and stunningly attractive, Camille had a great sense of humour and a magnetic smile that most men found irresistible. She was determined to get her way and do what she wanted, regardless of convention or authority.

In later life she worked at the refuge for stray and injured dogs that started in Paris in 1903 by Gordon Bennett. Later she became president of the French Anti-Cruelty to Animals Society (SPA) and campaigned against bullfighting. She also worked with the poor, establishing centres for orphans and impoverished women. She continued her work even after the German occupation of Paris and continued to live there helping the poor as always until her death in 1942.

This and more can be found

@ http://www.historicracing.com

The picture below shows Madame du Gast racing with her husband as co-pilot.

http://www.escuderia.com/webar07.htm

Following footprints

The tale is vey simple and just like all the other million of tales. It begins with a mother who one day leaves her home and husband, taking her two babies, daughter and son, with her,  and starts off on a long wandering journey… Before I can tell this tale with all the names and ages and events in it, and the main reason why I am telling it, or why it is important, I have to find out answers to lots of questions that I still haven’t quite figured out… If I ever figure out this puzzle I’ll tell the story of these three people. For the time being I will follow their footprints. They have died a long time ago. Each post that follows is related in some or other way to one of them. If you enjoy surfing around, please take your time and, who knows, you might help me find more footprints to follow