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Please send £20.00 (£30.00 / U.S.$55.00 overseas, airmail) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. ANTHONY TROLLOPE, 1815-1882 ISBN: 978 1 910156 04 9 Price £5.00 Front cover: item 8; back cover: item 9 Brian Lake Janet Nassau trollope cata 213.indd 1 02/04/2015 14:17:25 TROLLOPE FAMILY THE TROLLOPE FAMILY The Anthony Trollope bicentenary catalogue is divided into three main sections, the first and largest of which is devoted to Anthony Trollope, 1815-1882. The second section contains works by Anthony’s mother, Frances Milton Trollope, 1779-1863; the final section contains works by Anthony’s older brother, Thomas Adolphus Trollope, 1810-1892. Bibliographical works cited in this catalogue are as follows: THE TROLLOPE SOCIETY: Anthony Trollope: A collector’s catalogue 1847-1990. 1992. (TSC) SADLEIR, Michael: Trollope: A bibliography. 1928. (Sadleir) SADLEIR, Michael: XIX Century Fiction: A bibliographical record. 1969. (Sadleir XIXC) SMITH, Walter E.: Anthony Trollope: A bibliography of his first American editions. 2003. (Smith) TODD, William B. & BOWDEN, Ann: Tauchnitz International Editions in English 1841-1955. 1988. (Todd) TOPP, Chester W.: Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905. 1992-2007. (Topp) WOLFF, Robert Lee: Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A bibliographical catalogue. 1985. (Wolff) AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & CARTES DE VISITE TROLLOPE, Anthony POST OFFICE PROCEDURE 1. ALS to ‘My Dear Kate’ from Waltham House, Feb. 9. 1864. n.p. 37 lines, in blue ink, over two sides of single 8vo leaf. v.g. ¶Not published in The Letters, 1983. Trollope, as a senior administrator for the post office, writes to ‘Dear Kate’ (this may be Kate Field), in response to a solicitation for a position of work for a third party. He informs his correspondent, ‘as regards the competition examination, there is no favour. It is not done at the post office. There is a separate office for this work at Westminster, and there is no regard whatsoever to the mode in which the cards have been nominated’. Although his hands are tied with respect of securing a post, he does suggest that his influence counts for something once a position is offered: ‘ ... if he be successful ... we may do much in ‘calling him’ into a good part of the establishment instead of a bad part’. He adds, ‘I will ... also speak to Mr Tilley about him ... and you may be sure he shall be kindly looked after’. Trollope ends by encouraging the prospective employee to ‘come to us’, and adds that he would have an ‘excellent friend in Mr Scudamore’. Frank Scudamore was a post office administrator, and was promoted to assistant secretary of the organisation (much to Trollope’s annoyance, as he felt he been overlooked for the position) later in 1864. John Tilley, Post Office official, and close friend of Trollope. He was married to Trollope’s sister Cecilia until her death in 1849. 1864 £1,200 † trollope cata 213.indd 2 02/04/2015 14:17:25 TROLLOPE FAMILY 2. ALS to ‘My Dear Mr Virtue’ from Waltham House, Aug 23, 1867. n.p. 12 lines, in black ink, on one side of 8vo leaf, laid down. v.g. ¶Not published in The Letters, 1983. Trollope writes to the publisher James Virtue, expressing relief that an undisclosed problem has been resolved. He tells Virtue, ‘I am very glad that that dreadful depredator has not succeeded in robbing us of our excellent & holy name’. On the prospect of further complications, he states ‘I trust that all coming attacks against us may be brought to grief as readily.’ The letter is signed ‘Yours always Anthony Trollope’. Virtue began publishing Saint Pauls Magazine, in October, edited by Trollope; the letter refers to problems prior to its launch, presumably relating to the name of the periodical itself. 1867 £1,200 † FROM MILLAIS TO TROLLOPE ILLUSTRATING SAINT PAULS MAGAZINE 3. MILLAIS, John Everett. ALS from Millais to ‘Dear Trollope’, from 7 Cromwell Place, South Kensington, 22 Aug 1867. n.p. 37 lines, in blue ink, over two sides of single 8vo leaf. v.g. ¶Millais writes to Anthony Trollope in response to a request to design a front wrapper for Saint Pauls Magazine, which was soon to be launched. He evidently had much on his plate, as he informs Trollope, ‘A sight of my work is enough to dispel all hope of producing a cover, - I have had to undo 2 days work this morning, and I am dead tired. You know I have every wish to please you but the St Pauls is a very heavy straw to put upon a weary Camels back.’ He suggests in his place that [Frederick] Walker or [George] Dumaurier ‘could do the thing admirably’. He advises Trollope ‘all you want is the upper part of [St. Paul’s] Cathedral appearing above a fog on which the title appears’. Beneath this description he has drawn a sketch of the front wrapper as he imagines it, the dome of the cathedral indeed emerging from a fog with the titles beneath. He suggests, ‘the cover might be a tinder grey with the letters in bright scarlet - two colours which go well together’. He signs the letter ‘J Everett Millais’, before adding by way of a postscript, ‘the lines of the cathedral are so fine looking ... that the cover will always look solid & respectable ...’. See also item 275. 1867 £2,800 † JOHN MORLEY TO HENRY TROLLOPE CONCERNING ‘THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS’ 4. MORLEY, John. ALS to ‘My Dear [Henry Merivale] Trollope’, from Flexford House, March 20.71. n.p. 28 lines, in blue ink, over two sides of single 8vo leaf. v.g. ¶An engaging letter from the literary editor John Morley, to Henry Merivale Trollope, Anthony Trollope’s son, on the subject of the serialisation of Anthony Trollope’s latest work, The Eustace Diamonds. He informs Henry, ‘I think the MS. interesting & important - but I am choked with stuff, and don’t know how to clear myself up, as housemaids say, within the next six months’. Morley was, as editor of the Fortnightly Review, part way through publishing a work by Frances Eleanor Trollope, Anthony’s sister-in-law and Henry’s aunt. Morley asks Henry if he ‘wd. be so kind as to ask Mrs Trollope about the end of Anne Furness. The sooner it winds up the better for us, if, as I hope, we begin your father’s in July. We have in ty/sc almost if not quite ample to fill up the two numbers after April. So it is time to move.’ The serialisation of Anne Furness eventually finished in August 1871. It overlapped by a month with The Eustace Diamonds, which was published from July 1871 - February 1873. Henry Trollope trained as a lawyer, and was called to the Bar in 1869. He declined to practise though, instead, with the assistance of his father, procuring a partnership in the Chapman & Hall publishing house. On this subject Morley had a direct interest, as in 1871 he published, through Chapman & Hall, Critical Miscellanies. Sales had evidently been slow, with Morley challenging him on the price asked for the book: ‘Surely 14/s is a monstrous high price for my ... volume’. He concedes that he is ‘ignorant of the considerations which regulate such matters’, and that ‘a publisher knows his business better than I’, but still suggests that had the volume been offered at 10/6 ‘twice as many’ would have sold. Morley concludes by commenting, ‘If you sell 300 at this price, I shall be excessively surprised - and my vanity tickled in like proportion’. 1871 £500 † trollope cata 213.indd 3 02/04/2015 14:17:25 TROLLOPE FAMILY TROLLOPE, Frances FRANCES TO MISS STEVENS 5. ALS to ‘Miss Stevens’ at 173 Corso, from an unknown location, dated only ‘Wednesday morning’. n.p. 26 lines, in black ink, on first two sides of folded 16mo leaf.