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Accession Number: 87-866
Physical Description: [1] page
Transcription:

Office of All the Year Round

Thursday Eighteenth September 1862.

My Dear Trollope.

The Dutchess Veronica is most admirable--a masterly picture, painted with knowledge, and Art, and Everything to make it glowing and striking.

I have begged Wills to send you the proofs, in order that I may have your approval (or disapproval) of some excisions I have made on the New Year's Morning. It struck me strongly that some of La Maladetta Veronica's solioquy on that horrible day, anticipated and weakened the catastrophe. Hence my endeavour to preserve for the catastrophe its full power and force.

Ever Believe me

(Very hastily at this present)

Faithfully Yours

Charles Dickens

T.A. Trollope Esquire

MssDate: Thursday Eighteenth September 1862
Media Type: Letters
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Dutchess Veronica: five installments, AYR, 4 Oct--1 Nov 62, VIII, 88-192.

The final installment was "New Year's Day at Villa Salviati" and "The Majesty of the Law."

As they stand, the Duchess's two soliloquies (p. 190) only hint at the horrible revenge carried out of her unfaithful husband: her placing of the head of his mistress in the silver linen-basin she has delivered to him (p. 191).

(The British Academy Pilgrim Edition: The Letters of Charles Dickens, Volume Ten, 1862-1864. Graham Storey, ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, p. 127)

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. 127.

Country: Creation Place Note:Office of All the Year Round
Country:England
City/Town/Township:London

Creation Year: 1862
Call Number: DL T749t 1862-09-18
Creator Name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 - Author