Add MS 42856

'AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY', BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE, the novelist (d. 1882); written 1 Jan.-11 Apr. 1876 (see f. iib) with additions in 1879 (see f. 212). The autograph manuscript (except for some passages from letters quoted on ff. 79-79b, 83, 83b, 190-191), but not apparently that sent to the printers for the first edition published by his elder son, Henry Merivale Trollope, in 1883, where it is stated that the autobiography was begun in the latter part of 1875.

1n the first edition a few passages were suppressed and some slight alterations were made, neither being indicated in the present manuscript; a number of words were also mistranscribed. The latter were corrected from the present manuscript in the revised version published, with an introduction and postscript, by Michael Sadleir in 1947; Sadleir's edition still excluded passages omitted in the first edition. The textual variations between the first edition and the manuscript are set out, and the excluded passages printed (in an appendix, PP. 369-389) in the edition in 'The Oxford Trollops', published in 1950 with a preface by Frederick Page, the frontispiece to which reproduces f. 89. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., vii, 1932-1933, p. 72, and Friends of the National Libraries, Annual Report 1932-1933, pp. 17-18, and pl. 11 (reproducing ff. 88b-89). Paper; ff. iii+214. Quarto. 1876-1879. The manuscript was bequeathed by Trollope to Henry Merivale Trollope (d. 1926), with instructions that it should be opened after his death (see direction on f. i and Trollope's letter to Henry,dated 30 Apr. 1876, printed in part in the 1883 ed.,pp.v-vi;the full text will be found in Sadleir's introduction to the 1947 ed., p. xvi). Four leaves (now ff. ii, iii, 1, 2) were presented separately in 1942 by Henry Merivale Trollope's daughter, Miss Muriel Trollope. Presented by the Friends of the National Libraries.