TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Autograph manuscript signed of "Letter XVIII." [Sydney, Australia, late August 1875]. 9 pages, 4to, in ink, on rectos, pages 1-5 on a kind of carbon copy tissue "multiplying paper," pages 6-9 an original on laid paper watermarked "Towgoods Extra Super," about 3300 words, a few corrections/revisions on most pages, each leaf marked "Duplicate" at upper right corner, a marginal chip in first leaf affecting a letter , signed by Trollope at bottom of page 9 and docketed by him on verso: "Letter No. 18. Duplicate. Death of Commodore Goodenough"; with a galley proof of ""Letter XVIII," 1 page, long folio, printed in double columns, with a few typographical corrections, some marginal tears; in a green morocco portfolio, gilt-lettered. For his around-the-world trip of 1875, Trollope had contracted with the London publisher Nicholas Trübner to provide a series of 20 travel letters to be published by a number of subscribing newspapers. In a letter to Trübner (Auckland, 3 September 1875) sending this "Letter XVIII," Trollope writes: "You will observe that the one I send now is written half on the multiplying paper and half on other paper. The black paper has become unfit for use [Trübner had supplied him with a "manifold writer"]. I got other in Melbourne, but it was of no service" ( Letters , ed. B.A. Booth, 1951 ed., no. 596 -- in the Parrish Collection at Princeton, as are the other letters to Trübner regarding this series). Trollope's "Letter XVIII" is an absorbing account of the killing of Commodore Goodenough by natives of the Santa Cruz islands and a discussion of British policy towards the South Sea Islands: "...It is certain that we do not mean to take possession of those lands for our own purposes -- as we have done in Australia and New Zealand; in which, though our coming has exterminated, or will soon exterminate the natives, even so sad a result as that is justified to our consciences by the opening of new homes to men of high races. If we had all the islands lying within the tropics we could not find in them a fitting domicile for a single European...At present it seems that we do not quite know what to do, and that we drift into the possession of undesirable, so-called colonies. Perhaps the unfortunate loss [the death of Commodore Goodenough] which I have just recorded may lead to some fixed and definite policy in the matter." The 20 letters were published in the Liverpool Mercury , and probably other provincial papers as well; they were collected in The Tireless Traveler , ed. B.A. Booth (Berkeley, Cal., 1941).
TROLLOPE, ANTHONY. Autograph manuscript signed of "Letter XVIII." [Sydney, Australia, late August 1875]. 9 pages, 4to, in ink, on rectos, pages 1-5 on a kind of carbon copy tissue "multiplying paper," pages 6-9 an original on laid paper watermarked "Towgoods Extra Super," about 3300 words, a few corrections/revisions on most pages, each leaf marked "Duplicate" at upper right corner, a marginal chip in first leaf affecting a letter , signed by Trollope at bottom of page 9 and docketed by him on verso: "Letter No. 18. Duplicate. Death of Commodore Goodenough"; with a galley proof of ""Letter XVIII," 1 page, long folio, printed in double columns, with a few typographical corrections, some marginal tears; in a green morocco portfolio, gilt-lettered. For his around-the-world trip of 1875, Trollope had contracted with the London publisher Nicholas Trübner to provide a series of 20 travel letters to be published by a number of subscribing newspapers. In a letter to Trübner (Auckland, 3 September 1875) sending this "Letter XVIII," Trollope writes: "You will observe that the one I send now is written half on the multiplying paper and half on other paper. The black paper has become unfit for use [Trübner had supplied him with a "manifold writer"]. I got other in Melbourne, but it was of no service" ( Letters , ed. B.A. Booth, 1951 ed., no. 596 -- in the Parrish Collection at Princeton, as are the other letters to Trübner regarding this series). Trollope's "Letter XVIII" is an absorbing account of the killing of Commodore Goodenough by natives of the Santa Cruz islands and a discussion of British policy towards the South Sea Islands: "...It is certain that we do not mean to take possession of those lands for our own purposes -- as we have done in Australia and New Zealand; in which, though our coming has exterminated, or will soon exterminate the natives, even so sad a result as that is justified to our consciences by the opening of new homes to men of high races. If we had all the islands lying within the tropics we could not find in them a fitting domicile for a single European...At present it seems that we do not quite know what to do, and that we drift into the possession of undesirable, so-called colonies. Perhaps the unfortunate loss [the death of Commodore Goodenough] which I have just recorded may lead to some fixed and definite policy in the matter." The 20 letters were published in the Liverpool Mercury , and probably other provincial papers as well; they were collected in The Tireless Traveler , ed. B.A. Booth (Berkeley, Cal., 1941).
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