Trollope eventually got quite responsible work at the post office. Some writers found consular and diplomatic posts: among the Americans, Hawthorne, Howell, an

Trollope eventually got quite responsible work at the post office. Some writers found consular and diplomatic posts: among the Americans, Hawthorne, Howell, and (James Russell) Lowell; among the French, Chateaubriand and Stendhal. Louis Auchincloss was a lawyer.