It took twenty minutes for him to weave his way through the crowd to the autograph table.
They found three letters with his signature; collectors were very excited to have these instances of his autograph.
His autograph manuscripts and his large and valuable library passed to his eldest son, Philippe du Fresne, who died unmarried in 1692.
The writer's autograph, if it is preserved after it has been through the hands of the printer, has seldom more than an antiquarian value.
The circle of autograph hunters around us didn't distract him.
