A Dialogue for the Year 2130: Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl
by Thomas Henry Lister
John Clute at the SF
Encyclopedia describes the short play as “almost predictive of H. G. Wells’s 1053 } The
Time Machine,” with Eloi-like upper classes and Morlock-like lower classes—but
apart from having such future beings, there are no actual time phenomena in the play.
However, the play does mention mechanical horses, steam porters, and automata secretaries
who, among other things, write notes of condelences and/or congratulations (sometimes
mixing them up).
— Michael Main
It is amusing to look at the descriptions of manners as they existed in those times.
“A Dialogue for the Year 2130: Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl” by Thomas Henry Lister, in The Keepsake for MDCCCXXX,
edited by Frederic Mansel Reynolds (Hurst, Chance, and Co., and R. Jennings, late
1829).