SD2410. Anthony Trollope to George Murray Smith
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 28, 360–361 (in part).
Waltham
Novr. 10. 1860.
My dear Smith.
I shall be in London on Tuesday & will call to settle the important question as to the young lady’s copy of the A. Nights. Will you kindly send in to Milroy, telling him not to pack the box till I call.
Thanks for the letter about Miss Blagden’s book. I do not suppose you will make a fortune by it;—nor, I suppose, will she. Can you say when it will be published; and also can I tell her that she may have the sum which the American publisher will give for sheets? Do not forget that she wants to describe the novel as by
Ivory Beryl.
I have completed Mrs. Talboys. My wife, criticising it, says that it is ill-natured. I would propose you should call it
Mrs. General Talboys.
—I hope & trust that there is not & never has been any real General of that name. If so we must alter it. I shall hereafter call it “Mrs. Talboys at Rome”—but you will probably choose to sink the Rome, as you have an article in the same number about the eternal city.
Mr. Tilley will leave the Mss at the paper on Monday morning. It is addressed to you privately. I suppose you can let me [have] a proof in duplicate.
Yours always
Anty Trollope
Publication: The Letters of Anthony Trollope, ed. N. John Hall (Stanford, 1983), p. 125.
Manuscript: Bodleian Library.
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