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Anthony Trollope

How the "Mastiffs" reached the Folger
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How the "Mastiffs" reached the Folger

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In June 1878, the novelist Anthony Trollope and a dozen of his friends boarded the yacht “Mastiff” in Scotland for its maiden voyage, a trip to Iceland. They stayed just over a week, but the episode provided Trollope with enough…