Part 111

Ouvry, Frederic, ii. 188, 300; letters to, ii. 205, 427

Overs, i. 37, 49

Owen, Professor, ii. 235

Panizzi, Antonio, ii. 84; letters to, ii. 89, 90, 92

Pardoe, Miss, letter to, i. 73

Paris, Dickens at, i. 130, 131, 147, 157-161, 169, 174, 239, 376, 378, 385-387, 413, 406-425, 430, 431; ii. 171, 187; house-hunting in, i. 158; description of Dickens's house in, i. 159; state of, in 1846, i. 160, 161; feeling of people of, for Dickens, i. 411; Dickens's reading at, ii. 187-190, 192

Parkinson, J. C., ii. 327; letter to, ii. 401

Parrots, human, i. 87, 121

"Patrician's Daughter, The," prologue to, written by Dickens, i. 55, 77

Patronage, the curse of England, ii. 213, 356

Paxton, Sir Joseph, i. 446

Phelps, J., i. 366

"Pickwick," origin and publication of, i. 1, 3; first mention of Jingle, i. 3; conclusion of, celebrated, i. 5; the design of the Shepherd in, explained, i. 85, 89

Picnic, a, of the elements, i, 116; with Eton boys, i. 255, 258

"Picnic Papers," Dickens's share of the, ii. 91

Plessy, Madame, i. 412; ii. 440

Pollock, Sir F., ii. 97, 144, 209; letter to, ii. 10, 214

Pollock, Mrs. F., letter to, ii. 440

Poole, John, i. 298, 317; ii. 228; letter to, i. 236

"Poor Travellers, The," i. 378; sale of, i. 379

Portraits of Dickens, by Maclise, i. 18, 23; by Frith, ii. 84, 93; by Ary Scheffer, i. 414, 434; by John Watkins, ii. 148; a caricature, ii. 146

Postman, an Albaro, i. 112, 117

Power, Miss, i. 442; ii. 82, 293, 300; and see Letters

Power, Nelly, i. 443

Power, Mrs., letter to, ii. 300

Presence of mind of Dickens, ii. 161, 224, 230

Press, the, freedom of, i. 49; in America, i. 97; taxation of the, i. 274

Procter, Adelaide, i. 341; ii. 238; letter to, i. 374