ANTHONY TROLLOPE
Sir-aIn your issue of January 30 I am afraid you do less than justice to Anthony Trollope in the matter of pil-lar-boxes. To him we owe, not merely the colour, but the pillar-box itself. T. H. S. Escott, a contemporary and friend, who gathered much information from Trollope’s Post Office associates, says Trollope’ recommended the installation of these useful innovations after seeing them in France, and that the first on British territory was erected at St. Heliers, Jersey, in 1853. I am not aware that this statement in Escott’s biography has been disputed. Other information concerning Trollope in the same article appears to have been set down without checking the facts. He tells us himself that he started work at 5.30 a.m., not 4 am., that he spent half an hour in reading the previous day’s work, and 2% hours in writing. Again, Trollope may have written his Autobiography when "his fame was at its peak,’ but it was not published until 1883, the yeat following his death-it did not appear, in fact, until several years after the peak period of his fame.
A. H.
REED
(Dunedin).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 452, 20 February 1948, Page 16
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189ANTHONY TROLLOPE New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 452, 20 February 1948, Page 16
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