Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (1810-1892)
Trollope, Thomas Adolphus (1810-1892)
British novelist, author on travel, biography, history and frequent investigator of the medium D. D. Home. In 1855, Trollope opposed Sir David Brewster when the latter published a denial of having witnessed Home's psychic phenomena.
Eight years later, in a letter to The Athenaeum (April 1863), Trollope testified to "having seen and felt physical facts, wholly and utterly inexplicable, as I believe, by any known and generally received physical laws. I unhesitatingly reject the theory which considers such facts to be produced by means familiar to the best professors of legerdemain."
The report by a committee of the London Dialectical Society contained his written testimony on an apport of jonquil flowers through the mediumship of Agnes Guppy-Volckman in his own home in Florence, Italy.