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TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Autograph manuscript of his book North America, [published 1862], with numerous revisions, deletions and corrections in the text, the printers' copy, with some characteristic pencilled markings. 2 vols., 4to, comprising 1,166 pages plus a manuscript title by Trollope: "North America published 1862 by Chapman & Hall," written in ink on rectos and versos of sheets of good quality writing paper, manuscript title a bit soiled, some fore-margins lightly dust-soiled, red straight-grained morocco, covers gilt-ruled, spine gilt and gilt-lettered in compartments, inner dentelles gilt, by Riviere & Son, edges rubbed. With a copy of the first edition of North America, London, 1862, 2 vols., 8vo, original maroon cloth, uncut, worn, inner hinges cracked, with fold-out map.
THE NOVELIST'S VIEW OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE CIVIL WAR
Trollope visited North America on furlough from his official duties as a postal inspector from August 1861 to April 1862. Twenty years earlier, Frances Trollope, the novelist's mother, had published a broadly humorous description of American society, The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1831), which had aroused widespread protests from American readers, partly for her outspokenness on the evil of slavery.
Trollope explains in his Introduction that, "it has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States...I have not allowed the division among the States and breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intentions...My secret wish is to describe as well as I can the present social and political state of the country...." He alludes to the success of his mother's book on the subject, but notes that it was "essentially a woman's book," in that she did not try to explain "the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had produced the social absurdities which she saw," those being "the natural result of those arrangements in their newness...." He hopes to "add to the good feeling which ought to exist" between the two nations. Objectivity is elusive, though, and "ridicule and censure run easily from the pen, and form themselves into sharp paragraphs which are pleasant to the reader," while a eulogy is "immensely dull."
Trollope speaks of his pre-conceptions regarding the Secession of the South, confessing that he "blamed [President James] Buchanan as a traitor for allowing the Germ of secession to take any growth," but had also "blamed Lincoln, or rather the Government of which Mr. Lincoln is no more than the exponent, for his efforts to avoid that which was inevitable." Now, though, he does "not see how the North...could have submitted to Secession without resistance."
Trollope's chapter titles give an accurate sense of the book's breadth and of the extent of his travels. Vol. 1: Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Newport, Rhode Island; Chapter 3; Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; Chapter 4: Lower Canada [including Montreal and Quebec]; Chapter 5; Upper Canada; Chapter 6: The connection of the Canadas with Great Britain; Chapter 7: Niagara; Chapter 8: North and West; Chapter 9: From Niagara to the Mississippi [including St. Paul, Minnesota]; Chapter 10: The Upper Mississippi (Iowa); Chapter 11: Ceres Americana; Chapter 12: Buffalo to New York; Chapter 13: New York; Chapter 14: The Constitution of the State of New York; Chapter 16: Boston; Chapter 17: Cambridge and Lowell [including much on Harvard College]; Chapter 18: The Rights of Women; Chapter 19: Education; Chapter 20: From Boston to Washington [including Baltimore). Vol. 2: Chapter 1: Washington; Chapter 2: Congress; Chapter 3: The Lances of War [entirely on the Civil War]; Chapter 4: Washington to St. Louis; Chapter 5: Missouri; Chapter 6: Cairo to Campwood; Chapter 7: The Army of the North; Chapter 8: Back to Boston; Chapter 9: The Constitution of the United States; Chapter 10: The Government; Chapter 11: Law Courts & Lawyers; Chapter 12: The Financial Position; Chapter 13: The Post Office; Chapter 14: American Hotels; Chapter 15: Literature [with much on Dickens's reputation]; Chapter 16: Conclusion.
Provenance: The Grolier Club, New York, 25 September 1949--Estate of Pamela G. Reilly (sale, Christie's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 311). (4)
THE NOVELIST'S VIEW OF CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES DURING THE CIVIL WAR
Trollope visited North America on furlough from his official duties as a postal inspector from August 1861 to April 1862. Twenty years earlier, Frances Trollope, the novelist's mother, had published a broadly humorous description of American society, The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1831), which had aroused widespread protests from American readers, partly for her outspokenness on the evil of slavery.
Trollope explains in his Introduction that, "it has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States...I have not allowed the division among the States and breaking out of civil war to interfere with my intentions...My secret wish is to describe as well as I can the present social and political state of the country...." He alludes to the success of his mother's book on the subject, but notes that it was "essentially a woman's book," in that she did not try to explain "the nature and operation of those political arrangements which had produced the social absurdities which she saw," those being "the natural result of those arrangements in their newness...." He hopes to "add to the good feeling which ought to exist" between the two nations. Objectivity is elusive, though, and "ridicule and censure run easily from the pen, and form themselves into sharp paragraphs which are pleasant to the reader," while a eulogy is "immensely dull."
Trollope speaks of his pre-conceptions regarding the Secession of the South, confessing that he "blamed [President James] Buchanan as a traitor for allowing the Germ of secession to take any growth," but had also "blamed Lincoln, or rather the Government of which Mr. Lincoln is no more than the exponent, for his efforts to avoid that which was inevitable." Now, though, he does "not see how the North...could have submitted to Secession without resistance."
Trollope's chapter titles give an accurate sense of the book's breadth and of the extent of his travels. Vol. 1: Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Newport, Rhode Island; Chapter 3; Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont; Chapter 4: Lower Canada [including Montreal and Quebec]; Chapter 5; Upper Canada; Chapter 6: The connection of the Canadas with Great Britain; Chapter 7: Niagara; Chapter 8: North and West; Chapter 9: From Niagara to the Mississippi [including St. Paul, Minnesota]; Chapter 10: The Upper Mississippi (Iowa); Chapter 11: Ceres Americana; Chapter 12: Buffalo to New York; Chapter 13: New York; Chapter 14: The Constitution of the State of New York; Chapter 16: Boston; Chapter 17: Cambridge and Lowell [including much on Harvard College]; Chapter 18: The Rights of Women; Chapter 19: Education; Chapter 20: From Boston to Washington [including Baltimore). Vol. 2: Chapter 1: Washington; Chapter 2: Congress; Chapter 3: The Lances of War [entirely on the Civil War]; Chapter 4: Washington to St. Louis; Chapter 5: Missouri; Chapter 6: Cairo to Campwood; Chapter 7: The Army of the North; Chapter 8: Back to Boston; Chapter 9: The Constitution of the United States; Chapter 10: The Government; Chapter 11: Law Courts & Lawyers; Chapter 12: The Financial Position; Chapter 13: The Post Office; Chapter 14: American Hotels; Chapter 15: Literature [with much on Dickens's reputation]; Chapter 16: Conclusion.
Provenance: The Grolier Club, New York, 25 September 1949--Estate of Pamela G. Reilly (sale, Christie's New York, 8 December 1989, lot 311). (4)