ANTHONY TROLLOPE’S ELDER BROTHER WRITING ABOUT A SALE OF HIS CHATTELS TROLLOPE (Thomas Adolphus, 1810-1892, Author)

Autograph Letter Signed to “Dear Mr Powers” asking him to “kindly send me by the post the account of the photographs, I will send you the money for the same. I am very busy preparing for the sale of my chattels on the 5th of November next. If you can tell any of your friends in Italy or America that there will be things worth looking after both in books, prints, artistic things, and ancient furniture, you will do me a favour. Many catalogues will be sent to America, (on the 15 of August) and if you know any names to whom it would be useful to send them, and would tell me, I would take care that they were sent...”, 1 side 8vo., Ricorboli, 24th May

Thomas Adolphus Trollope was the author of more than 60 books. He lived most of his life in Italy. Anthony Trollope was his younger brother. Trollope married twice; his first wife was the writer Theodosia Garrow who was staying with his mother, Fanny Trollope in Florence when they met. His second wife was the novelist Frances Eleanor Ternan. Her younger sister Ellen Ternan became the mistress of Charles Dickens and because of his intercession she was recommended as a prospective governess to the child of his widowed friend Thomas Trollope, following the death of his wife Theodosia. Ternan soon married him despite an age difference of 25 years.
The recipient if almost certainly Hiram POWERS (1805-1873) who was an American neoclassical sculptor. He was one of the first 19th-century American artists to gain an international reputation, largely based on his famous marble sculpture The Greek Slave. Fanny Trollope helped launch his career when she had him sculpt Dante's Commedia. In 1837 he moved to Italy and settled on the Via Fornace in Florence, where he had access to good supplies of marble and to traditions of stone-cutting and bronze casting. He remained in Florence till his death.

Item Date:  1872

Stock No:  42752      £375

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