The Charles Dickens Letters Project

To THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE,1 8 NOVEMBER 1867

Extract in Heritage Bookshop catalogue, 2002; addressed T. A. Trollope; dated 8 Nov 1867.

OFFICE OF ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

8 November 18672

Thanking Trollope for his kind note and reminding him that he has already sent his love via Trollope’s brother Anthony.3

• 1. Thomas Adolphus Trollope ("Tom"; 1810-92; Dictionary of National Biography), elder brother of the novelist Anthony Trollope; prolific writer; Winchester scholar and BA Magdalen, Oxford, 1835; settled with his mother in Florence since 1843; on his marriage to Theodosia Garrow (1825-65), bought and rebuilt what became known as the Villino Trollope, Piazza Maria Antonia, which became the meeting-place for the literary coterie in Florence, including Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and visitors such as George Henry Lewes and George Eliot. Contributed to All the Year Round 1859-62 and became a warm friend of CD. Of his c. 60 books, many were based on Italian and especially Tuscan history and politics; he was a strong supporter of the Italian revolutionary movement. On his first wife's death in Apr 1865, he moved to the Villa Ricorboli, outside Florence, and in Oct 1866 married Frances Eleanor Ternan (1835-1913), eldest sister of CD’s lover Ellen Ternan. For short period correspondent of the Daily News in Italy; in 1873 of the Standard in Rome. Returned to England in 1890. Published his reminiscences, What I Remember (3 vols; London: R. Bentley & Son, 1887, 1889).
• 2. CD was about to set off to America on his reading tour (9 Nov). He had already given Wills Trollope’s address in Italy as a contact for Ellen Ternan: see Pilgrim Letters 11, pp. 474-5.
• 3. Anthony Trollope (1815-82; Dictionary of National Biography), writer: see Pilgrim Letters 10, p. 258 and n.