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Accession Number: 87-867
Physical Description: [2] pages
Transcription:

Gad's Hill Place,

Higham by Rochester, Kent.

Tuesday Sixteenth June 1863.

My Dear Trollope.

I am delighted with Mrs. Trollope's excellent poem, which seems to me to be full of uncommon merit, and which I will get into A. Y. R. straightway. Pray tell her that I have read it with the greatest relish and admiration.

Only a day before I received your note, my daughters had been wondering when you would appear here to justify your high reputation in these parts as a Croquet-player. I assure you that the intelligence of your not meaning to come, this summer, has been received with a very genuine expression of disappointment. Mrs. Trollope might almost have been jealous if she had heard it.

I live in a dream of getting back to Italy; but I am always waking, and never knowing when I shall look on its beloved face again. When the dead season of London comes round, then I have house to keep here. and when I slip over to paris, I find that I am perpetually oscillating between Paris and London.

Very faithfully Yours

Charles Dickens

T. Adolphus Trollope Esqre.

MssDate: Tuesday Sixteenth June 1863
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Mrs. Trollope nee Theodosia Garrow (1825-65; DNB), poet, musician and translator. Married Trollope in April 1848; their home n Florence, the Villino Trollope, became a celebrated literary salon.

The poem to which Dickens refers is "The Judge and the Bishop," AYR, 4 July 63, IX, 449, a Browningesque narrative poem, in 16 irregular stanzas, set in the Italian town of Imola.

The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Ten, 1862-1864. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, p. 260.
 

Recipient: Trollope, Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892
Provenance: Sawyer 1960

Bibliography:

The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Ten, 1862-1864. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, p. 260.
 

Country: Creation Place Note:Gad's Hill Place
Country:England
City/Town/Township:Higham by Rochester, Kent

Creation Year: 1863
Call Number: DL T749t 1863-06-16
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author