CHAPTER XX.. The End.

THE END.

1869-1870.

Visit from Mr. and Mrs. Fields--Places shown to Visitor--Last Paper in All the Year Round--Son Henry's Scholarship--A Reading of Edwin Drood--Medical Attendance at Readings--Excitement after Oliver Twist Scenes--Farewell Address--Results of Over Excitement--Last Appearances in Public--Death of Daniel Maclise--Temptations of London--Another Attack in the Foot--Noteworthy Incident--Tribute of Gratitude for his Books--Last Letter from him--Last Days--Thoughts on his Last Day of Consciousness--The Close--General Mourning--Wish to bury him in the Abbey--His Own Wish--The Burial--Unbidden Mourners--The Grave.

THE summer and autumn of 1869 were passed quietly at Gadshill. He received there, in June, the American friends to whom he had been most indebted for unwearying domestic kindness at his most trying time in the States. In August, he was at the dinner of the International boat-race; and, in a speech that might have gone far to reconcile the victors to changing places with the vanquished, gave the healths of the Harvard and the Oxford crews. He went to Birmingham, in September, to fulfil a promise that he would open the session of the Institute; and there, after telling his audience that his invention, such as it was, never would have served him as it had done, but for the habit of commonplace, patient, drudging attention, he declared his political creed to be infinitesimal faith in the people governing and illimitable faith in the People governed. In such engagements as these, with nothing of the kind of strain he had most to dread, there was hardly more movement or change than was necessary to his enjoyment of rest.

He had been able to show Mr. Fields something of the interest of London as well as of his Kentish home. He went over its "general post-office" with him, took him among its cheap theatres and poor lodging-houses, and piloted him by night through its most notorious thieves' quarter. Its localities that are pleasantest to a lover of books, such as Johnson's Bolt-court and Goldsmith's Temple-chambers, he explored with him; and, at his visitor's special request, mounted a staircase he had not ascended for more than thirty years, to show the chambers in Furnival's Inn where the first page of Pickwick was written. One more book, unfinished, was to close what that famous book began; and the original of the scene of its opening chapter, the opium-eater's den, was the last place visited. "In a miserable court at night," says Mr. Fields, "we found a haggard old woman blowing at a kind of pipe made of an old ink-bottle; and the words which Dickens puts into the mouth of this wretched creature in Edwin Drood, we heard her croon as we leaned over the tattered bed in which she was lying."

Before beginning his novel he had written his last paper for his weekly publication. It was a notice of my Life of Landor, and contained some interesting recollections of that remarkable man. His memory at this time dwelt much, as was only natural, with past pleasant time, as he saw familiar faces leaving us or likely to leave; and, on the death of one of the comedians associated with the old bright days of Covent Garden, I had intimation of a fancy that had never quitted him since the Cheltenham reading. "I see in the paper to-day that Meadows is dead. I had a talk with him at Coutts's a week or two ago, when he said he was seventy-five, and very weak. Except for having a tearful eye, he looked just the same as ever. My mind still constantly misgives me concerning Macready. Curiously, I don't think he has been ever, for ten minutes together, out of my thoughts since I talked with Meadows last. Well, the year that brings trouble brings comfort too: I have a great success in the boy-line to announce to you. Harry has won the second scholarship at Trinity Hall, which gives him £50 a year as long as he stays there; and I begin to hope that he will get a fellowship." I doubt if anything ever more truly pleased him than this little success of his son Henry at Cambridge. Henry missed the fellowship, but was twenty-ninth wrangler in a fair year, when the wranglers were over forty.

He finished his first number of Edwin Drood in the third week of October, and on the 26th read it at my house with great spirit. A few nights before we had seen together at the Olympic a little drama taken from his Copperfield, which he sat out with more than patience, even with something of enjoyment; and another pleasure was given him that night by its author, Mr. Halliday, who brought into the box another dramatist, Mr. Robertson, to whom Dickens, who then first saw him, said that to himself the charm of his little comedies was "their unassuming form," which had so happily shown that "real wit could afford to put off any airs of pretension to it." He was at Gadshill till the close of the year; coming up for a few special occasions, such as Procter's eighty-second birthday; and at my house on new-year's eve he read to us, again aloud, a fresh number of his book. Yet these very last days of December had not been without a reminder of the grave warnings of April. The pains in somewhat modified form had returned in both his left hand and his left foot a few days before we met; and they were troubling him still on that day. But he made so light of them himself; so little thought of connecting them with the uncertainties of touch and tread of which they were really part; and read with such an overflow of humour Mr. Honeythunder's boisterous philanthropy; that there was no room, then, for anything but enjoyment. His only allusion to an effect from his illness was his mention of a now invincible dislike which he had to railway travel. This had decided him to take a London house for the twelve last readings in the early months of 1870, and he had become Mr. Milner-Gibson's tenant at 5, Hyde Park Place.

St. James's Hall was to be the scene of these Readings, and they were to occupy the interval from the 11th of January to the 15th of March; two being given in each week to the close of January, and the remaining eight on each of the eight Tuesdays following. Nothing was said of any kind of apprehension as the time approached; but, with a curious absence of the sense of danger, there was certainly both distrust and fear. Sufficient precaution was supposed to have been taken by arrangement for the presence, at each reading, of his friend and medical attendant, Mr. Carr Beard; but this resolved itself, not into any measure of safety, the case admitting of none short of stopping the reading altogether, but simply into ascertainment of the exact amount of strain and pressure, which, with every fresh exertion, he was placing on those vessels of the brain where the Preston trouble too surely had revealed that danger lay. No supposed force in reserve, no dominant strength of will, can turn aside the penalties sternly exacted for disregard of such laws of life as were here plainly overlooked; and though no one may say that it was not already too late for any but the fatal issue, there will be no presumption in believing that life might yet have been for some time prolonged if these readings could have been stopped.

"I am a little shaken," he wrote on the 9th of January, "by my journey to Birmingham to give away the Institution's prizes on Twelfth Night, but I am in good heart; and, notwithstanding Lowe's worrying scheme for collecting a year's taxes in a lump, which they tell me is damaging books, pictures, music, and theatres beyond precedent, our 'let' at St. James's Hall is enormous." He opened with Copperfield and the Pickwick Trial; and I may briefly mention, from the notes taken by Mr. Beard and placed at my disposal, at what cost of exertion to himself he gratified the crowded audiences that then and to the close made these evenings memorable. His ordinary pulse on the first night was at 72; but never on any subsequent night was lower than 82, and had risen on the later nights to more than 100. After Copperfield on the first night it went up to 96, and after Marigold on the second to 99; but on the first night of the Sikes and Nancy scenes (Friday the 21st of January) it went from 80 to 112, and on the second night (the 1st of February) to 118. From this, through the six remaining nights, it never was lower than 110 after the first piece read; and after the third and fourth readings of the Oliver Twist scenes it rose, from 90 to 124 on the 15th of February, and from 94 to 120 on the 8th of March; on the former occasion, after twenty minutes' rest, falling to 98, and on the latter, after fifteen minutes' rest, falling to 82. His ordinary pulse on entering the room, during these last six nights, was more than once over 100, and never lower than 84; from which it rose, after Nickleby on the 22nd of February, to 112. On the 8th of February, when he read Dombey, it had risen from 91 to 114; on the 1st of March, after Copperfield, it rose from 100 to 124; and when he entered the room on the last night it was at 108, having risen only two beats more when the reading was done. The pieces on this occasion were the Christmas Carol, followed by the Pickwick Trial; and probably in all his life he never read so well. On his return from the States, where he had to address his effects to audiences composed of immense numbers of people, a certain loss of refinement had been observable; but the old delicacy was now again delightfully manifest, and a subdued tone, as well in the humorous as the serious portions, gave something to all the reading as of a quiet sadness of farewell. The charm of this was at its height when he shut the volume of Pickwick and spoke in his own person. He said that for fifteen years he had been reading his own books to audiences whose sensitive and kindly recognition of them had given him instruction and enjoyment in his art such as few men could have had; but that he nevertheless thought it well now to retire upon older associations, and in future to devote himself exclusively to the calling which had first made him known. "In but two short weeks from this time I hope that you may enter, in your own homes, on a new series of readings at which my assistance will be indispensable; but from these garish lights I vanish now for evermore, with a heartfelt, grateful, respectful, affectionate farewell." The brief hush of silence as he moved from the platform; and the prolonged tumult of sound that followed suddenly, stayed him, and again for another moment brought him back; will not be forgotten by any present.

Little remains to be told that has not in it almost unmixed pain and sorrow. Hardly a day passed, while the readings went on or after they closed, unvisited by some effect or other of the disastrous excitement shown by the notes of Mr. Beard. On the 23rd of January, when for the last time he met Carlyle, he came to us with his left hand in a sling; on the 7th of February, when he passed with us his last birthday, and on the 25th, when he read the third number of his novel, the hand was still swollen and painful; and on the 21st of March, when he read admirably his fourth number, he told us that as he came along, walking up the length of Oxford-street, the same incident had recurred as on the day of a former dinner with us, and he had not been able to read, all the way, more than the right-hand half of the names over the shops. Yet he had the old fixed persuasion that this was rather the effect of a medicine he had been taking than of any grave cause, and he still strongly believed his other troubles to be exclusively local. Eight days later he wrote: "My uneasiness and hemorrhage, after having quite left me, as I supposed, has come back with an aggravated irritability that it has not yet displayed. You have no idea what a state I am in to-day from a sudden violent rush of it; and yet it has not the slightest effect on my general health that I know of." This was a disorder which troubled him in his earlier life; and during the last five years, in his intervals of suffering from other causes, it had from time to time taken aggravated form.

His last public appearances were in April. On the 5th he took the chair for the Newsvendors, whom he helped with a genial address in which even his apology for little speaking overflowed with irrepressible humour. He would try, he said, like Falstaff, "but with a modification almost as large as himself," less to speak himself than to be the cause of speaking in others. "Much in this manner they exhibit at the door of a snuff-shop the effigy of a Highlander with an empty mull in his hand, who, apparently having taken all the snuff he can carry, and discharged all the sneezes of which he is capable, politely invites his friends and patrons to step in and try what they can do in the same line." On the 30th of the same month he returned thanks for "Literature" at the Royal Academy dinner, and I may preface my allusion to what he then said with what he had written to me the day before. Three days earlier Daniel Maclise had passed away. "Like you at Ely, so I at Higham, had the shock of first reading at a railway station of the death of our old dear friend and companion. What the shock would be, you know too well. It has been only after great difficulty, and after hardening and steeling myself to the subject by at once thinking of it and avoiding it in a strange way, that I have been able to get any command over it or over myself. If I feel at the time that I can be sure of the necessary composure, I shall make a little reference to it at the Academy to-morrow. I suppose you won't be there." The reference made was most touching and manly. He told those who listened that since he first entered the public lists, a very young man indeed, it had been his constant fortune to number among his nearest and dearest friends members of that Academy who had been its pride; and who had now, one by one, so dropped from his side that he was grown to believe, with the Spanish monk of whom Wilkie spoke, that the only realities around him were the pictures which he loved, and all the moving life but a shadow and a dream. "For many years I was one of the two most intimate friends and most constant companions of Mr. Maclise, to whose death the Prince of Wales has made allusion, and the President has referred with the eloquence of genuine feeling. Of his genius in his chosen art, I will venture to say nothing here; but of his fertility of mind and wealth of intellect I may confidently assert that they would have made him, if he had been so minded, at least as great a writer as he was a painter. The gentlest and most modest of men, the freshest as to his generous appreciation of young aspirants and the frankest and largest hearted as to his peers, incapable of a sordid or ignoble thought, gallantly sustaining the true dignity of his vocation, without one grain of self-ambition, wholesomely natural at the last as at the first, 'in wit a man, simplicity a child,'--no artist of whatsoever denomination, I make bold to say, ever went to his rest leaving a golden memory more pure from dross, or having devoted himself with a truer chivalry to the art-goddess whom he worshipped." These were the last public words of Dickens, and he could not have spoken any worthier.

Upon his appearance at the dinner of the Academy had followed some invitations he was led to accept; greatly to his own regret, he told me on the night (7th of May) when he read to us the fifth number of Edwin Drood; for he was now very eager to get back to the quiet of Gadshill. He dined with Mr. Motley, then American minister; had met Mr. Disraeli at a dinner at Lord Stanhope's; had breakfasted with Mr. Gladstone; and on the 17th was to attend the Queen's ball with his daughter. But she had to go there without him; for on the 16th I had intimation of a sudden disablement. "I am sorry to report, that, in the old preposterous endeavour to dine at preposterous hours and preposterous places, I have been pulled up by a sharp attack in my foot. And serve me right. I hope to get the better of it soon, but I fear I must not think of dining with you on Friday. I have cancelled everything in the dining way for this week, and that is a very small precaution after the horrible pain I have had and the remedies I have taken." He had to excuse himself also from the General Theatrical Fund dinner, where the Prince of Wales was to preside; but at another dinner a week later, where the King of the Belgians and the Prince were to be present, so much pressure was put upon him that he went, still suffering as he was, to dine with Lord Houghton.

We met for the last time on Sunday the 22nd of May, when I dined with him in Hyde Park Place. The death of Mr. Lemon, of which he heard that day, had led his thoughts to the crowd of friendly companions in letters and art who had so fallen from the ranks since we played Ben Jonson together that we were left almost alone. "And none beyond his sixtieth year," he said, "very few even fifty." It is no good to talk of it, I suggested. "We shall not think of it the less" was his reply; and an illustration much to the point was before us, afforded by an incident deserving remembrance in his story. Not many weeks before, a correspondent had written to him from Liverpool describing himself as a self-raised man, attributing his prosperous career to what Dickens's writings had taught him at its outset of the wisdom of kindness, and sympathy for others; and asking pardon for the liberty he took in hoping that he might be permitted to offer some acknowledgment of what not only had cheered and stimulated him through all his life, but had contributed so much to the success of it. The letter enclosed £500. Dickens was greatly touched by this; and told the writer, in sending back his cheque, that he would certainly have taken it if he had not been, though not a man of fortune, a prosperous man himself; but that the letter, and the spirit of its offer, had so gratified him, that if the writer pleased to send him any small memorial of it in another form he would gladly receive it. The memorial soon came. A richly worked basket of silver, inscribed "from one who has been cheered and stimulated by Mr. Dickens's writings, and held the author among his first remembrances when he became prosperous," was accompanied by an extremely handsome silver centrepiece for the table, of which the design was four figures representing the Seasons. But the kindly donor shrank from sending Winter to one whom he would fain connect with none but the brighter and milder days, and he had struck the fourth figure from the design. "I never look at it," said Dickens, "that I don't think most of the Winter."

A matter discussed that day with Mr. Ouvry was briefly resumed in a note of the 29th of May, the last I ever received from him; which followed me to Exeter, and closed thus. "You and I can speak of it at Gads by and by. Foot no worse. But no better." The old trouble was upon him when we parted, and this must have been nearly the last note written before he quitted London. He was at Gadshill on the 30th of May; and I heard no more until the telegram reached me at Launceston on the night of the 9th of June, which told me that the "by and by" was not to come in this world.

The few days at Gadshill had been given wholly to work on his novel. He had been easier in his foot and hand; and, though he was suffering severely from the local hemorrhage before named, he made no complaint of illness. But there was observed in him a very unusual appearance of fatigue. "He seemed very weary." He was out with his dogs for the last time on Monday the 6th of June, when he walked with his letters into Rochester. On Tuesday the 7th, after his daughter Mary had left on a visit to her sister Kate, not finding himself equal to much fatigue, he drove to Cobhamwood with his sister-in-law, there dismissed the carriage, and walked round the park and back. He returned in time to put up in his new conservatory some Chinese lanterns sent from London that afternoon; and, the whole of the evening, he sat with Miss Hogarth in the dining-room that he might see their effect when lighted. More than once he then expressed his satisfaction at having finally abandoned all intention of exchanging Gadshill for London; and this he had done more impressively some days before. While he lived, he said, he should like his name to be more and more associated with the place; and he had a notion that when he died he should like to lie in the little graveyard belonging to the Cathedral at the foot of the Castle wall.

On the 8th of June he passed all the day writing in the Châlet. He came over for luncheon; and, much against his usual custom, returned to his desk. Of the sentences he was then writing, the last of his long life of literature, a portion has been given in facsimile on a previous page; and the reader will observe with a painful interest, not alone its evidence of minute labour at this fast-closing hour of time with him, but the direction his thoughts had taken. He imagines such a brilliant morning as had risen with that eighth of June shining on the old city of Rochester. He sees in surpassing beauty, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air, its antiquities and its ruins; its Cathedral and Castle. But his fancy, then, is not with the stern dead forms of either; but with that which makes warm the cold stone tombs of centuries, and lights them up with flecks of brightness, "fluttering there like wings." To him, on that sunny summer morning, the changes of glorious light from moving boughs, the songs of birds, the scents from garden, woods, and fields, have penetrated into the Cathedral, have subdued its earthy odour, and are preaching the Resurrection and the Life.

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He was late in leaving the Châlet; but before dinner, which was ordered at six o'clock with the intention of walking afterwards in the lanes, he wrote some letters, among them one to his friend Mr. Charles Kent appointing to see him in London next day; and dinner was begun before Miss Hogarth saw, with alarm, a singular expression of trouble and pain in his face. "For an hour," he then told her, "he had been very ill;" but he wished dinner to go on. These were the only really coherent words uttered by him. They were followed by some, that fell from him disconnectedly, of quite other matters; of an approaching sale at a neighbour's house, of whether Macready's son was with his father at Cheltenham, and of his own intention to go immediately to London; but at these latter he had risen, and his sister-in-law's help alone prevented him from falling where he stood. Her effort then was to get him on the sofa, but after a slight struggle he sank heavily on his left side. "On the ground" were the last words he spoke. It was now a little over ten minutes past six o'clock. His two daughters came that night with Mr. Beard, who had also been telegraphed for, and whom they met at the station. His eldest son arrived early next morning, and was joined in the evening (too late) by his younger son from Cambridge. All possible medical aid had been summoned. The surgeon of the neighbourhood was there from the first, and a physician from London was in attendance as well as Mr. Beard. But all human help was unavailing. There was effusion on the brain; and though stertorous breathing continued all night, and until ten minutes past six o'clock on the evening of Thursday the 9th of June, there had never been a gleam of hope during the twenty-four hours. He had lived four months beyond his 58th year.

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The excitement and sorrow at his death are within the memory of all. Before the news of it even reached the remoter parts of England, it had been flashed across Europe; was known in the distant continents of India, Australia, and America; and not in English-speaking communities only, but in every country of the civilised earth, had awakened grief and sympathy. In his own land it was as if a personal bereavement had befallen every one. Her Majesty the Queen telegraphed from Balmoral "her deepest regret at the sad news of Charles Dickens's death;" and this was the sentiment alike of all classes of her people. There was not an English journal that did not give it touching and noble utterance; and the Times took the lead in suggesting that the only fit resting-place for the remains of a man so dear to England was the Abbey in which the most illustrious Englishmen are laid.

With the expression thus given to a general wish, the Dean of Westminster lost no time in showing ready compliance; and on the morning of the day when it appeared was in communication with the family and representatives. The public homage of a burial in the Abbey had to be reconciled with his own instructions to be privately buried without previous announcement of time or place, and without monument or memorial. He would himself have preferred to lie in the small graveyard under Rochester Castle wall, or in the little churches of Cobham or Shorne; but all these were found to be closed; and the desire of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester to lay him in their Cathedral had been entertained, when the Dean of Westminster's request, and the considerate kindness of his generous assurance that there should be only such ceremonial as would strictly obey all injunctions of privacy, made it a grateful duty to accept that offer. The spot already had been chosen by the Dean; and before mid-day on the following morning, Tuesday the 14th of June, with knowledge of those only who took part in the burial, all was done. The solemnity had not lost by the simplicity. Nothing so grand or so touching could have accompanied it, as the stillness and the silence of the vast Cathedral. Then, later in the day and all the following day, came unbidden mourners in such crowds, that the Dean had to request permission to keep open the grave until Thursday; but after it was closed they did not cease to come, and "all day long," Doctor Stanley wrote on the 17th, "there was a constant pressure to the spot, and many flowers were strewn upon it by unknown hands, many tears shed from unknown eyes." He alluded to this in the impressive funeral discourse delivered by him in the Abbey on the morning of Sunday the 19th, pointing to the fresh flowers that then had been newly thrown (as they still are thrown, in this fourth year after the death), and saying that "the spot would thenceforward be a sacred one with both the New World and the Old, as that of the representative of the literature, not of this island only, but of all who speak our English tongue." The stone placed upon it is inscribed

CHARLES DICKENS. BORN FEBRUARY THE SEVENTH 1812. DIED JUNE THE NINTH 1870.

The highest associations of both the arts he loved surround him where he lies. Next to him is RICHARD CUMBERLAND. Mrs. PRITCHARD'S monument looks down upon him, and immediately behind is DAVID GARRICK'S. Nor is the actor's delightful art more worthily represented than the nobler genius of the author. Facing the grave, and on its left and right, are the monuments of CHAUCER, SHAKESPEARE, and DRYDEN, the three immortals who did most to create and settle the language to which CHARLES DICKENS has given another undying name.

FINIS.

FOOTNOTES:

I desire to guard myself against any possible supposition that I think these Readings might have been stopped by the exercise of medical authority. I am convinced of the contrary. Dickens had pledged himself to them; and the fact that others' interests were engaged rather than his own supplied him with an overpowering motive for being determinedly set on going through with them. At the sorrowful time in the preceding year, when, yielding to the stern sentence passed by Sir Thomas Watson, he had dismissed finally the staff employed on his country readings, he had thus written to me. "I do believe" (3rd of May 1869) "that such people as the Chappells are very rarely to be found in human affairs. To say nothing of their noble and munificent manner of sweeping away into space all the charges incurred uselessly, and all the immense inconvenience and profitless work thrown upon their establishment, comes a note this morning from the senior partner, to the effect that they feel that my overwork has been 'indirectly caused by them, and by my great and kind exertions to make their venture successful to the extreme.' There is something so delicate and fine in this, that I feel it deeply." That feeling led to his resolve to make the additional exertion of these twelve last readings, and nothing would have turned him from it as long as he could stand at the desk.

I preserve also the closing words of the letter. "It is very strange--you remember I suppose?--that the last time we spoke of him together, you said that we should one day hear that the wayward life into which he had fallen was over, and there an end of our knowledge of it." The waywardness, which was merely the having latterly withdrawn himself too much from old friendly intercourse, had its real origin in disappointments connected with the public work on which he was engaged in those later years, and to which he sacrificed every private interest of his own. His was only the common fate of Englishmen, so engaged, who do this; and when the real story of the "Fresco-painting for the Houses of Parliament" comes to be written, it will be another chapter added to our national misadventures and reproaches in everything connected with Art and its hapless cultivators.

It is a duty to quote these eloquent words. "Statesmen, men of science, philanthropists, the acknowledged benefactors of their race, might pass away, and yet not leave the void which will be caused by the death of Dickens. They may have earned the esteem of mankind; their days may have been passed in power, honour, and prosperity; they may have been surrounded by troops of friends; but, however pre-eminent in station, ability, or public services, they will not have been, like our great and genial novelist, the intimate of every household. Indeed, such a position is attained not even by one man in an age. It needs an extraordinary combination of intellectual and moral qualities . . . before the world will thus consent to enthrone a man as their unassailable and enduring favourite. This is the position which Mr. Dickens has occupied with the English and also with the American public for the third of a century. . . . Westminster Abbey is the peculiar resting-place of English literary genius; and among those whose sacred dust lies there, or whose names are recorded on the walls, very few are more worthy than Charles Dickens of such a home. Fewer still, we believe, will be regarded with more honour as time passes and his greatness grows upon us."

APPENDIX.

THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS.

1835.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. (The detached papers collected under this title were in course of publication during this year, in the pages of the Monthly Magazine and the columns of the Morning and the Evening Chronicle.) i. 97; 104, 105; 107; 113, 114.

1836.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. Two volumes: Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (Preface dated from Furnival's Inn, February 1836.) John Macrone.

THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz (Hablot Browne). (Nine numbers published monthly from April to December.) Chapman and Hall.

SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS. As it is; as Sabbath Bills would make it; as it might be made. By Timothy Sparks. Illustrated by H. K. B. (Hablot Browne). Dedicated (June 1836) to the Bishop of London. Chapman & Hall. i. 149.

THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN. A Comic Burletta, in two acts. By "Boz." (Performed at the St. James's Theatre, 29th of September 1836, and published with the imprint of 1837.) Chapman & Hall. i. 116.

THE VILLAGE COQUETTES. A Comic Opera, in two acts. By Charles Dickens. The Music by John Hullah. (Dedication to Mr. Braham is dated from Furnival's Inn, 15th of December 1836.) Richard Bentley. i. 116.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Second Series. One volume. (Preface dated from Furnival's Inn, 17th of December 1836.) John Macrone.

1837.

THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. Edited by Boz. (Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to November. Issued complete in the latter month, with Dedication to Mr. Serjeant Talfourd dated from Doughty-street, 27th of September, as The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens.) Chapman & Hall. i. 108-113; 125-132. iii. 343.

OLIVER TWIST; OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS. By Boz. Begun in Bentley's Miscellany for January, and continued throughout the year. Richard Bentley.

1838.

OLIVER TWIST. By Charles Dickens, Author of the Pickwick Papers. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Three volumes. (Had appeared in monthly portions, in the numbers of Bentley's Miscellany for 1837 and 1838, with the title of Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress. By Boz. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. The Third Edition, with Preface dated Devonshire-terrace, March 1841, published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall.) Richard Bentley. i. 121; 124-126; 152-164. iii. 24, 25; 343.

MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI. Edited by "Boz." Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Two volumes. (For Dickens's small share in the composition of this work, his preface to which is dated from Doughty-street, February 1838, see i. 141-143.) Richard Bentley.

SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN. Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall. i. 149.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Browne). (Nine numbers published monthly from April to December.) Chapman & Hall.

1839.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. (Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to October. Issued complete in the latter month, with dedication to William Charles Macready.) Chapman & Hall. i. 145; 165-179. ii. 99, 100; 102. iii. 344.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. With forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (The first complete edition, issued in monthly parts uniform with Pickwick and Nickleby, from November 1837 to June 1839, with preface dated 15th of May 1839.) Chapman & Hall. i. 121-124.

1840.

SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES; with an urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England, being Bachelors or Widowers, at the present alarming crisis. By the Author of Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall, i. 149.

1840-1841.

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Three volumes. (First and second volume, each 306 pp.; third, 426 pp.) For the account of this work, published in 88 weekly numbers, extending over the greater part of these two years, see i. 191-203; 240; 281, 282. In addition to occasional detached papers and a series of sketches entitled MR. WELLER'S WATCH, occupying altogether about 90 pages of the first volume, 4 pages of the second, and 5 pages of the third, which have not yet appeared in any other collected form, this serial comprised the stories of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge; each ultimately sold separately in a single volume, from which the pages of the Clock were detached. Chapman and Hall.

I. OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (1840).

Began at p. 37 of vol. i.; resumed at intervals up to the appearance of the ninth chapter; from the ninth chapter at p. 133, continued without interruption to the close of the volume (then issued with dedication to Samuel Rogers and preface from Devonshire-terrace, dated September 1840); resumed in the second volume, and carried on to the close of the tale at p. 223. i. 200-216, iii. 344, 345.

II. BARNABY RUDGE (1841).

Introduced by brief paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 224-8), and carried to end of Chapter XII. in the closing 78 pages of volume ii., which was issued with a preface dated in March 1841. Chapter XIII. began the third volume, and the story closed with its 82nd chapter at p. 420; a closing paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 421--426) then winding up the Clock, of which the concluding volume was published with a preface dated November 1841. i. 134, 135; 147-149; 161-163; 223-225; 232-248.

1841.

THE PIC-NIC PAPERS by Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz, &c. Three volumes. (To this Book, edited for the benefit of Mrs. Macrone, widow of his old publisher, Dickens contributed a preface and the opening story, the Lamplighter.) Henry Colburn. i. 124; 183; 240, 241.

1842.

AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION. By Charles Dickens. Two volumes. Chapman and Hall. ii. 21-39; 50.

1843.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Begun in January, and, up to the close of the year, twelve monthly numbers published). Chapman & Hall.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by John Leech. (Preface dated December 1843.) Chapman & Hall. ii. 60, 61; 71, 72; 84-92.

1844.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight monthly numbers issued; the last being a double number, between January and July; in which latter month the completed work was published, with dedication to Miss Burdett Coutts, and Preface dated 25th of June.) Chapman & Hall. ii. 44-46; 50, 51; 63-65; 74-84; 99-103. iii. 345.

EVENINGS OF A WORKING MAN. By John Overs. With a Preface relative to the Author, by Charles Dickens. (Dedication to Doctor Elliotson, and Preface dated in June.) T. C. Newby. ii. 109, 110.

THE CHIMES: a Goblin Story of some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. Chapman & Hall. ii. 143-147; 151-157; 160-162; 174, 175; 179.

1845.

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. A Fairy Tale of Home. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Edwin Landseer R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedication to Lord Jeffrey dated in December 1845.) Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. 202-204; 215; 445.

1846.

PICTURES FROM ITALY. By Charles Dickens. (Published originally in the Daily News from January to March 1846, with the title of "Travelling Letters written on the Road.") Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. 88; 105; 163-167; 191; 219, 220.

DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON, WHOLESALE, RETAIL, AND FOR EXPORTATION. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Three monthly numbers published, from October to the close of the year.) Bradbury & Evans. (During this year Messrs. Bradbury & Evans published "for the Author," in numbers uniform with the other serials, and afterwards in a single volume, The Adventures of Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress. By Charles Dickens. With 24 Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A new Edition, revised and corrected.).

THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedicated to his "English Friends in Switzerland.") Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. 230; 241, 242; 279, 280; 284, 285; 286-289; 293-297; 303-311.

1847.

DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON. (Twelve numbers published monthly during the year.) Bradbury & Evans.

FIRST CHEAP ISSUE OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. An Edition, printed in double columns, and issued in weekly three-halfpenny numbers. The first number, being the first of Pickwick, was issued in April 1847; and the volume containing that book, with preface dated September 1847, was published in October. New prefaces were for the most part prefixed to each story, and each volume had a frontispiece. The first series (issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and closing in September 1852) comprised Pickwick, Nickleby, Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, American Notes, Sketches by Boz, and Christmas Books. The second (issued by Messrs. Bradbury & Evans, and closing in 1861) contained Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit. The third, issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, has since included Great Expectations (1863), Tale of Two Cities (1864), Hard Times and Pictures from Italy (1865), Uncommercial Traveller (1865), and Our Mutual Friend (1867). Among the Illustrators employed for the Frontispieces were Leslie R.A., Webster R.A., Stanfield R.A., George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Frank Stone A.R.A., John Leech, Marcus Stone, and Hablot Browne. See ii. 326 and 388.

1848.

DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY & SON: WHOLESALE, RETAIL, AND FOR EXPORTATION. (Five numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to April; in which latter month the complete work was published with dedication to Lady Normanby and preface dated Devonshire-terrace, 24th of March.) Bradbury & Evans, ii. 102; 107; 219; 220; 230; 241; 265; 278; 280-282; 334-336; 337-367. iii. 345.

THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN. A Fancy for Christmas Time. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Stanfield R.A., John Tenniel, Frank Stone A.R.A., and John Leech. Bradbury & Evans, ii. 280; 388-390; 419; 442-447; 468.

1849.

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight parts issued monthly from May to December.) Bradbury & Evans.

1850.

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to November; in which latter month the completed work was published, with inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Watson of Rockingham, and preface dated October.) Bradbury & Evans. ii. 102; 422, 423; 434, 435; 438; 447; 462-466; 484-487; 494. iii. 21-40; 348, 349.

HOUSEHOLD WORDS. On Saturday the 30th of March in this year the weekly serial of HOUSEHOLD WORDS was begun, and was carried on uninterruptedly to the 28th of May 1859, when, its place having been meanwhile taken by the serial in the same form still existing, HOUSEHOLD WORDS was discontinued. ii. 201-203; 449-456. iii. 239; 490-498.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. CHRISTMAS. To this Dickens contributed A CHRISTMAS TREE.

1851.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. WHAT CHRISTMAS IS. To this Dickens contributed WHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDER.

1852.

BLEAK HOUSE. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers, issued monthly, from March to December.) Bradbury & Evans.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS. To this Dickens contributed THE POOR RELATION'S STORY, and THE CHILD'S STORY.

1853.

BLEAK HOUSE. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to September, in which latter month, with dedication to his "Companions in the Guild of Literature and Art," and preface dated in August, the completed book was published.) Bradbury & Evans, ii. 342; 441. iii. 25-29; 40-54; 57-59; 345.

A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Charles Dickens. Three vols. With frontispieces from designs by F. W. Topham. Reprinted from Household Words, where it appeared between the dates of the 25th of January 1851 and the 10th of December 1853. (It was published first in a complete form with dedication to his own children in 1854.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. 58.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. CHRISTMAS STORIES. To this Dickens contributed THE SCHOOL BOY'S STORY, and NOBODY'S STORY.

1854.

HARD TIMES. FOR THESE TIMES. By Charles Dickens. (This tale appeared in weekly portions in Household Words, between the dates of the 1st of April and the 12th of August 1854; in which latter month it was published complete, with inscription to Thomas Carlyle.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. 65-70.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words: THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS. To this Dickens contributed three chapters. I. IN THE OLD CITY OF ROCHESTER; II. THE STORY OF RICHARD DOUBLEDICK; III. THE ROAD. iii. 154.

1855.

LITTLE DORRIT. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. The first number published in December. Bradbury & Evans.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. THE HOLLY-TREE. To this Dickens contributed three branches. I. MYSELF; II. THE BOOTS; III. THE BILL. iii. 154; 415.

1856.

LITTLE DORRIT. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, between January and December.) Bradbury & Evans.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY. To this Dickens contributed the leading chapter: THE WRECK. iii. 485.

1857.

LITTLE DORRIT. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Seven numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to June, in which latter month the tale was published complete, with preface, and dedication to Clarkson Stanfield.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. 72; 75; 96; 115; 154-164; 276-278.

THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES, in Household Words for October. To the first part of these papers Dickens contributed all up to the top of the second column of page 316; to the second part, all up to the white line in the second column of page 340; to the third part, all except the reflections of Mr. Idle (363-5); and the whole of the fourth part. All the rest was by Mr. Wilkie Collins, iii. 170-176; 351.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS. To this Dickens contributed the chapters entitled THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE, and THE RAFTS ON THE RIVER.

THE FIRST LIBRARY EDITION OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. The first volume, with dedication to John Forster, was issued in December 1857, and the volumes appeared monthly up to the 24th, issued in November 1859. The later books and writings have been added in subsequent volumes, and an addition has also been issued with the illustrations. To the second volume of the Old Curiosity Shop, as issued in this edition, were added 31 "REPRINTED PIECES" taken from Dickens's papers in Household Words; which have since appeared also in other collected editions. Chapman & Hall. iii. 236.

AUTHORIZED FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE WORKS OF DICKENS. Translations of Dickens exist in every European language; but the only version of his writings in a foreign tongue authorized by him, or for which he received anything, was undertaken in Paris. Nickleby was the first story published, and to it was prefixed an address from Dickens to the French public dated from Tavistock-house the 17th January 1857. Hachette. iii. 121; 125.

1858.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of Household Words. A HOUSE TO LET. To this Dickens contributed the chapter entitled "GOING INTO SOCIETY." iii. 250; 260.

1859.

ALL THE YEAR ROUND, the weekly serial which took the place of HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Began on the 30th of April in this year, went on uninterruptedly until Dickens's death, and is continued under the management of his son. iii. 239-254; 462; 490-499.

A TALE OF TWO CITIES. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. This tale was printed in weekly portions in All the Year Round, between the dates of the 30th of April and the 26th of November 1859; appearing also concurrently in monthly numbers with illustrations, from June to December; when it was published complete with dedication to Lord John Russell, iii. 243; 279; 353-360.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round. THE HAUNTED HOUSE. To which Dickens contributed two chapters. I. THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSE. II. THE GHOST IN MASTER B'S ROOM. iii. 246.

1860.

HUNTED DOWN. A Story in two Portions. (Written for an American newspaper, and reprinted in the numbers of All the Year Round for the 4th and the 11th of August. iii. 253; 279.)

THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER. By Charles Dickens. (Seventeen papers, which had appeared under this title between the dates of 28th of January and 13th of October 1860 in All the Year Round, were published at the close of the year, in a volume, with preface dated December. A later impression was issued in 1868, as a volume of what was called the Charles Dickens Edition; when eleven fresh papers, written in the interval, were added; and promise was given, in a preface dated December 1868, of the Uncommercial Traveller's intention "to take to the road again before another winter sets in." Between that date and the autumn of 1869, when the last of his detached papers were written, All the Year Round published seven "New Uncommercial Samples" which have not yet been collected. Their title's were, i. Aboard ship (which opened, on the 5th of December 1868, the New Series of All the Year Round); ii. A Small Star in the East; iii. A Little Dinner in an Hour; iv. Mr. Barlow; v. On an Amateur Beat; vi. A Fly-Leaf in a Life; vii. A Plea for Total Abstinence. The date of the last was the 5th of June 1869; and on the 24th of July appeared his last piece of writing for the serial he had so long conducted, a paper entitled Landor's Life.) iii. 247-252; 528.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round. A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. To which Dickens contributed nearly all the first, and the whole of the second and the last chapter: THE VILLAGE, THE MONEY, and THE RESTITUTION; the two intervening chapters, though also with insertions from his hand, not being his.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS. By Charles Dickens. Begun in All the Year Round on the 1st of December, and continued weekly to the close of that year.

1861.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS. By Charles Dickens. Resumed on the 5th of January and issued in weekly portions, closing on the 3rd of August, when the complete story was published in three volumes and inscribed to Chauncy Hare Townshend. In the following year it was published in a single volume, illustrated by Mr. Marcus Stone. Chapman & Hall. iii. 245; 259; 260 (the words there used "on Great Expectations closing in June 1861" refer to the time when the Writing of it was closed: it did not close in the Publication until August, as above stated); 360-369.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round, TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND. To which Dickens contributed three of the seven chapters. I. PICKING UP SOOT AND CINDERS; II. PICKING UP MISS KIMMEENS; III. PICKING UP THE TINKER. iii. 245.

1862.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round. SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE. To which Dickens contributed four chapters. I. HIS LEAVING IT TILL CALLED FOR; II. HIS BOOTS; III. HIS BROWN-PAPER PARCEL; IV. HIS WONDERFUL END. To the chapter of His Umbrella he also contributed a portion. iii. 351; 370.

1863.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round. MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODGINGS. To which Dickens contributed the first and the last chapter. I. HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS; II. HOW THE PARLOURS ADDED A FEW WORDS. iii. 370, 371.

1864.

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. Eight numbers issued monthly between May and December. Chapman & Hall.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round: MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY: to which Dickens contributed the first and the last chapter. I. MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER; II. MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW JEMMY TOPPED UP. iii. 371.

1865.

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. In Two Volumes. (Two more numbers issued in January and February, when the first volume was published, with dedication to Sir James Emerson Tennent. The remaining ten numbers, the last being a double number, were issued between March and November, when the complete work was published in two volumes.) Chapman & Hall. iii. 271; 280, 281; 301.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round. DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS. To this Dickens contributed three portions. I. TO BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY. II. TO BE TAKEN FOR LIFE; III. The portion with the title of TO BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, describing a Trial for Murder, was also his. iii. 379.

1866.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round. MUGBY JUNCTION. To this Dickens contributed four papers. I. BARBOX BROTHERS; II. BARBOX BROTHERS AND CO.; III. MAIN LINE--THE BOY AT MUGBY. IV. NO. I BRANCH LINE--THE SIGNAL-MAN. iii. 379 (where a slight error is made in not treating Barbox and the Mugby Boy as parts of one Christmas piece).

1867.

THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION. This collected edition, which had originated with the American publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields, was issued here between the dates of 1868 and 1870, with dedication to John Forster, beginning with Pickwick in May 1868, and closing with the Child's History in July 1870. The REPRINTED PIECES were with the volume of AMERICAN NOTES, and the PICTURES FROM ITALY closed the volume containing HARD TIMES. Chapman & Hall.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of All the Year Round. NO THOROUGHFARE. To this Dickens contributed, with Mr. Wilkie Collins, in nearly equal portions. With the new series of All the Year Round, which began on the 5th of December 1868, Dickens discontinued the issue of Christmas Numbers. iii. 462 note.

1868.

A HOLIDAY ROMANCE. GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION. Written respectively for a Child's Magazine, and for the Atlantic Monthly, published in America by Messrs. Ticknor and Fields. Republished in All the Year Round on the 25th of January and the 1st and 8th of February 1868. iii. 321, 380.

1870.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. By Charles Dickens, with twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes. (Meant to have comprised twelve monthly numbers, but prematurely closed by the writer's death in June.) Issued in six monthly numbers, between April and September. Chapman & Hall. iii. 461-477.

II.

THE WILL OF CHARLES DICKENS.

"I, Charles Dickens, of Gadshill Place, Higham in the county of Kent, hereby revoke all my former Wills and Codicils and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. I give the sum of £1000 free of legacy duty to Miss Ellen Lawless Ternan, late of Houghton Place, Ampthill Square, in the county of Middlesex. I GIVE the sum of £19 19 0 to my faithful servant Mrs. Anne Cornelius. I GIVE the sum of £19 19 0 to the daughter and only child of the said Mrs. Anne Cornelius. I GIVE the sum of £19 19 0 to each and every domestic servant, male and female, who shall be in my employment at the time of my decease, and shall have been in my employment for a not less period of time than one year. I GIVE the sum of £1000 free of legacy duty to my daughter Mary Dickens. I also give to my said daughter an annuity of £300 a year, during her life, if she shall so long continue unmarried; such annuity to be considered as accruing from day to day, but to be payable half yearly, the first of such half-yearly payments to be made at the expiration of six months next after my decease. If my said daughter Mary shall marry, such annuity shall cease; and in that case, but in that case only, my said daughter shall share with my other children in the provision hereinafter made for them. I GIVE to my dear sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth the sum of £8000 free of legacy duty. I also give to the said Georgina Hogarth all my personal jewellery not hereinafter mentioned, and all the little familiar objects from my writing-table and my room, and she will know what to do with those things. I ALSO GIVE to the said Georgina Hogarth all my private papers whatsoever and wheresoever, and I leave her my grateful blessing as the best and truest friend man ever had. I GIVE to my eldest son Charles my library of printed books, and my engravings and prints; and I also give to my son Charles the silver salver presented to me at Birmingham, and the silver cup presented to me at Edinburgh, and my shirt studs, shirt pins, and sleeve buttons. AND I BEQUEATH unto my said son Charles and my son Henry Fielding Dickens, the sum of £8000 upon trust to invest the same, and from time to time to vary the investments thereof, and to pay the annual income thereof to my wife during her life, and after her decease the said sum of £8000 and the investments thereof shall be in trust for my children (but subject as to my daughter Mary to the proviso hereinbefore contained) who being a son or sons shall have attained or shall attain the age of twenty-one years or being a daughter or daughters shall have attained or shall attain that age or be previously married, in equal shares if more than one. I GIVE my watch (the gold repeater presented to me at Coventry), and I give the chains and seals and all appendages I have worn with it, to my dear and trusty friend John Forster, of Palace Gate House, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex aforesaid; and I also give to the said John Forster such manuscripts of my published works as may be in my possession at the time of my decease. AND I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my real and personal estate (except such as is vested in me as a trustee or mortgagee) unto the said Georgina Hogarth and the said John Forster, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns respectively, upon trust that they the said Georgina Hogarth and John Forster, or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor, do and shall, at their, his, or her uncontrolled and irresponsible direction, either proceed to an immediate sale or conversion into money of the said real and personal estate (including my copyrights), or defer and postpone any sale or conversion into money, till such time or times as they, he, or she shall think fit, and in the meantime may manage and let the said real and personal estate (including my copyrights), in such manner in all respects as I myself could do, if I were living and acting therein; it being my intention that the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will shall have the fullest power over the said real and personal estate which I can give to them, him, or her. AND I DECLARE that, until the said real and personal estate shall be sold and converted into money, the rents and annual income thereof respectively shall be paid and applied to the person or persons in the manner and for the purposes to whom and for which the annual income of the monies to arise from the sale or conversion thereof into money would be payable or applicable under this my Will in case the same were sold or converted into money. AND I DECLARE that my real estate shall for the purposes of this my Will be considered as converted into personalty upon my decease. AND I DECLARE that the said trustees or trustee for the time being, do and shall, with and out of the monies which shall come to their, his, or her hands, under or by virtue of this my Will and the trusts thereof, pay my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, and legacies. AND I DECLARE that the said trust funds or so much thereof as shall remain after answering the purposes aforesaid, and the annual income thereof, shall be in trust for all my children (but subject as to my daughter Mary to the proviso hereinbefore contained), who being a son or sons shall have attained or shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and being a daughter or daughters shall have attained or shall attain that age or be previously married, in equal shares if more than one. PROVIDED ALWAYS, that, as regards my copyrights and the produce and profits thereof, my said daughter Mary, notwithstanding the proviso hereinbefore contained with reference to her, shall share with my other children therein whether she be married or not. AND I DEVISE the estates vested in me at my decease as a trustee or mortgagee unto the use of the said Georgina Hogarth and John Forster, their heirs and assigns, upon the trusts and subject to the equities affecting the same respectively. AND I APPOINT the said GEORGINA HOGARTH and JOHN FORSTER executrix and executor of this my Will, and GUARDIANS of the persons of my children during their respective minorities. AND LASTLY, as I have now set down the form of words which my legal advisers assure me are necessary to the plain objects of this my Will, I solemnly enjoin my dear children always to remember how much they owe to the said Georgina Hogarth, and never to be wanting in a grateful and affectionate attachment to her, for they know well that she has been, through all the stages of their growth and progress, their ever useful self-denying and devoted friend. AND I DESIRE here simply to record the fact that my wife, since our separation by consent, has been in the receipt from me of an annual income of £600, while all the great charges of a numerous and expensive family have devolved wholly upon myself. I emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner; that no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial; that at the utmost not more than three plain mourning coaches be employed; and that those who attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of 'Mr.' or 'Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition thereto. I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow construction of its letter here or there. IN WITNESS whereof I the said Charles Dickens, the testator, have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand this 12th day of May in the year of our Lord 1869.

"Signed published and declared by } the above-named Charles Dickens the } testator as and for his last Will and Testament } in the presence of us (present together } CHARLES DICKENS. at the same time) who in his presence } at his request and in the presence of } each other have hereunto subscribed our } names as witnesses. }

"G. HOLSWORTH, "26 Wellington Street, Strand.

"HENRY WALKER, "26 Wellington Street, Strand.

"I, Charles Dickens of Gadshill Place near Rochester in the county of Kent Esquire declare this to be a Codicil to my last Will and Testament which Will bears date the 12th day of May 1869. I GIVE to my son Charles Dickens the younger all my share and interest in the weekly journal called 'All the Year Round,' which is now conducted under Articles of Partnership made between me and William Henry Wills and the said Charles Dickens the younger, and all my share and interest in the stereotypes stock and other effects belonging to the said partnership, he defraying my share of all debts and liabilities of the said partnership which may be outstanding at the time of my decease, and in all other respects I confirm my said Will. IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord 1870.

"Signed and declared by the said } CHARLES DICKENS, the testator as and } for a Codicil to his Will in the presence } of us present at the same time who at } CHARLES DICKENS. his request in his presence and in the } presence of each other hereunto subscribe } our names as witnesses. }

"G. HOLSWORTH, "26 Wellington Street, Strand.

"HENRY WALKER, "26 Wellington Street, Strand.

* * * * *

The real and personal estate,--taking the property bequeathed by the last codicil at a valuation of something less than two years' purchase; and of course before payment of the legacies, the (inconsiderable) debts, and the testamentary and other expenses,--amounted, as nearly as may be calculated, to, £93,000.

III.

CORRECTIONS MADE IN THE LATER EDITIONS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

I regret to have had no opportunity until now (May, 1873) of making the corrections which appear in this impression of my second volume. All the early reprints having been called for before the close of 1872, the only change I at that time found possible was amendment of an error at p. 397, as to the date of the first performance at Devonshire House, and of a few others of small importance at pp. 262, 291, 320, 360, 444, and 446.

Premising that additional corrections, also unimportant, are now made at pp. 57, 135, 136, 142, 301, 329, 405, and 483, I proceed to indicate what may seem to require more detailed mention.

P. 50. "Covent-garden" is substituted for "Drury-lane." The Chronicle atoned for its present silence by a severe notice of the man's subsequent appearance at the Haymarket; and of this I am glad to be reminded by Mr. Gruneisen, who wrote the criticism.

50. The son of the publican referred to (Mr. Whelpdale of Streatham), pointing out my error in not having made the Duke of Brunswick the defendant, says he was himself a witness in the case, and has had pride in repeating to his own children what the Chief Justice said of his father.

117. The "limpet on the rock" and the "green boots" refer to a wonderful piece by Turner in the previous year's Academy, exhibiting a rock overhanging a magnificent sea, a booted figure appearing on the rock, and at its feet a blotch to represent a limpet: the subject being Napoleon at St. Helena.

168. "Assumption" is substituted for "Transfiguration."

182. Six words are added to the first note.

193, 194. An error in my former statement of the circumstances of Mr. Fletcher's death, which I much regret to have made, is now corrected.

195. The proper names of the ship and her captain are here given, as the Fantôme, commanded by Sir Frederick (now Vice-Admiral) Nicolson.

229. A correspondent familiar with Lausanne informs me that the Castle of Chillon is not visible from Rosemont, and that Dickens in these first days must have mistaken some other object for it. "A long mass of mountain hides Chillon from view, and it only becomes visible when you get about six miles from Lausanne on the Vevay road, when a curve in the road or lake shows it visible behind the bank of mountains." The error at p. 257, now corrected, was mine.

247. "Clinking," the right word, replaces "drinking."

263. A passage which stood in the early editions is removed, the portrait which it referred to having been not that of the lady mentioned, but of a relative bearing the same name.

267, 268. I quote a letter to myself from one of the baronet's family present at the outbreak goodnaturedly exaggerated in Mr. Cerjat's account to Dickens. "I well remember the dinner at Mr. Cerjat's alluded to in one of the letters from Lausanne in your Life of Dickens. It was not however our first acquaintance with the 'distinguished writer,' as he came with his family to stay at a Pension on the border of the Lake of Geneva where my father and his family were then living, and notwithstanding the gallant captain's 'habit' the families subsequently became very intimate."

270. Lord Vernon is more correctly described as the fifth Baron, who succeeded to the title in 1835 and died in 1866 in his 64th year.

283. The distance of Mont Blanc from the Neuchâtel road is now properly given as sixty not six miles.

341, second line from bottom. Not "subsequent" but "modified" is the proper word.

398. In mentioning the painters who took an interest in the Guild scheme I omitted the distinguished name of Mr. E. M. Ward, R.A., by whom an admirable design, taken from Defoe's life, was drawn for the card of membership.

455, 456. In supposing that the Child's Dream of a Star was not among Dickens's Reprinted Pieces, I fell into an error, which is here corrected.

468. I did not mean to imply that Lady Graham was herself a Sheridan. She was only connected with the family she so well "represented" by being the sister of the lady whom Tom Sheridan married.

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The incident at Mr. Hone's funeral quoted at pp. 31-33 from a letter to Mr. Felton written by Dickens shortly after the occurrence (2nd of March, 1843), and published, a year before my volume, in Mr. Field's Yesterdays with Authors (pp. 146-8), has elicited from the "Independent clergyman" referred to a counter statement of the alleged facts, of which I here present an abridgement, omitting nothing that is in any way material. "Though it is thirty years since . . . several who were present survive to this day, and have a distinct recollection of all that occurred. One of these is the writer of this article--another, the Rev. Joshua Harrison. . . . The Independent clergyman never wore bands, and had no Bible under his arm. . . . An account of Mr. Hone had appeared in some of the newspapers, containing an offensive paragraph to the effect that one 'speculation' having failed, Mr. Hone was disposed, and persuaded by the Independent clergyman, to try another, that other being 'to try his powers in the pulpit.' This was felt by the family to be an insult alike to the living and the dead. . . . Mr. Harrison's account is, that the Independent clergyman was observed speaking to Miss Hone about something apparently annoying to both, and that, turning to Mr. Cruikshank, he said 'Have you seen the sketch of Mr. Hone's life in the Herald?' Mr. C. replied 'Yes.' 'Don't you think it very discreditable? It is a gross reflection on our poor friend, as if he would use the most sacred things merely for a piece of bread; and it is a libel on me and the denomination I belong to, as if we could be parties to such a proceeding.' Mr. C. said in reply, 'I know something of the article, but what you complain of was not in it originally--it was an addition by another hand.' Mr. C. afterwards stated that he wrote the article, 'but not the offensive paragraph.' The vulgar nonsense put into the mouth of the clergyman by Mr. Dickens was wound up, it is said, by 'Let us pray' . . . but this cannot be true; and for this reason, the conversation with Mr. Cruikshank took place before the domestic service, and that service, according to Nonconformist custom, is always begun by reading an appropriate passage of Scripture. . . . Mr. Dickens says that while they were kneeling at prayer Mr. Cruikshank whispered to him what he relates. Mr. C. denies it; and I believe him. . . . In addition to the improbability, one of the company remembers that Mr. Dickens and Mr. Cruikshank did not sit together, and could not have knelt side by side." The reader must be left to judge between what is said of the incident in the text and these recollections of it after thirty years.

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At the close of the corrections to the first volume, prefixed to the second, the intention was expressed to advert at the end of the work to information, not in correction but in illustration of my text, forwarded by obliging correspondents who had been scholars at the Wellington House Academy (i. 74). But inexorable limits of space prevent, for the present, a fulfilment of this intention.

J. F.

PALACE GATE HOUSE, KENSINGTON, 22nd of January 1874.

INDEX.

A'BECKETT (GILBERT), at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 210; death of, iii. 119.

Aberdeen, reading at, iii. 234.

Actors and acting, i. 174, 175, 260, ii. 96, 103, 126-128, 176, 399, 401; at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 210; French, iii. 127-134.

Adams (John Quincey), i. 214, 349.

Adelphi theatre, Carol dramatized at the, ii. 96.

Africa, memorials of dead children in, iii. 293.

Agassiz (M.), iii. 389 note.

Agreements, literary, ii. 87, 88, iii. 240.

Ainsworth (Harrison), i. 118, 163, 181.

Alamode beef-house (Johnson's), i. 54.

Albany (U. S.), reading at, iii. 436 (and see 441).

Albaro, Villa Bagnerello at, ii. 113, 120; the sirocco at, ii. 114; Angus Fletcher's sketch of the villa, ii. 121; English servants at, ii. 123; tradespeople at, ii. 124, 125; dinner at French consul's, ii. 130-132; reception at the Marquis di Negri's, ii. 132.

Albert (Prince), i. 322 note; at Boulogne, iii. 108.

Alison (Dr.), i. 258, 260.

Alison (Sheriff), ii. 391.

All the Year Round, titles suggested for, iii. 241-243; first number of, iii. 244; success of, iii. 244; difference between Household Words and, iii. 245; tales in, by eminent writers, iii. 245; sale of Christmas numbers of, iii. 246; Dickens's detached papers in, iii. 247-249, 528; Charles Collins's papers in, iii. 257; projected story for, iii. 310, 462; new series of, iii. 462 note; change of plan in, iii. 462 note; Dickens's last paper in, iii. 528.

Allan (Sir William), i. 258, 260; ii. 475.

Allonby (Cumberland), iii. 173; landlady of inn at, iii. 173.

Allston (Washington), i. 331.

Amateur theatricals, i. 413-417; ii. 481; iii. 62-64.

Ambigu (Paris), Paradise Lost at the, iii. 130, 131.

America, visit to, contemplated by Dickens, i. 195; wide-spread knowledge of Dickens's writings in, i. 215, 216, iii. 384-386; eve of visit to, i. 284-291; visit to, decided, i. 285; proposed book about, i. 286; arrangements for journey, 286; rough passage to, i. 292-298; first impressions of, i. 299-309; hotels in, i. 304, iii. 390, 396, 412, 435; inns in, i. 344, 366 note, 393, 395, 400, 401, iii. 432; Dickens's popularity in, i. 307, iii. 388; second impressions of, i. 310-334; levees in, i. 312, 347, 365, 373, 386, 397; outcry against Dickens in, i. 319; slavery in, i. 327, 352-354, 395, ii. 103; international copyright agitation in, i. 329, 351, 408, 409; railway travelling in, i. 336, 368, iii. 398, 405, 435, 436; trying climate of, i. 347; "located" Englishmen in, i. 350; Dickens's dislike of, i. 351; canal-boat journeys in, i. 358-380; Dickens's real compliment to, i. 361; deference paid to ladies in, i. 374; duelling in, i. 396; Dickens's opinion of country and people of, in 1842, i. 350, 351 (and see 401, 402); in 1868, ii. 38, iii. 413-416; effect of Martin Chuzzlewit in, ii. 76, 77; desire in, to hear Dickens read, iii. 319; Mr. Dolby sent to, iii, 320; result of Dolby's visit, iii. 322, 323 note; revisited by Dickens, iii. 387-443; old and new friends in, iii. 389; profits of readings in, iii. 392; Fenianism in, iii. 397; newspapers in, iii. 400; planning the readings in, iii. 401; nothing lasts long in, iii. 401, 429; work of Dickens's staff in, iii. 410; the result of 34 readings in, iii. 415; Dickens's way of life in, iii. 416, 434, 437 note; value of a vote in, iii. 420; objection to coloured people in, iii. 420; female beauty in, iii. 432; total expenses of reading tour, and profits from readings, iii. 446 (and see 441, 442); Dickens's departure from, iii. 443; effect of Dickens's death in, iii. 384.

Americanisms, i. 303, 327, 370, 387, 410, 414, 415.

American Notes, choicest passages of, i. 362, 363; less satisfactory than Dickens's letters, i. 358, 359; in preparation, ii. 23, 24; proposed dedication of, ii. 27; rejected motto for, ii. 30; suppressed introductory chapter to, ii. 34-37; Jeffrey's opinion of, ii. 38; large sale of, 37, 38.

Americans, friendly, ii. 177; deaths of famous, since 1842, iii. 389 note; homage to Dickens by, iii. 465 note; French contrasted with, ii. 322.

Andersen (Hans), iii. 167.

Anniversary, a birthday, i. 113, 150, iii. 308, 508; a fatal, iii. 304, 376, 384.

Arnold (Dr.), Dickens's reverence for, ii. 150.

Arras (France), a religious Richardson's show at, iii. 273.

Art, conventionalities of, ii. 169; limitations of, in England, iii. 331; inferiority of English to French, iii. 146, 147.

Artists' Benevolent Fund dinner, iii. 236.

Ashburton (Lord), i. 329, 387.

Ashley (Lord) and ragged schools, i. 283; ii. 58, 493, 494.

Astley's, a visit from, iii. 164, 165; Mazeppa at, iii. 302 note.

As You Like It, French version of, iii. 132. Atlantic, card-playing on the, i. 295, 296.

Auber and Queen Victoria, iii. 135.

Austin (Henry), i. 182; iii. 244; secretary to the Sanitary Commission, ii. 385; death of, iii. 261, 262.

Australia, idea of settling in, entertained by Dickens, iii. 185; scheme for readings in, iii. 270 note (idea abandoned, iii. 272).

Austrian police, the, iii. 94, 95.

Authors, American, i. 319.

Authorship, disquietudes of, ii. 288, 289.

BABBAGE (CHARLES) ii. 108.

Bagot (Sir Charles), i. 412.

Balloon Club at Twickenham, i. 182 note.

Baltimore (U. S.), women of, iii. 418; readings at, iii. 418, 419, 427 (and see 441); white and coloured prisoners in Penitentiary at, iii. 419.

Bancroft (George), i. 305, ii. 467.

Banquets, Emile de Girardin's superb, iii. 139-141.

Bantams, reduced, iii. 251.

Barham (Rev. Mr.), ii. 175, 476.

Barnaby Rudge, agreement to write, i. 135 (and see 147, 148, 161-163, 177, 225); Dickens at work on, i. 186, 232-234, 239-244; agreement for, transferred to Chapman and Hall, i. 223-226; the raven in, i. 233-240; constraints of weekly publication, i. 243; close of, i. 244; the story characterised, i. 244-248.

Bartlett (Dr.) on slavery in America, i. 389.

Bath, a fancy about, iii. 451, 452.

Bathing, sea, Dickens's love of, ii. 28, 56, 138.

Battle of Life title suggested for the, ii. 251 (and see 295); contemplated abandonment of, ii. 289; writing of, resumed, ii. 293; finished, ii. 295; points in the story, 296; Jeffrey's opinion of the, ii. 303, 304; sketch of the story, ii. 304, 305; Dickens's own comments on, ii. 306; date of the story, 306; reply to criticism on, ii. 308; doubts as to third part of, ii. 309; dedication of, ii. 309; illustrated by Stanfield and Leech, 310; grave mistake made by Leech, ii. 311; dramatized, ii. 323.

Bayham-street, Camden town, Dickens's early life in, i. 30-42.

Beale (Mr.), a proposal from, iii. 196.

Beard (Mr. Carr), ii. 476; on Dickens's lameness, iii. 455; readings stopped by, iii. 456; in constant attendance on Dickens at his last readings, iii. 531 (and see 541).

Beard (Thos.), i. 92. 101, 102, iii. 256.

Beaucourt (M.), described by Dickens, iii. 99-102; his "Property," iii. 100; among the Putney market-gardeners, iii. 102; goodness of, iii. 120 note.

Bedrooms, American, i. 304, 313.

Beecher (Ward), iii. 410; readings in his church at Brooklyn, iii. 417.

Beer, a dog's fancy for, iii. 217 note.

Beggars, Italian, ii. 183, 184.

Begging-letter writers, i. 228, ii. 106, 107; in Paris, ii. 327.

Belfast, reading at, iii. 229.

Benedict (Jules), illness of, ii. 466.

Bentley (Mr.), Dickens's early relations with, i. 134, 135, 141, 147, 148, 161, 163, 224, iii. 240; friendly feeling of Dickens to, in after life, ii 481, iii. 241.

Bentley's Miscellany, Dickens editor of, i. 121; proposal to write Barnaby Rudge in, i. 148; editorship of, transferred to Mr. Ainsworth, i. 163, 164.

Berwick, Mary (Adelaide Procter), iii. 495

Berwick-on-Tweed, reading at, iii. 266.

Betting-men at Doncaster, iii. 174-176.

Beverley (William), at Wellington-house academy, i. 84.

Birds and low company, iii. 251, 252.

Birmingham, Dickens's promise to read at, iii. 56; promise fulfilled (first public readings), iii. 59; another reading at, iii. 311; Dickens's speeches at Institute at, ii. 94, 95, iii. 527.

Birthday associations, i. 113, 150, iii. 308, 508.

Black (Adam), i. 259.

Black (Charles), ii. 476.

Black (John), i. 100, ii. 104; early appreciation by, of Dickens, i. 106; dinner to, ii. 53.

Blacking-warehouse (at Hungerford Stairs), Dickens employed at, i. 50; described, i. 51 (and see iii. 512 note); associates of Dickens at, i. 52; removed to Chandos-street, Covent-garden, i. 67; Dickens leaves, i. 68; what became of the business, i. 70.

Blackmore (Edward), Dickens employed as clerk by, i. 87; his recollections of Dickens, i. 87.

Blackpool, Dickens at, iii. 455.

Blackwood's Magazine and Little Dorrit, iii. 163.

Blair (General), iii. 424.

Blanchard (Laman). ii. 162, 175 (and see 187); a Literary Fund dinner described by, i. 322 note.

Bleak House begun, ii. 441; originals of Boythorn and Skimpole in, iii. 25-28; inferior to Copperfield, iii. 32; handling of character in, iii. 40-50; defects of, iii. 44; Dean Ramsay on, iii. 47; originals of Chancery abuses in, iii. 50; proposed titles for, iii. 52 note; completion of, iii. 51; sale of, iii. 53.

Blessington (Lady), lines written for, ii. 52 note (and see 93).

Blind Institution at Lausanne, inmates of, ii. 235, 240, iii. 78.

Bonchurch, Dickens at, ii. 425-436; effect of climate of, ii. 431-433; entertainment at, iii. 111, 112 note.

Books, written and unwritten, hints for, iii. 275-297; suggested titles in Memoranda for new, iii. 293, 294; a complete list of Dickens's, iii. 547-560.

Booksellers, invitation to, ii. 100 note.

Boots, absurdity of, i. 314.

Boots, a gentlemanly, at Calais, i. 136; a patriotic Irish, iii. 227.

Boots at the Holly-tree Inn, iii. 154; reading of, at Boston (U. S.), iii. 410.

Bores, American, i. 375, 376, 383, 384, 385.

Boston (U. S.), first visit to, i. 300-309; enthusiastic reception at, i. 301; dinner at, i. 312; changes in, since 1842, iii. 390; first reading in, iii. 391; a remembrance of Christmas at, iii. 399; walking-match at, iii. 427; audiences at, iii. 429; last readings at, iii. 440.

Bottle (Cruikshank's), Dickens's opinion of, ii. 384, 411.

Boulogne, an imaginary dialogue at, ii. 328, 329; Dickens at, iii. 55, 56, 59, 96-120; the Pier at, iii. 115; Dickens's liking for, iii. 56; M. Beaucourt's "Property" at, iii. 97-106, 115-120; sketch of M. Beaucourt, iii. 99-103; prices of provisions at, iii. 102 note; Shakespearian performance at, iii. 103; pig-market at, iii. 104; Thackeray at, iii. 105 note; camp at, iii. 106, 107, 116; Prince Albert at, iii. 107, 108; illuminations at, iii. 109; epidemic at, iii. 119.

Boulogne Jest Book, iii. 65 note.

Bouquets, serviceable, iii. 137.

Bourse, victims of the, iii. 142.

Boxall (William), ii. 475, iii. 126.

Boxing-match, a, ii. 224.

Boyle (Mary), ii. 481, iii. 524.

Boys, a list of Christian names of, iii. 294, 295.

Boz, origin of the word, i. 104; facsimile of autograph signature, i. 276.

Bradbury & Evans (Messrs.), ii. 66, 67, 68, 105, 250; a suggestion by, ii. 71; Dickens's agreements with, ii. 88 (and see 289), iii. 56.

Bradford, Dickens asked to read at, iii. 61 note.

Brighton, Dickens's first visit to, i. 138; other visits, ii. 421, 422, 455; theatre at, i. 138; reading at, iii. 263.

Bride of Lammermoor (Scott's), composition of the, iii. 339, 340.

British Museum reading-room, frequented by Dickens, i. 90.

Broadstairs, Dickens at, i. 136, 137, 176, 204, 277-283, ii. 55, 214 note, 387-389, 405-421, 422-424, 436-441; Nickleby completed at, i. 176; Dickens's house at, i. 205; writing American Notes at, ii. 23; pony-chaise accident, ii. 418, 419; smuggling at, ii. 439.

Brobity's (Mr.) snuff-box, iii. 297.

Brooklyn (New York), scene at, iii. 411; readings in Mr. Ward Beecher's chapel, iii. 417.

Brougham (Lord), in Paris, ii. 316, 317; the "Punch people" and, ii. 469.

Browne (H. K.) chosen to illustrate Pickwick, i. 115; accompanies Dickens and his wife to Flanders, i. 135; failure of, in a Dombey illustration, ii. 354, 355 (but see 348, 349); sketch by, for Micawber, ii. 435; his sketch of Skimpole, iii. 53.

Browning's (R. B.) Blot on the 'Scutcheon, Dickens's opinion of, ii. 46.

Bruce (Knight), ii. 97.

Brunel (Isambard), ii. 469.

Buckingham Palace, Dickens at, iii. 508.

Buffalo (U. S.), reading at, iii. 432.

Buller (Charles), ii. 53.

Burdett (Sir Francis), advocacy of the poor, i. 250.

Burns festival, Prof. Wilson's speech at the, ii. 136.

Buss (Mr.), Pickwick illustrations by, i. 115.

Byron's (Lord) Ada, ii. 469.

ÇA IRA, the revolutionary tune of, iii. 129.

Cambridge, reading at, iii. 317.

Cambridge (U. S.) and Boston contrasted, iii. 390; the Webster murder at, iii. 402, 403.

Camden-town, Dickens with Mrs. Roylance at, i. 55.

Campbell (Lord), i. 322 note; on the writings of Dickens, iii. 72 and note; death of, iii. 247 note.

Canada, emigrants in, ii. 28, 29.

Canal-boat journeys in America, i. 358-380; a day's routine on, i. 366, 367; disagreeables of, i. 367; a pretty scene on board, i. 390-392.

Cannibalism, an approach to, ii. 326.

Cannon-row, Westminster, incident at public-house in, i. 63.

Canterbury, reading at, iii. 264.

Car-driver, an Irish, iii. 225, 226 note.

Carlyle (Lord), ii. 469.

Carlisle (Bishop of) and Colenso, iii. 248 note.

Carlyle (Thomas), ii. 110, 135, 160, 162, 174; a strange profane story, i. 130; on international copyright, i. 332-334; Dickens's admiration of, i. 334 (and see ii. 470); a correction for, ii. 440; on Dickens's acting, iii. 72; grand teaching of, iii. 204; inaugural address of, at Edinburgh University, iii. 308; hint by, to common men, iii. 326; on humour, iii. 342; a hero to Dickens, iii. 520; on Dickens's death, iii. 514, 515 (and see ii. 110).

Carlyle (Mrs.), on the expression in Dickens's face, i. 119; death of, iii. 308; Dickens's last meeting, iii. 309.

Carriage, an unaccommodating, ii. 232; a wonderful, ii. 270.

Carrick Fell (Cumberland), ascent of, iii. 170, 171; accident on, iii. 171.

Castle Spectre, a judicious "tag" to the, ii. 471.

Catholicism, Roman, the true objection to, ii. 299.

Cattermole (George), i. 181, 197, ii. 113 note; imitation of a cabstand waterman by, ii. 423 note.

Caudle Lectures, a suggestion for the, ii. 136 note.

Cerjat (Mr.), ii. 232 (and see iii. 567), 252.

Chalk (Kent), Dickens's honeymoon spent at, i. 108; revisited, i. 119.

Chambers, contemplated chapters on, i. 194.

Chamounix, Dickens's trip to, ii. 253-256; revisited, iii. 76, 77; narrow escape of Egg at, iii. 77.

Chancery, Dickens's experience of a suit in, ii. 97-99; originals of the abuses exposed in Bleak House, iii. 49, 50.

Channing (Dr.) on Dickens, i. 302, 308, 309.

Chapman and Hall, overtures to Dickens by, i. 109; advise purchase of the Sketches copyright from Mr. Macrone, i. 124; early relations of Dickens with, i. 144, 145; share of copyright in Pickwick conceded by, i. 145; payments by, for Pickwick and Nicholas Nickleby, i. 145; outline of Master Humphrey's Clock submitted to, i. 192-197; purchase of Barnaby Rudge by, i. 225; Dickens's earliest and latest publishers, iii. 240.

Chapman (Mr. Thomas), not the original of Mr. Dombey, ii. 107 (and see 108).

Chappell (Messrs.), agreements with, iii. 306, 309, 310; arrangement with, for course of final readings, iii. 437 note (and see 445); amount received from, on account of readings, iii. 446; Dickens's tribute to, iii. 531 note (and see 315).

Charles Dickens as a Reader (Charles Kent's), iii. 236 note.

Chatham, Dickens's early impressions of, i. 23, 34; day-school in Rome-lane, i. 27 note; Mr. Giles's school at, i. 32, 33.

Cheeryble (Brothers) in Nickleby, originals of, i. 181.

Chester, readings at, iii. 268, 313.

Chesterton (Mr.), i. 280, ii. 23.

Chicago (U. S.), monomania respecting, iii. 418.

Chigwell, inn at, i. 239.

Children, powers of observation in, i. 23, 27; mortality of young, in London, iii. 192 note, 293; old, iii. 292.

Children-farming, Dickens on, iii. 287, 288 note.

Child's History, the, finished, iii. 59.

Child's night-lights, wonders of, iii. 172.

Chillon, Castle of, ii. 229, 257, 258.

Chimes, a title found for the, ii. 143; design for, ii. 144; Dickens hard at work on, ii. 150; first outline of the, ii. 152-155; effect of, on Dickens's health, ii. 156, 157; objections to, ii. 160; finished, ii. 161; private readings of, at Lincoln's-inn fields, ii. 162, 174, 175; Jeffrey's opinion of the, ii. 179.

Chimneys, the smoky, i. 221.

Chinese Junk, ii. 405-408.

Chorley (Henry), iii. 256.

Christmas, Dickens's identity with, ii. 90.

Christmas-eve and day, Dickens's accustomed walk on, iii. 517.

Christmas Carol, origin of, ii. 60; preparation of, ii. 71, 72; sale and accounts of, ii. 85-87; Jeffrey and Thackeray on, ii. 89; message of the, ii. 89; the story characterized, ii. 91; dramatized at the Adelphi, ii. 96; reading of, for the Hospital for Sick Children, iii. 200; reading of, in Boston (U. S.), iii. 429, 430; Thackeray's copy of, purchased by her Majesty, iii. 506 note.

Christmas Sketches, Dickens's, iii. 370, 371.

Christmas sports, ii. 47 note.

Cicala, the, ii. 118.

Cincinnati (U. S.), i. 378; described, i. 379, 380; temperance festival at, i. 383; bores at, i. 385.

Circumlocution Office, the, iii. 159.

Clay (Henry), i. 348, 349; on international copyright, i. 323.

Clennam (Mrs.), in Little Dorrit, original of, iii. 277.

Cleveland (U. S.), rude reception of mayor of, i. 403.

Coachman, a Paris, ii. 332 note.

Cobham-park, i. 224, 288; Dickens's last walk in, iii. 540.

Cockburn (Sir Alexander), iii. 126.

Coffee-shops frequented by Dickens, i. 56.

Cogswell (Mr.), ii. 476, 477.

Coincidence, marvels of, iii. 174, 175, 524.

Col de Balme Pass, ii. 253.

Colden (David), i. 315, 316, ii. 192 note, 476.

Colenso (Bishop) and the Bishop of Carlisle, iii. 248 note.

Coleridge (Sara) on Little Nell, iii. 345 note; on Chuzzlewit, iii. 345 note.

Collier (Payne) and Dickens in Hungerford Market, iii. 512 note.

Collins (Charles Alston), marriage of, to Kate Dickens, iii. 255; books by, iii. 257; on Dickens's accompaniments of work, iii. 211 note; cover designed by, for Edwin Drood, iii. 466; death of, iii. 258.

Collins (Wilkie), Dickens's regard for, ii. 402; holiday trip of, with Dickens and Egg, iii. 76-95; at Boulogne, iii. 106; in Paris, iii. 126; in Cumberland, iii. 170-173; accident to, on Carrick Fell, iii. 171; tales by, in All the Year Round, iii. 245; at his brother's wedding, iii. 256.

Colquhoun (Mr.), i. 258.

Columbus (U. S.), levee at, i. 398.

Commercial Travellers' schools, admired by Dickens, iii. 247.

Commons, House of, Dickens's opinion of, i. 103, iii. 499.

Conjuror, a French, iii. 110-115.

Consumption, hops a supposed cure for, iii. 208.

Conversion, a wonderful, ii. 180 note.

Cooke, Mr. (of Astley's), iii. 164, 165.

Cooling Castle, ruins of, iii. 206, 220.

Cooling churchyard, Dickens's partiality for, iii. 221.

Copyright, international, Dickens's views on, i. 311, 318, 322, 332, 349, 360, ii. 50; Henry Clay on, i. 323; petition to American Congress on, i. 328, 351; Carlyle on, i. 332-334; two obstacles to, i. 408, 409 (and see ii. 26); result of agitation, i. 322.

Corduroy-road, a, i. 398, 399.

Cornwall (Barry), ii. 187, iii. 27 (and see 495, 530).

Cornwall, Dickens's trip to, ii. 40-43.

Costello (Dudley), fancy sketch of, ii. 383.

Coutts, Miss (Baroness Burdett-Coutts), great regard for, ii. 58; true friendship of, ii. 323; generosity of, ii. 109 note, 488, iii. 300 (and see ii. 179).

Covent-garden theatre, Macready at, i. 140, 185; farce written by Dickens for, i. 183; dinner at the close of Mr. Macready's management, i. 185; the editor of the Satirist hissed from stage of, ii. 50; Dickens applies for an engagement at, ii. 206.

Coventry, gold repeater presented to Dickens by watchmakers of, iii. 237 (and see 562).

Crawford (Sir George), ii. 172.

Cricket on the Hearth, origin of the, ii. 201-204; Dickens busy on, ii. 215; reading of, in Ary Scheffer's studio, iii. 148.

Crimean war, unpopular in France, iii. 110, 127, 143.

Cruikshank (George), illustrations by, to Sketches, i. 113; claim by, to the origination of Oliver Twist, i. 154-156, ii. 347, 348, 350, 351 note (and see autograph letter of Dickens, ii. 349, 350, and p. vii. of vol. ii.); fancy sketch of, ii. 379, 381; Dickens's opinion of his Bottle and Drunkard's Children, ii. 384, 410, 411.

Cruize on Wheels (Charles Collins's), iii, 257.

Cumberland, Dickens's trip in, iii. 170-173.

Cunningham, Peter, character and life, iii. 73, 74.

Curry (Mr.), ii. 125, 158, 172.

Custom-house-officers (continental), ii. 172, 173, 315.

Daily News projected, ii. 203; misgiving as to, ii. 215-217; first number of, ii. 218; Dickens's short editorship, ii. 215-219; succeeded by author of this book, ii. 220, 302, 303.

Dana (R. H.), i. 304.

Danson (Dr. Henry), recollections by, of Dickens at school, i. 81-85; letter from Dickens to, i. 85 note.

Dansons (the), at work, iii. 166.

David Copperfield, identity of Dickens with hero of, i. 50-69; iii. 33-36; characters and incidents in, iii. 21-40; original of Dora in, i. 93; name found for, ii. 422; dinners in celebration of, ii. 438, 439, 470; sale of, ii. 447; titles proposed for, ii. 463-465; progress of, ii. 483-487; Lord Lytton on, iii. 21; popularity of, iii. 22; original of Miss Moucher in, iii. 23; original of Mr. Micawber in, iii. 30-32; Bleak House inferior to, iii. 32; a proposed opening of, iii. 155; fac-simile of plan prepared for first number of, iii. 157.

De Foe (Daniel), Dickens's opinion of, iii. 135 note; his History of the Devil, i. 139.

Delane (John), ii. 469.

Denman (Lord), ii. 108.

Devonshire (Duke of) and the Guild of Literature and Art, ii. 397.

Devonshire-terrace, Dickens removes from Doughty-street into, i. 186; Maclise's sketch of Dickens's house in, iii. 41.

Dick, a favourite canary, iii. 117.

Dickens (John), family of, i. 22; small but good library of, i. 29; money embarrassments of, i. 36, 42; character of, described by his son, i. 37; arrested for debt, i. 43; legacy to, i. 64; leaves the Marshalsea, i. 66; on the education of his son, i. 89; becomes a reporter, i. 90; Devonshire home of, described, i. 186-189; death of, ii. 489; his grave at Highgate, ii. 490; sayings of, iii. 31, 32; respect entertained by his son for, iii. 31.

Dickens (Fanny), ii. 206, 456, 459; elected a pupil to the Royal Academy of Music, i. 39; obtains a prize thereat, i. 66; illness of, ii. 319, 320; death of, ii. 460; her funeral, i. 67.

Dickens (Alfred), i. 223, 288; death of, iii. 258.

Dickens, Augustus, (died in America), ii. 385.

Dickens (Frederick), i. 182, 261, 288 (and see ii. 476); narrow escape from drowning in the bay at Genoa, ii. 137; death of, iii. 450.

DICKENS, CHARLES, birth of, at Portsea, i. 21. reminiscences of childhood at Chatham, i. 23-36. relation of David Copperfield to, i. 28, 48, 92; iii. 33-35. his wish that his biography should be written by the author of this book, i. 40 note. first efforts at description, i. 42. account by himself of his boyhood, i. 50-69 (and see ii. 205-207; iii. 247). illnesses of, i. 60, 130, 244, 288; ii. 216, 297, 312 note; iii. 304, 305, 306, 311, 312, 313, 315, 321, 355, 375, 404, 410, 412, 416, 426, 427, 437, 441, 450. clerk in an attorney's office, i. 87. hopeless love of, i. 92, 93. employed as a parliamentary reporter, i. 96 (and see iii. 512 note). his first attempts in literature, i. 97. his marriage, i. 108. writes for the stage, i. 116 (and see 140, 183). predominant impression of his life, i. 120, 405; ii. 147-150; iii. 524, 525. personal habits of, i. 132, 133, 224, 368, 376, 377, 400; ii. 216, 225, 324; iii. 215-218, 513. relations of, with his illustrators, i. 154-156; ii. 347, 348. portraits of, i. 178 note; iii. 148-150, 238. curious epithets given by, to his children, i. 182 note; ii. 248 note, 266 note, 314, 315, 324 note; iii. 100 (and see i. 261, 306, 331, 356, 418). his ravens, i. 233-239; ii. 215. adventures in the Highlands, i. 263-276. first visit to the United States, i. 284. domestic griefs of, i. 289. an old malady of, i. 288; iii. 314, 534. an admirable stage manager, i. 414-417; ii. 210, 212-214, 370, 371, 393 note, 400, 401. his dogs, ii. 24, 25, 134 note; iii. 144 note, 217-220, 222. his Will, ii. 59, 60 (and see iii. 561). his accompaniments of work, ii. 48, 121, 240; iii. 211, 212 note. religious views of, ii. 59, 60, 147-150; iii. 484-486. turning-point of his career, ii. 72. writing in the Chronicle, ii. 105. fancy sketch of his biographer, ii. 383. sea-side holidays of, ii. 403-441; iii. 96-120. Italian travels, ii. 111-200; iii. 78-95. craving for crowded streets, ii. 144, 151, 277, 281, 313. political opinions of, ii. 146; iii. 498-503 (and see 528). wish to become an actor, ii. 205. his long walks, ii. 158, 230 note, 312 note; iii. 249, 515-517. first desire to become a public reader, ii. 174, 284; iii. 60, 61. edits the Daily News, ii. 218. his home in Switzerland, ii. 225, 226. residence in Paris, ii. 316-336, iii. 121-153. underwriting numbers, ii. 335 note, 362; iii. 377, 466. overwriting numbers, ii. 342, 343, 356. first public readings, iii. 60. revisits Switzerland and Italy, iii. 76-95. his birds, iii. 117, 118. home disappointments, iii. 177-201 (and see 512). separation from his wife, iii. 200. purchases Gadshill-place, iii. 205. first paid Readings, iii. 223-238. second series of Readings, iii. 255-274. third series of Readings, iii. 298-324. revisits America, iii. 387-443. memoranda for stories first jotted down by, iii. 180 (and see 275-297). his "violated letter," iii. 201, 231. favourite walks of, iii. 209, 220-222. his mother's death, iii. 300. his first attack of lameness, iii. 304 (and see 312, 321, 376, 437, 442 note, 453, 455, 456, 509, 514, 530, 537). general review of his literary labours, iii. 325-386, 380-386. effect of his death in America, iii. 384. last readings of, iii. 444-460. noticeable changes in, iii. 447, 455, 534. comparison of his early and his late MSS., iii. 466, 468, 469. personal characteristics of, iii. 478-526. his interview with the Queen, iii. 507, 508. strain and excitement at the final readings at St. James's Hall, iii. 532. last days at Gadshill, iii. 539, 543. a tribute of gratitude to, for his books, iii. 538, 539. general mourning for, iii. 542. burial in Westminster Abbey, iii. 544. unbidden mourners at grave, iii. 544.

Dickens (Mrs.), i. 108, 135, 252, 264, 273, 287, 290, 294, 299, 304, 313, 318, 336, 344, 348, 349, 373, 375, 387, 397, 403, 404, 411, 413-415, ii. 140, 149, 163, 165, iii. 113; reluctance to leave England, i. 287; an admirable traveller, i. 397; Maclise's portrait of, ii. 44; the separation, iii. 200 (and see 562, 564.)

Dickens (Charles, jun.), i. 257, 331, ii. 179; birth of, i. 119; illness of, ii. 335; education of, ii. 323, iii. 57 note; marriage of, iii. 262.

Dickens (Mary), birth of, i. 149 (and see ii. 471, iii. 561).

Dickens (Kate), birth of, i. 186 (and see ii. 470); illness of, ii. 122; marriage of, iii. 255.

Dickens (Walter Landor), death of, i. 250 (and see iii. 300, 301).

Dickens (Francis Jeffrey), birth of, ii. 61.

Dickens (Alfred Tennyson), ii. 215.

Dickens (Lieut. Sydney), death of, at sea, ii. 369 note.

Dickens (Henry Fielding), birth of, ii. 462; acting of, iii. 63; scholarship at Cambridge won by, iii. 529 (and see iii. 562).

Dickens (Edward Bulwer Lytton), birth of, iii. 54.

Dickens (Dora Annie), birth of, ii. 487; death of, ii. 492; her grave at Highgate, ii. 493, iii. 52.

Dickens in Camp (Bret Harte's), i. 215, 216.

Dilke (Charles Wentworth), i. 47, 48; death of, iii. 303 note.

Dilke (Sir Charles), ii. 437.

Disraeli (Mr.), iii. 537.

Doctors, Dickens's distrust of, ii. 433.

Doctors' Commons, Dickens reporting in, i. 92 (and see ii. 219, iii. 39).

Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, large sale of, ii. 87 note; Dickens's faith in, iii. 307; how written, iii. 379; success of the reading of, at New York, iii. 409, 410.

Dogs, Dickens's, ii. 24, 25, 134 note, iii. 144 note, 217-220, 222; effect of his sudden lameness upon, iii. 518.

Dolby (Miss), ii. 475.

Dolby, Mr. (Dickens's manager) sent to America, iii. 320; troubles of, iii. 394, 400, 408, 411, 412; the most unpopular man in America, iii. 394; care and kindness of, iii. 441; commission received by, iii. 446.

Dombey and Son, original of Mrs. Pipchin in, i. 55, ii. 355; begun at Rosemont, ii. 241; Dickens at work on, ii. 249, 250, 266, 297, 314; general idea for, ii. 250; hints to artist, ii. 250; a reading of first number of, ii. 283; large sale of, ii. 296, 353 (and see 447); a number under written, ii. 335 note; charwoman's opinion of, ii. 335, 336; plan of, ii. 337-341; progress of, ii. 341-367; artist-fancies for Mr. Dombey, ii. 345, 346; passage of original MS. omitted, ii. 343, 344 note; a reading of second number of, ii. 353 (and see 257, 281); Jeffrey on, ii. 358, 359 and note, 358; characters in, and supposed originals of, ii. 362-367 (and see 107); profits of, ii. 384; translated into Russian, ii. 448.

Doncaster, the race-week at, iii. 174-176; a "groaning phantom" at, iii. 174.

Dora, a real, i. 92, 93; changed to Flora in Little Dorrit, i. 94.

D'Orsay (Count) and Roche the courier, ii. 204 note; death of, iii. 55.

Doughty-street, Dickens removes to, i. 119; incident of, iii. 252.

Dover, Dickens at, iii. 54, 55; reading at, iii. 264; storm at, iii. 264.

Dowling (Vincent), i. 101.

Dramatic College, Royal, Dickens's interest in the, iii. 236.

Dream, a vision in a, ii. 148-150 (and see iii. 522-524); President Lincoln's, iii. 423.

Drunkard's Children (Cruikshank's), Dickens's opinion of, ii. 410, 411.

Drury-lane theatre, opening of, ii. 30.

Dublin, Dickens's first impressions of, iii. 225; humorous colloquies at Morrison's hotel in, iii. 227, 228; reading in, iii. 317 (and see 226 note, 228).

Duelling in America, i. 396.

Dumas (Alexandre), tragedy of Kean by, ii. 127 (and see iii. 491 note); his Christine, ii. 176; a supper with, ii. 331.

Dundee, reading at, iii. 233.

Du Plessis (Marie), death of, ii. 333.

Dyce (Alexander), ii. 473.

EDEN in Martin Chuzzlewit, original of, i. 363, 369; a worse swamp than, ii. 77.

Edinburgh, public dinner in, to Dickens, i. 249-262; presentation of freedom of, i. 257 (and see iii. 197); wassail-bowl presented after Carol reading, iii. 197; readings at, iii. 233, 267, 451, and 450 note; Scott monument at, ii. 392.

Editorial troubles and pleasures, iii. 493.

Editors, American, incursion of, i. 300.

Education, two kinds of, i. 89; Dickens's speeches on, ii. 95.

Edwin Drood, clause inserted in agreement for, iii. 461 note; sale of, iii. 461 note; amount paid for, iii. 461 note; first fancy for, iii. 462; the story as planned in Dickens's mind, iii. 463, 464; Longfellow on, iii. 464; merits of, iii. 464, 465; facsimile of portion of final page of, iii. 466 (and see 468); an unpublished scene for, iii. 467-476; original of the opium-eater in, iii. 528; a reading of a number of, iii. 530.

Egg (Augustus), fancy sketch of, ii. 383; holiday trip of, with Dickens and Wilkie Collins, iii. 76-95; narrow escape at Chamounix, iii. 77.

Electric message, uses for an, iii. 282.

Eliot (George), Dickens's opinion of her first book, ii. 47.

Elliotson (Dr.), i. 270, ii. 109, 313.

Elton (Mr.), Dickens's exertions for family of, ii. 55.

Elwin (Rev. Whitwell), allusion to, ii. 462.

Emerson (Ralph Waldo), ii. 476.

Emigrants in Canada, ii. 28, 29.

Emigration schemes, Dickens's belief in, ii. 262.

Emmanuel (Victor), visit of, to Paris, iii. 127.

Englishmen abroad, ii. 223, 252, 266-271.

Engravings, Dickens on, ii. 167, 168 note.

Evening Chronicle, sketches contributed by Dickens to, i. 105.

Evenings of a Working-man (John Overs'), ii. 109.

Every Man in his Humour, private performances of, at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 209, 211 (and see iii. 537).

Examiner, articles by Dickens in the, i. 185.

Executions, public, letter against, ii. 479.

Exeter, reading at, iii. 224.

Eye-openers, iii. 409.

FACSIMILES: of letter written in boyhood by Dickens, i. 79; of the autograph signature "Boz," i. 276; of New York invitations to Dickens, i. 308-309; of letter to George Cruikshank, ii. 349, 350; of plan prepared for first numbers of Copperfield and Little Dorrit, iii. 157, 158; of portion of last page of Edwin Drood, iii. 468 (and see 488); of Oliver Twist, iii. 469.

Fairbairn (Thomas), letter of Dickens to, on posthumous honours, iii. 487.

Fatal Zero (Percy Fitzgerald's), iii. 495.

Faucit (Helen), ii. 475.

Fechter (Mr.), châlet presented by, to Dickens, iii. 211, 212; Dickens's friendly relations with, iii. 302.

Feline foes, iii. 117, 118.

Felton (Cornelius C.), i. 304, 315, 320, ii. 192 note; death of, iii. 269 note.

Fenianism in Ireland, iii. 316, 317 note; in America, iii. 397 (and see 508).

Fermoy (Lord), iii. 522.

Fêtes at Lausanne, ii. 246, 258.

Fiction, realities of, iii. 346-363.

Field (Kate), Pen Photographs by, iii. 236 note.

Fielding (Henry), real people in novels of, iii. 22; episodes introduced by, in his novels, iii. 161; Dr. Johnson's opinion of, iii. 346; M. Taine's opinion of, iii. 348.

Fields (James T.), Yesterdays with Authors by, ii. 42 note; on Dickens's health in America, iii. 404, 405; at Gadshill, iii. 527, 528.

Fiesole, Landor's villa at, ii. 189 note.

Fildes (S. L.), chosen to illustrate Edwin Drood, iii. 467.

Finality, a type of, ii. 408.

Finchley, cottage at, rented by Dickens, ii. 51.

Fine Old English Gentleman, political squib by Dickens, i. 278, 279.

Fireflies in Italy, ii. 196, and note.

Fires in America, frequency of, iii. 399, 400.

Fitzgerald (Percy), iii. 218; a contributor in All the Year Round, iii. 245; personal liking of Dickens for, iii. 495.

"Fix," a useful word in America, i. 370.

Flanders, Dickens's trip to, i. 135.

Fletcher, (Angus), i. 254, 263, 274; stay of, with Dickens at Broadstairs, i. 228; anecdotes of, i. 262, 263, 264 note, 269 (and see ii. 113, 120, 144, 182, 193, 194 note); pencil sketch by, of the Villa Bagnerello at Albaro, ii. 121; death of, ii. 194 note.

Flies, plague of, at Lausanne, ii. 244, 245 note.

Fonblanque (Albany), i. 113, ii. 53, 162; wit of, ii. 175, 467, iii. 349.

Footman, a meek, ii. 194.

Fortescue (Miss), ii. 96.

Fortnightly Review, Mr. Lewes's critical essay on Dickens in, iii. 332-338.

Fowls, eccentric, iii. 251, 252.

Fox (William Johnson), ii. 53.

Fox-under-the-hill (Strand), reminiscence of, i. 62.

Franklin (Lady), iii. 519.

Fraser (Peter), ii. 475.

Freemasons' Hall, banquet to Dickens at, iii. 324.

Freemasons' secret, a, ii. 440.

Free-trade, Lord "Gobden" and, ii. 312.

French and Americans contrasted, ii. 322.

Frescoes, perishing, ii. 119; at the Palazzo Peschiere, ii. 140 note, 141; Maclise's, for the Houses of Parliament, iii. 536 note.

Friday, important incidents of Dickens's life connected with, ii. 441, iii. 205, 419, &c.

Frith (W. P.), portrait of Dickens by, iii. 238.

Funeral, scene at a, ii. 31-33; an English, in Italy, ii. 193.

Furnival's inn, room in, where the first page of Pickwick was written, iii, 528.

GADSHILL PLACE, a vision of boyhood at, i. 24 (and see iii. 204); Dick's tomb at, iii. 117 note; first description of, iii. 202; sketch of porch at, iii. 204; purchase of, iii. 205; antecedents of, iii. 207; improvements and additions at, iii. 208-215; sketch of Châlet at, iii. 212; nightingales at, iii. 212; Dickens's daily life at, iii. 215-222; sketch of house and conservatory, iii. 216; Study at, iii. 222; games at, for the villagers, iii. 510, 511; Dickens's last days at, iii. 539-542.

Gambler's Life, Lemaitre's acting in the, iii. 122-124.

Gamp (Mrs.), original of, ii. 51; a masterpiece of English humour, ii. 83, 84; with the Strollers, ii. 376-384.

Gaskell (Mrs.), ii. 454, 470, iii. 54.

Gasman's compliment to Dickens, iii. 265 (and see 441).

Gautier (Théophile), ii. 331.

Geneva, Dickens at, ii. 288; revolution at, ii. 298-301; aristocracy of, ii. 299.

Genoa described, ii. 125-128; theatres at, ii. 127, 128 (and see iii. 491 note); religious houses at, ii. 128; rooms in the Palazzo Peschiere hired by Dickens, ii. 129; view over, ii. 141; Governor's levee at, ii. 144; an English funeral at, ii. 193; nautical incident at, ii. 195; revisited by Dickens, iii. 78-80.

George Silverman's Explanation, iii. 380 (and see 253 note).

Gibson (Milner), ii. 468.

Gilbert Massenger (Holme Lee's) remarks of Dickens on, iii. 493, 494.

Giles (William), i. 23; Dickens at the school kept by, i. 32, 33; snuff box presented to "Boz" by, i. 33.

Gipsy tracks, iii. 250.

Girardin (Emile de), iii. 142; banquets given by, in honour of Dickens, iii. 139-141.

Girls, American, i. 384, 385 note; Irish, iii. 226 note; list of Christian names of, iii. 294, 295.

Gladstone (Mr.), and Dickens, i. 103, iii. 537.

Glasgow, proposed dinner to Dickens at, i. 276; reading at, iii. 234; Dickens at meeting of Athenæum, ii. 390.

Glencoe, Pass of, i. 268, 271; effect of, on Dickens, i. 270.

Goldfinch, the, and his friend, iii. 252.

Gondoliers at Venice, habits of, iii. 90.

Gordon (Lord George), character of, i. 241.

Gordon (Sheriff), ii. 475.

Gore-house, a party at, ii. 334 note.

Gower-street-north, school in, opened by Dickens's mother, i. 43; a dreary home, i. 45, iii. 218; home broken up, i. 54.

Graham (Sir James), ii. 109.

Graham (Lady), ii. 468.

Grant (James), recollections of Dickens by, i. 101 (and see 108).

Graves, town, iii. 49, 52 note; Dickens's dislike to speech-making at, iii. 488.

Great Expectations, original of Satis-house in, iii. 220; germ of, iii. 361; the story characterized, iii. 362-369; close of, changed at Bulwer Lytton's suggestion, iii. 369, and note.

Great Malvern, cold-waterers at, ii. 487.

Greek war-ship, a, iii. 82.

Greeley (Horace), iii. 400, 442; on the effect in America of Dickens's death, iii. 384; on Dickens's fame as a novelist, iii. 388; a suggestion from, iii. 417.

Grey (Lord), recollection of, ii. 264, 265.

Grimaldi, Life of, edited by Dickens, i. 142; the editor's modest estimate of it, i. 142; criticisms on, i. 142, 143.

Grip, Dickens's raven, i. 220; death of, i. 234, 235; apotheosis, by Maclise, i. 237; a second Grip, i. 239.

Grisi (Madame), ii. 176.

Guild of Literature and Art, origin of, ii. 395; princely help of the Duke of Devonshire to, ii. 397 (and see iii. 488, 489).

HACHETTE (MM.), agreement with, for French translation of Dickens's works, iii. 125 note.

Haghe (Louis), iii. 85.

Haldimand (Mr.), seat of, at Lausanne, ii, 232.

Halévy (M.), dinner to, ii. 469.

Halifax, the "Britannia" aground off, i. 297; the house of assembly at, i. 299.

Hall (Mr. and Mrs. S. C.), ii. 475.

Hall (William), funeral of, ii. 369.

Hallam (Henry), loquacity of, ii. 251.

Halleck (Fitz-Greene) on Dickens, iii. 482 note.

Halliday (Andrew), iii. 529.

Hamlet, an emendation for, ii. 389; performance of, at Preston, iii. 70.

Hampstead Heath, Dickens's partiality for, i. 133, ii. 101.

Hampstead-road, Mr. Jones's school in the, i. 74.

Hansard (Mr.), letter from, concerning Mr. Macrone, ii. 442, 443 note.

Hardwick (John), ii. 468.

Hard Times, proposed names for, iii. 65, and note; title chosen, iii. 65; written for Household Words, iii. 66; Ruskin's opinion of, iii. 66, 67.

Harley (Mr.), ii. 475.

Harness (Rev. Wm.), ii. 162, 175, 473.

Harrogate, reading at, iii. 230.

Harte (Bret), Dickens on, i. 214; tribute by, to Dickens, i. 215, 216.

Hartford (U. S.) levee at, i. 313.

Harvard and Oxford crews, the, iii. 527.

Hastings, reading at, iii. 264.

Hatton-garden, Dickens at, iii. 25.

Haunted Man, first idea of, ii. 280; large sale of, ii. 443; dramatized, ii. 443; teachings and moral of the story, ii. 443-446; the christening dinner, ii. 468.

Hawthorne (N.), Dickens on, ii. 440.

Hayes (Catherine), ii. 468.

Heaven, ambition to see into, ii. 477.

Helps (Arthur), iii. 245; In Memoriam by, iii. 509.

Hereditary transmission, iii. 179 note (and see 493).

Highgate, Dora's grave at, ii. 493, iii. 52.

Highlands, Dickens's adventures in the, i. 263-276.

Hogarth, Dickens on, ii. 413, 414.

Hogarth (George), i. 105; Dickens marries eldest daughter of, i. 108.

Hogarth (Georgina), ii. 120, iii. 540, 541, 561, 563; sketch taken from, ii. 48, iii. 287; Maclise's portrait of, ii. 48, 49.

Hogarth (Mary), death of, i. 120; epitaph on tomb of, i. 120 note (and see ii. 458); Dickens's loving memory of, i. 120, 144, 289, 405, ii. 147-150, 458, iii. 525.

Holiday Romance and George Silverman's Explanation, high price paid for, iii. 380 (and see 253 note, and 321).

Holland (Lady), a remembrance of, ii. 194.

Holland (Lord), ii. 190.

Holland (Captain), the Monthly Magazine conducted by, i. 104.

Holyhead, a Fenian at, iii. 316 note.

Hone of the Every Day Book, scene at funeral of, ii. 31-33 (but see iii. 568, 569).

Honesty under a cloud, ii. 112.

Hood (Thomas), ii. 190; his Tylney Hall, ii. 264.

Hop-pickers, iii. 208.

Horne (R. H.), ii. 475.

Hospital for Sick Children, Dickens's exertions on behalf of, iii. 192-200; a small patient at, iii. 194; Carol reading for, iii. 200.

Hotels American, i. 304, iii. 390, 395, 412, 435; extortion at, i. 331, 344.

Houghton (Lord), ii. 472, iii. 509, 538.

Household Words in contemplation, ii. 449-453; title selected for, ii. 454; names proposed for, ii. 453; first number of, ii. 454; early contributors to, ii. 454; Mrs. Gaskell's story in, iii. 54; unwise printed statement in, iii. 200; discontinued, iii. 239 (and see 37).

Hudson (George), glimpse of, in exile, iii. 274.

Hugo (Victor), an evening with, ii. 331, 332.

Hulkes (Mr.), iii. 206 note, 256.

Hull, reading at, iii. 232.

Humour, Americans destitute of i. 401; a favourite bit of, ii. 102; the leading quality of Dickens, iii. 341, 342; Lord Lytton on the employment of, by novelists, iii. 350 note; Dickens's enjoyment of his own, iii. 350-352; the true province of, iii. 382.

Hungerford-market, i. 50 (and see iii. 512 note).

Hunt (Holman), iii. 257.

Hunt (Leigh), saying of, i. 119; on Nicholas Nickleby, i. 169; Civil-list pension given to, ii. 369; theatrical benefit for, ii. 369-373; result of performances, ii. 373; last glimpse of, iii. 26 note; letter of Dickens to, in self-defence, iii. 28; the original of Harold Skimpole in Bleak House, iii. 26-29; inauguration of bust of, at Kensal-green, iii. 487.

Hunted Down, high price paid for, iii. 253; original of, iii. 279.

IMAGINATIVE life, tenure of, iii. 187.

Improprieties of speech, ii. 269.

Incurable Hospital, patients in the, iii. 287.

Inimitable, as applied to Dickens, origin of the term, i. 33.

Inn, a log-house, i. 400.

Innkeeper, a model, i. 365.

Inns, American, Miss Martineau on, i. 344 (and see 366 note, 393, 395, 400, iii. 432); Highland, i. 265, 267, 275; Italian, ii. 158, 170, 171, 181.

International boat-race dinner, Dickens at, iii. 527.

Ireland, a timely word on, ii. 260.

Irving (Washington), i. 287, 315, 330, 351, 352, 357 note; letter from Dickens to, i. 284; a bad public speaker, i. 320-322; at Literary Fund dinner in London, i. 321; at Richmond (U. S.), i. 351.

Italians hard at work, ii. 197.

Italy, art and pictures in, ii. 167-169, iii. 91, 92; private galleries in, ii. 168 note; cruelty to brutes in, ii. 187 note; wayside memorials in, ii. 188, 189 note; best season in, ii. 191; fire-flies in, ii. 195; Dickens's trip to, iii. 76-95; the noblest men of, in exile, iii. 93.

JACK STRAW'S-CASTLE (Hampstead-heath), i. 133, 299, 346, ii. 101, 117.

Jackson (Sir Richard), i. 413.

Jeffrey (Lord), i. 260; praise of Little Nell by, i. 251; presides at Edinburgh dinner to Dickens, i. 252; on the American Notes, ii. 38; praise by, of the Carol, ii. 88; on the Chimes, ii. 179; his opinion of the Battle of Life, ii. 303, 304; forecaste of Dombey by, ii. 358 note; on Paul's death, ii. 361 note; on the character of Edith in Dombey, ii. 362-364; James Sheridan Knowles and, ii. 392; touching letter from, ii. 428; death of, ii. 483.

Jerrold (Douglas), ii. 136, 162, 175, 200; at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 209, 210; fancy sketch of, ii. 282, iii. 63 note; last meeting with Dickens, iii. 167; death of, iii. 168; proposed memorial tribute to, and result, iii. 168.

Jesuits at Geneva, rising against the, ii. 297-301 (and see 179-180).

Johnson (President), interview of Dickens with, iii. 423; impeachment of, iii. 429.

Johnson (Reverdy), at Glasgow art-dinner, iii. 453 note.

Jonson (Ben), an experience of, ii. 352.

Jowett (Dr.), on Dickens, iii. 525, 526.

KARR (ALPHONSE), ii. 331.

Keeley (Mrs.), ii. 475; in Nicholas Nickleby, i. 175, ii. 96.

Kelly (Fanny), theatre of, in Dean-street, Soho, ii. 208-214; whims and fancies of, ii. 209.

Kemble (Charles) and his daughters, ii. 473.

Kemble (John), ii. 473.

Kensal-green, Mary Hogarth's tomb at, i. 120 note, ii. 458 note.

Kent (Charles), Charles Dickens as a Reader by, iii. 235 note; letter to, iii. 541.

Kissing the Rod (Edmund Yates'), iii. 495.

Knebworth, private performances at, ii. 396, 397; Dickens at, iii. 245, 246.

Knight (Charles), ii. 475.

Knowles (James Sheridan), bankruptcy of, ii. 392; civil-list pension granted to, ii. 393; performances in aid of, ii. 394, 395.

LADIES, American, i. 327; eccentric, ii. 291-293.

Laing (Mr.), of Hatton Garden, iii. 25.

Lamartine (A., de), ii. 331, iii. 135.

Lameness, strange remedy for, i. 22.

Lamert (James), private theatricals got up by, i. 31; takes young Dickens to the theatre, i. 32; employs Dickens at the blacking-warehouse, i. 51; quarrel of John Dickens with, i. 68 (and see 228).

Lamplighter, Dickens's farce of the, i. 183, ii. 207; turned into a tale for the benefit of Mrs. Macrone, i. 241.

Landor (Walter Savage), Dickens's visit to, at Bath, i. 200; mystification of, i. 218; villa at Fiesole, ii. 189, 190 (and see 486 note); the original of Boythorn in Bleak House, iii. 26; a fancy respecting, iii. 451; Forster's Life of, ii. 189 note, iii. 528.

Landport (Portsea), birth of Dickens at, i. 21.

Landseer (Charles), ii. 475.

Landseer (Edwin), i. 181, ii. 162, 470, 475, iii. 63 note, 126; and Napoleon III., iii. 147 note (and see iii. 238).

Land's-end, a sunset at, ii. 40.

Lankester (Dr.), ii. 430.

Lant-street, Borough, Dickens's lodgings in, i. 59; the landlord's family reproduced in the Garlands in Old Curiosity Shop, i. 60.

Lausanne, Dickens's home at, ii. 225, 226; booksellers' shops at, ii. 227; the town described, ii. 227; view of Rosemont, ii. 229; girl drowned in lake at, ii. 232, 233; theatre at, ii. 233, 234 note; fêtes at, ii. 246, 247, 258, 259; marriage at, ii. 248; revolution at, ii. 259; prison at, ii. 234, 235; Blind Institution at, ii. 236-240, iii. 78; English colony at, ii. 242 note; plague of flies at, ii. 244, 245 note; earthquake at, ii. 283 note; feminine smoking party, ii. 292; the town revisited, iii. 77, 78.

Lawes (Rev. T. B.), club established by, at Rothamsted, iii. 244.

Layard (A. H.), iii. 83; at Gadshill, iii. 510, 523.

Lazy Tour projected, iii. 170 (and see 351).

Lazzaroni, what they really are, ii. 187.

Leech (John) at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 210; grave mistake by, in Battle of Life illustration, ii. 310, 311; fancy sketch of, ii. 381; Dickens's opinion of his Rising Generation, ii. 414-418; what he will be remembered for, ii. 417; accident to, at Bonchurch, ii. 435; at Boulogne, iii. 105; death of, iii. 303 (and see 375).

Leeds, reading at, iii. 232.

Leeds Mechanics' Society, Dickens at meeting of the, ii. 390, 391.

Legends and Lyrics (Adelaide Procter's), iii. 495 note.

Legerdemain in perfection, iii. 112-114 (and see 111, 112 note).

Leghorn, Dickens at, iii. 80, 81.

Legislatures, local, i. 365.

Lehmann (Frederic), iii. 218, 256.

Leigh (Percival), ii. 210.

Lemaitre (Frédéric), acting of, iii. 122-124 (and see 521).

Lemon (Mark), ii. 210, 211, 263; fancy sketch of, ii. 382; acting with children, iii. 62; death of, iii. 538.

Lemon (Mrs.), ii. 263.

Leslie (Charles Robert), iii. 126.

Letter-opening at the General Post-Office, ii. 108, 109.

Levees in the United States, i. 313, 347, 365, 373, 386, 398; queer customers at, i. 373; what they are like, i. 398.

Lever (Charles), tale by, in All the Year Round, iii. 245.

Lewes (George Henry), Dickens's regard for, ii. 475; critical essay on Dickens, in the Fortnightly Review, noticed, iii. 333-339.

Library, a gigantic, ii. 272, 273.

Life of Christ, written by Dickens for his children, ii. 241 note.

Life-preservers, i. 376.

Lighthouse, Carlyle on Dickens's acting in the, iii. 72.

Lincoln (President), curious story respecting, iii. 422, 423 (and see 508).

Lincoln's-inn-fields, a reading of the Chimes in, ii. 162, 174, 175.

Linda, Dickens's dog, iii. 218, 219; burial-place of, iii. 222.

Liston (Robert), ii. 475.

Literary Fund dinner, i. 321 (and see iii. 488).

Literature, too much "patronage" of, in England, iii. 488.

Littérateur, a fellow, ii. 325.

Little Dorrit, fac-simile of plan prepared for first number of, iii. 158; sale of, iii. 159; general design of, iii. 159; weak points in, iii. 160, 161; Von Moltke and, iii. 164; original of Mrs. Clennam in, iii. 277; notions for, iii. 278.

Little Nell, Florence Dombey and, ii. 362; Sara Coleridge on, iii. 345 note.

Liverpool, readings at, iii. 225, 268, 311, 313; Dickens's speech at Mechanics' Institution at, ii. 94, 95; Leigh Hunt's benefit at, ii. 372, 373; public dinner to Dickens, iii. 454, 500, 501.

Loch-earn-head, postal service at, i. 269.

Locock (Dr.), ii. 468.

Lodi, Dickens at, ii. 166-173.

Logan Stone, Stanfield's sketch of, ii. 42.

London, pictures of, in Dickens's books, i. 171; readings in, iii. 223, 235, 258, 269.

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth), i. 304, 331, iii. 447; among London thieves and tramps, ii. 22 (and see 57); at Gadshill, iii. 216; on Dickens's death, iii. 384.

Longman (Thomas), ii. 469.

Louis Philippe, a glimpse of, ii. 320; dethronement of, ii. 403.

Lovelace (Lord), ii. 468.

Lowther, Mr. (chargé d'affaires at Naples), difficulty in finding house of, iii. 83-85.

Lytton (Lord), ii. 188 (and see iii. 246); prologue written by, for Ben Jonson's play, ii. 372, 373 note; Dickens's admiration for, ii. 472, 488; his opinion of Copperfield, iii. 21, 22; Strange Story contributed to All the Year Round, iii. 245; Dickens's reply to remonstrance from, iii. 341, 342; defence by, of humourists, iii. 350 note; suggestion as to close of Great Expectations, iii. 369; letter of Dickens to, from Cambridge (U. S.), iii. 402, 403.

Lytton (Robert), iii. 127.

MACKENZIE (Dr. SHELTON) and Cruikshank's illustrations to Oliver Twist, i. 155 note; rigmarole by, concerning Dickens and Her Majesty, iii. 503, 504 note.

Maclise (Daniel), i. 261, ii. 160, 175, 200; portrait of Dickens by, i. 178 note; social charm of, i. 180, 181; his apotheosis of Grip, i. 237; his play-scene in Hamlet, i. 355; among London tramps, ii. 23; sketches in Cornwall by, ii. 42, 43; letter from, on the Cornwall trip, 42, 43; his "Girl at the Waterfall," ii, 43; paints Mrs. Dickens's portrait, ii. 44; pencil drawing of Charles Dickens, his wife, and her sister, ii. 49; Dickens's address to, ii. 116-119; sketch of the private reading in Lincoln's-inn-fields, ii. 174; house in Devonshire-terrace sketched by, iii. 41; death of, iii. 535; tribute of Dickens to, iii. 536.

Macmillan's Magazine, paper in, on Dickens's amateur theatricals, iii. 63 note.

Macrae (David), Home and Abroad by, iii. 483 note.

Macready (William Charles), i. 261, 287, 288, ii. 160, 177; at Covent-garden, i. 140; dinner to, on his retirement from management, i. 185; dinner to, prior to American visit, ii. 53, 54; an apprehended disservice to, ii. 54; in New Orleans, ii. 103; in Paris, ii. 176, 177, iii. 126; strange news for, ii. 207; anecdote of, ii. 372, 373 note; Dickens's affection for, ii. 467; farewell dinner to, ii. 488; at Sherborne, iii. 185; his opinion of the Sikes and Nancy scenes, iii. 451; misgiving of Dickens respecting, iii. 481, 529.

Macready (Mrs.), death of, iii. 55.

Macrone (Mr.), copyright of Sketches by Boz sold to, i. 107; scheme to reissue Sketches, i. 122; exorbitant demand by, i. 124, ii. 442, 443 note; close of dealings with, i. 125; a friendly plea for, ii. 443 note.

Magnetic experiments, i. 375, 376.

Malleson (Mr.), iii. 256.

Malthus philosophy, ii. 262.

Managerial troubles, ii. 210, 370, 400-402.

Manby (Charles), pleasing trait of, iii. 273.

Manchester, Dickens's speech at opening of Athenæum, ii. 56 (and see iii. 237); Leigh Hunt's benefit at, ii. 372; Guild dinner at, ii. 401; readings at, iii. 231, 268, 307, 311, 314.

Manchester (Bishop of) on Dickens's writings, iii. 383, 384 note.

Manin (Daniel), iii. 126.

Mannings, execution of the, ii. 479.

Manon Lescaut, Auber's opera of, iii. 136.

Mansion-house dinner to "literature and art," ii. 477; doubtful compliment at, ii. 478; suppressed letter of Dickens respecting, ii. 478.

Marcet (Mrs.), ii. 231, 252.

Margate theatre, burlesque of classic tragedy at, ii. 26 (and see ii. 387).

Mario (Signor), ii. 176.

Marryat (Captain) on the effect in America of the Nickleby dedication, ii. 54; fondness of, for children, ii. 472 (and see ii. 268, iii. 567).

Marshalsea prison, Dickens's first and last visits to the, i. 44, 45, iii. 162; an incident in, described by Dickens, i. 64-66 (and see iii. 163).

Marston's (Mr. Westland) Patrician's Daughter, prologue to, ii. 45.

Martineau (Harriet) on American inns, i. 344, 366 note.

Martin Chuzzlewit, agreement for, i. 282 (and see ii. 24, 65); original of Eden in, i. 362, 370; fancy for opening of, ii. 24 (and see i. 282, 283); first year of, ii. 40-62; names first given to, ii. 44; Sydney Smith's opinion of first number of, ii. 45; origin of, ii. 45; original of Mrs. Gamp in, ii. 51; sale of, less than former books, ii. 63, 64 (and see 447); unlucky clause in agreement for, ii. 65; Dickens's own opinion of, ii. 69, 70; the story characterized, ii. 74-84; Thackeray's favourite scene in, ii. 79; intended motto for, ii. 81; M. Taine on, ii. 78; christening dinner, ii. 109; Sara Coleridge on, iii. 345 note.

Master Humphrey's Clock, projected, i. 193-199; first sale of, i. 202; first number published, i. 222; original plan abandoned, i. 223; dinner in celebration of, i. 240; Clock discontents, i. 281.

Mazzini (Joseph), Dickens's interest in his school, ii. 474.

Mediterranean, sunset on the, ii. 117.

Mémoires du Diable, a pretty tag to, iii. 133, 134.

Memoranda, extracts from Dickens's book of, iii. 275-297; available names in, iii. 293-296.

Mendicity Society, the, ii. 106.

Mesmerism, Dickens's interest in, i. 279, 280, 375, ii. 436.

Micawber (Mr.), in David Copperfield, original of, iii. 30-32; comparison between Harold Skimpole and, iii. 32; Mr. G. H. Lewes on, iii. 338, 348; on corn, iii. 349.

Middle Temple, Dickens entered at, i. 183, 186.

Midsummer Night's Dream at the Opera Comique, Boulogne, iii. 103.

Milnes (Monckton), ii. 472.

Mirror of Parliament, Dickens reporting for, i. 97.

Mississippi, the, i. 386.

Mitton (Thomas), i. 182, ii. 476.

Moltke (Von) and Little Dorrit, iii. 164.

Money (Lord Lytton's), a performance of, at Doncaster, iii. 175 note.

Mont Blanc, effect of, on Dickens, ii. 254.

Montreal, private theatricals in, i. 414, 417; facsimile of play-bill at, i. 415.

Moore (George), business qualities and benevolence, iii. 248.

Moore (Thomas), i. 251, 321.

Morgue at Paris, ii. 321; a tenant of the, ii. 327.

Morning Chronicle, Dickens a reporter for the, i. 97; liberality of proprietors, i. 98; change of editorship of, ii. 53, 104; articles by Dickens in the, ii. 104, 105.

Morris (Mowbray), ii. 468.

Moulineaux, Villa des, iii. 97-105, 115-119.

Mountain travelling, ii. 253.

Mr. Nightingale's Diary, the Guild farce of, ii. 397, iii. 72.

Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings, iii. 370.

Mugby Junction, germ of, in Memoranda, iii. 290.

Mule-travelling in Switzerland, ii. 253.

Mulgrave (Lord), i. 297, 300, 305, 413, ii. 469.

Mumbo Jumbo, ii. 440.

Murray (Lord), i. 260, ii. 475.

Music, effect of, on a deaf, dumb, and blind girl, ii. 239; vagrant, ii. 387, 438.

NAMES, available, iii. 295, 296.

Naples, burial place at, ii. 186 note; filth of, ii. 186 (and see iii. 95); Dickens at, iii. 83-85.

Napoleon III. at Gore-house, ii. 334 note; at Boulogne, iii. 108; at Paris, iii. 108 note; Edwin Landseer and, iii. 147 note.

Nautical incident at Genoa, ii. 195.

Neaves (Mr.), i. 258.

Negri (Marquis di), ii. 130-132.

New Bedford (U.S.), reading at, iii. 437.

Newcastle, readings at, iii. 264, 315; alarming scene at, iii. 265.

Newhaven (U. S.), levee at, i. 313.

New Sentimental Journey (Collins's), iii. 257.

Newspaper express, a, i. 101.

Newspapers, American, iii. 400.

Newsvendors' dinner, Dickens at, iii. 535.

New-year's day in Paris, iii. 145.

New York, fac-similes of invitations to Dickens, i. 308, 309; the Carlton hotel in, i. 315 (and see iii. 361); ball at, i. 316-318; life in, i. 324; hotel bills in, i. 331 (and see 345); public institutions ill-managed at, i. 339; prisons in, i. 339-344; capital punishment in, i. 342; sale of tickets for the readings, iii. 391, 392-394; first reading in, iii. 393; fire at the Westminster-hotel, iii. 395, 399; prodigious increase since Dickens's former visit, iii. 395; Niblo's theatre at, iii. 396; sleigh-driving at, iii. 397; police of, iii. 398 (and see i. 339); the Irish element in, iii. 413; farewell readings in, iii. 441; public dinner to Dickens at, iii. 442.

New York Herald, i. 320, iii. 400.

New York Ledger, high price paid for tale by Dickens in, iii. 253.

New York Tribune, Dickens's "violated letter" in the, iii. 201, 231.

Niagara Falls, effect of, on Dickens, i. 404, 405 (and see iii. 433).

Nicholas Nickleby, agreement for, i. 145; first number of, i. 150, 165; sale of, i. 150; the Saturday Review on, i. 166; characters in, i. 167-171; opinions of Sydney Smith and Leigh Hunt on, i. 168, 169; Dickens at work on, i. 172-176; dinner-celebration of, i. 177, 178; originals of the Brothers Cheeryble in, i. 181; proclamation on the eve of publication, ii. 99, 100 note; effect of, in establishing Dickens, iii. 344 (and see 386).

Nicolson (Sir Frederick), ii. 194.

Nightingales at Gadshill, iii. 212.

Nobody's Fault, the title first chosen for Little Dorrit, iii. 155.

No-Popery riots, description of the, i. 246.

Normanby (Lord), ii. 108, 109, 320.

Norton (Charles Eliot), iii. 215, 447.

Norwich, reading at, iii. 262.

No Thoroughfare, i. 140.

Novels, real people in, iii. 22-33; episodes in, iii. 161.

Novelists, old, design for cheap edition of, ii. 385.

Nugent (Lord), ii. 473.

"OCEAN SPECTRE," the, ii. 369 note.

O'Connell (Daniel), ii. 135.

Odéon (Paris), Dickens at the, iii. 128, 129.

Ohio, on the, i. 377.

Old Curiosity Shop, original of the Marchioness in, i. 59; originals of the Garland family, i. 60; original of the poet in Jarley's wax-work, i. 70; the story commenced, i. 200; disadvantages of weekly publication, i. 203; changes in proofs, i. 206; Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness, i. 207; effect of story upon the writer, i. 208; death of Little Nell, i. 210; close of the tale, i. 210; success of, i. 211; characterized, i. 212-214; a tribute by Bret Harte, i. 215, 216; characters in, iii. 345.

Old Monthly Magazine, Dickens's first published piece in, i. 97; other sketches in, i. 104.

Oliver Twist, commenced in Bentley's Miscellany, i. 121; characters in, real to Dickens, i. 125, 139; the story characterized, i. 146, 147, 158, 160; Dickens at work on, i. 149; the last chapter of, i. 153; the Cruikshank illustrations to, 154-157; reputation of, i. 156; reply to attacks against, i. 160-162; teaching of, i. 161; "adapted" for the stage, i. 174, 175; noticed in the Quarterly Review, i. 184; copyright of, repurchased, i. 224; original of Mr. Fang, iii. 25; character-drawing in, iii. 343; proposed reading from, iii. 448; facsimile of portion of MS. of, iii. 469.

Opium-den, an, iii. 528 (and see 464 note).

Osnaburgh-terrace, Dickens in, ii. 106.

Our Mutual Friend, title chosen for, iii. 271; hints for, in Memoranda, iii. 280, 281; first notion for, iii. 371; original of Mr. Venus in, iii. 374; Marcus Stone chosen as illustrator, iii. 373; the story reviewed, iii. 377-379.

Ouvry (Frederic), iii. 434, 539; clause inserted by, in agreement for Edwin Drood, iii. 461 note; humorous letter of Dickens to, iii. 522.

Overs (John), Dickens's interest in, ii. 109; death of, ii. 109 note.

Over-work, remains of, ii. 297.

Owen (Prof.), ii. 477.

PAINTINGS, Dickens on, ii. 167-169.

Paradise Lost at the Ambigu, Paris, iii. 130, 131.

Paris, Dickens's first day in, ii. 316; Sunday in, ii. 317; Dickens's house in, described, ii. 317-319; unhealthy political symptoms at, ii. 321, 334; the Morgue at, ii. 321; incident in streets of, ii. 321; hard frost at, ii. 324; Dickens's alarming neighbour, ii. 325; begging-letter writers in, ii. 327; sight-seeing at, ii. 330; theatres at, ii. 331; Bibliothèque Royale, ii. 333; the Praslin tragedy in, ii. 386; Dickens's life in, iii. 121-153; Dickens's house in, iii. 124; personal attentions to Dickens, iii. 124; theatres of, iii. 126-134; illumination of, iii. 144; New-year's day in, iii. 144, 145; results of imperial improvement in, iii. 145 note; Art Exposition at, iii. 146-148; a Duchess murdered in, iii. 150, 151.

Parliament, old Houses of, inconvenience of the, i. 100.

Parr (Harriet), iii. 494 note.

Parry (John), ii. 475.

Pawnbrokers, Dickens's early experience of, i. 46.

Peel (Sir Robert) and his party, i. 277; Lord Ashley and, i. 283; the Whigs and, ii. 261.

Pen Photographs (Miss Field's) iii. 235 note.

Perth, reading at, iii. 234.

Peschiere, Palazzo (Genoa), rooms in the, hired by Dickens, ii. 129; a fellow-tenant in, ii. 129; described, ii. 139-142; view of the, ii. 141; revisited, iii. 79; dinner-party at, ii. 172; owner of the, iii. 79.

Petersham, athletic sports at, i. 183.

Phelps (Mr.), ii. 475.

Philadelphia, Dickens at, i. 335-344; penitentiary at, i. 345-347; letters from, iii. 413-415 (and see ii. 38, 39).

Pickwick Papers, materials for, i. 66; first number of, i. 108; origin of, i. 110; Seymour's illustrations to, i. 111 note; Thackeray's offer to illustrate, i. 115, 116; the debtor's prison in, i. 128, 129; popularity of, i. 129 (and see iii. 385, 386); reality of characters in, i. 130, 131; inferior to later books, i. 131; Mr. Pickwick an undying character, i. 131 (and see 112); piracies of, i. 137; completion of, i. 143; payments for, i. 145; a holy brother of St. Bernard and, ii. 276; characters in, iii. 343; where it was begun, iii. 528.

Pictures from Italy, original of the courier in, ii. 171-173; publication commenced in the Daily News, ii. 219.

Pic Nic Papers published, i. 241.

"Piljians Projiss," a new, ii. 376-384.

Pig-market at Boulogne, iii. 104.

Pipchin (Mrs.) in Dombey, original of, i. 55, ii. 355, 356; various names proposed for, ii. 355 note.

Pirates, literary, ii. 97; proceedings in Chancery against, ii. 97-99; warning to, ii. 100 note.

Pisa, a jaunt to, iii, 81.

Pittsburg (U. S.), description of, i. 373; solitary prison at, i. 378.

Poets, small, iii. 489.

Pollock (Chief Baron) on the death of Dickens, iii. 247 note.

Poole (John), aid rendered to, by Dickens, ii. 370; civil-list pension granted to, ii. 393.

Poor, Dickens's sympathy with the, i. 167, 168 (and see 250), ii. 146, 147, 240.

Popularity, distresses of, i. 324.

Porte St. Martin (Paris), Dickens at the, iii. 129.

Portland (U. S.) burnt and rebuilt, iii. 438.

Portrait painter, story of a, iii. 523.

Portsea, birth of Dickens at, i. 21.

Prairie, an American, i. 393, 394; pronunciations of the word, i. 396.

Praslin tragedy in Paris, ii. 386.

Prayer, Dickens on personal, iii. 485.

Preston, a strike at, iii. 69, 70; Hamlet at, iii. 70.

Primrose (Mr.), i. 258.

Printers' Pension fund dinner, presided over by Dickens, ii. 55.

Prisons, London, visits to, i. 280; American, i. 339-344, 345-347, 378; comparison of systems pursued in, ii. 234.

Procter (Bryan Waller), iii. 27, 28; Dickens's affection for, ii. 467.

Procter (Adelaide), Dickens's appreciation of poems by, iii. 495.

Publishers, hasty compacts with, i. 121; Dickens's agreements with, ii. 88, iii. 56 (and see 240-243).

Publishers, authors and, ii. 64, 72, iii. 489, 490.

Puddings, a choice of, i. 55, 56.

"Punch people," Lord Brougham and the, ii. 469; at Mansion-house dinner, ii. 477.

Q, Dickens's secretary in the United States, i. 303, 315, 322, 328, 344, 348, 366, 370, 374, 375, 393, 397, 400, 411; described, i. 410-412 (and see iii. 389 note).

Quarterly Review, prophecy in not fulfilled, i. 139 note; notice of Oliver Twist in, i. 184; on Cruikshank and Leech, ii. 418.

Queen (Her Majesty the) and Auber, iii. 134, 135; alleged offers to Dickens, iii. 503, and 503, 504 note; desire of, to see Dickens act, iii. 506; Thackeray's copy of the Carol purchased by, iii. 506, 507 note; Dickens's interview with, iii. 507, 508; grief at Dickens's death, iii. 542.

RACHEL (Madame), caprice of, iii. 137.

Ragged schools, Dickens's interest in, ii. 57; results of, ii. 57 note (and see ii. 494); proposed paper on, by Dickens, declined by Edinburgh Review, ii. 58.

Railroads, American, ladies' cars on, i. 338.

Railway travelling, effect on Dickens, iii. 450; in America, i. 336-338, 368, iii. 398, 405, 435, 436.

Ramsay (Dean) on Bleak House and Jo, iii. 47, 48.

Ramsgate, entertainments at, ii. 214 note.

Raven, death of Dickens's first, i. 235-239; of second, ii. 215.

Raymond (George), ii. 476.

Reade (Charles), Hard Cash contributed by, to All the Year Round, iii. 245.

Readings, gratuitous, iii. 61 note; private, in Scheffer's atelier, iii. 148; in Lincoln's-inn-fields, ii. 162, 174, 175. public, Dickens's first thoughts of, ii. 174, 284, iii. 60; argument against paid, iii. 61, 189; idea of, revived, iii. 189; opinions as to, asked and given, iii. 189, 190 note; disadvantages of, iii. 191; proposal from Mr. Beale respecting, iii. 196; first rough notes as to, iii. 198, 199 note; various managers employed by Dickens, iii. 223; hard work involved by, iii. 224, 445; study given to, iii. 318. first series of, iii. 223-238; sale of books of, iii. 232 note; subjects of, iii. 235. second series of, iii. 255-274; what it comprised, iii. 259; new subjects for, iii. 260. third series of, iii. 298-324; Messrs. Chappell's connection with, iii. 306-310. American, iii. 388-443; result of, iii. 415, 441.

Readings given by Dickens: Australian, contemplated, iii. 270 note (but see 272); Bulwer's opinion of, iii. 271 note. last series of, iii. 444-460 (and see 437 note).

Readings (alphabetical list of): Aberdeen, iii. 234. Albany (U. S.), iii. 435; receipts at, iii. 441. Baltimore (U. S.), iii. 418, 419, 427; receipts at, iii. 441. Belfast, iii. 229. Berwick-on-Tweed, iii. 266. Birmingham, iii. 311. Boston (U. S.), iii. 391, 403, 440; receipts at, iii. 441. Brighton, iii. 263. Brooklyn (New York), iii. 416; receipts at, iii. 442. Buffalo (U. S.), iii. 431; receipts at, iii. 441. Cambridge, iii. 317. Canterbury, iii. 264. Chester, iii. 268, 313. Dover, iii. 264. Dublin, iii. 220-228, 317. Dundee, iii. 233. Edinburgh, iii. 233, 267, 451, and 450 note. Exeter, iii. 224, 268. Glasgow, iii. 234. Harrogate, iii. 230. Hartford (U. S.), iii. 441. Liverpool, iii. 225, 268, 311, 313, 314. London, iii. 223, 234, 258, 269. Manchester, iii. 232, 268, 308, 311, 314. New Bedford (U. S.), iii. 437; receipts at, iii. 441. Newcastle, iii. 265, 315. Newhaven (U. S.), iii. 428; receipts at, iii. 441. New York, iii. 393, 410, 441; receipts at, iii. 441. Norwich, iii. 262. Paris, iii. 272. Perth, iii. 234. Philadelphia (U. S.), iii. 414, 418, 427; receipts at, iii. 441. Portland (U. S.), iii. 438; receipts at, iii. 441. Providence (U. S.), iii. 428; receipts at, iii. 441. Rochester (U. S.), iii. 431; receipts at, iii. 441. Springfield (U. S.), iii. 441. Syracuse (U. S.), iii. 431; receipts at, iii. 441. Torquay, iii. 268, 451. Washington (U. S.), iii. 421, 425, 426; receipts at, iii. 441. Worcester (U. S.), iii. 441. York, iii. 231, 454.

Reeves (Sims), ii, 475.

Reformers, administrative, iii. 70, 71 note.

Regiments in the streets of Paris, iii. 143 note.

Regnier (M.) of the Français, ii. 330, 429, iii. 127, 137.

Rehearsals, troubles at, ii. 371.

Religion, what is the true, ii. 149.

Reporters' gallery, Dickens enters the, i. 96; ceases connection with, i. 116.

Reporter's life, Dickens's own experience of a, i. 99-101 (and see ii. 265).

Revolution at Geneva, ii. 298-301; traces left by, ii. 300; abettors of, ii. 301.

Rhine, Dickens on the, ii. 222, 223; travelling Englishmen on the, ii. 223.

Richard Doubledick, story of, iii. 154.

Richardson (Sir John), iii. 519.

Richardson's show, a religious, iii. 273.

Richmond (U. S.), levees at, i. 354.

Rifle-shooting, Lord Vernon's passion for, ii. 270; at Lausanne, ii. 247, 298, 299.

Rising Generation (Leech's), Dickens on, ii. 414-418.

Ristori (Mad.) in Medea, iii. 137.

Roberts (David), iii. 85.

Robertson (Peter), i. 259, ii. 135, 475; sketch of, i. 253, 254.

Robertson (T. W.), iii. 530, 531.

Robinson Crusoe, Dickens's opinion of, iii. 135 note (and see i. 264 note).

Roche (Louis), employed by Dickens as his courier in Italy, ii. 106; resources of, ii. 172, 196, 199 (and see 111, 325); Count d'Orsay and, ii. 204 note; illness of, ii. 421; death of, ii. 255 note.

Rochester, early impressions of, i. 28 (and see iii. 213); Watts's Charity at, iii. 154 note.

Rochester Castle, adventure at, ii. 22.

Rochester Cathedral, brass tablet in, to Dickens's memory, iii. 154 note.

Rochester (U. S.), alarming incident at, iii. 431.

Rockingham-castle, Dickens's visit to, ii. 481-483; private theatricals at, ii. 481, iii. 83.

Rocky Mountain Sneezer, a, iii. 409.

Rogers (Samuel), i. 251, ii. 190; sudden illness of, ii. 466 (and see 486 note).

Rome, Dickens's first impressions of, ii. 185; Dickens at, iii. 85-89; a "scattering" party at Opera at, iii. 86, 87; marionetti at, iii. 87, 88; malaria at, iii. 88, 89.

Rosemont (Lausanne), taken by Dickens, ii. 225; view of, ii. 229; Dickens's neighbours at, ii. 231, 242 note, 252; Dombey begun at, ii. 241; the landlord of, ii. 246 note.

Rothamsted, Rev. Mr. Lawes's club at, iii. 244.

Royal Academy dinner, Dickens's last public words spoken at, iii. 537.

Roylance (Mrs.), the original of Mrs. Pipchin in Dombey, i. 55, ii. 355.

Ruskin (Mr.) on Hard Times, iii. 66, 67.

Russell (Lord J.), a friend of letters, ii. 369, 393; on Dickens's letters, iii. 481; dinner with, ii. 483; Dickens's tribute to, iii. 501, and note.

Ryland (Arthur), letter of Dickens to, iii. 56 note.

SALA (G. A.), Dickens's opinion of, ii. 454 note; tribute by, to Dickens's memory, iii. 516.

Salisbury Plain, superiority of, to an American prairie, i. 394; a ride over, ii. 461.

Sand (Georges), iii. 138, 139.

Sandusky (U. S.), discomforts of inn at, i. 400.

Sardinians, Dickens's liking for, iii. 92.

Satirist, editor of, hissed from the Covent-garden stage, ii. 50.

Saturday Review on the realities of Dickens's characters, i. 166.

Scene-painting, iii. 166.

Scheffer (Ary), portrait of Dickens by, iii. 148, 149; reading of Cricket on the Hearth in atelier of, iii. 149.

Scheffer (Henri), iii. 150.

Schools, public, Dickens on, iii. 236.

Scotland, readings in, iii. 232-235.

Scott (Sir W.), real people in novels of, iii. 22, 29.

Scott monument at Edinburgh, ii. 392.

Scribe (M.), dinner to, ii. 469; social intercourse of Dickens with, iii. 134, 135; author-anxieties of, iii. 136; a fine actor lost in, iii. 138.

Scribe (Madame), iii. 136.

Sea-bathing and authorship, ii. 28.

Seaside holidays, Dickens's, ii. 403-441, iii. 97-120.

Sebastopol, reception in France of supposed fall of, iii. 110.

Serenades at Hartford and Newhaven (U. S.), i. 314.

Servants, Swiss, excellence of, ii. 246.

Seven Dials, ballad literature of, i. 230.

Seymour (Mr.) and the Pickwick Papers, i. 111 note; death of, i. 115.

Shaftesbury (Lord) and ragged schools, i. 283, ii. 57, 58 note, 493, 494 (and see 494).

Shakespeare Society, the, i. 185.

Shakespeare on the actor's calling, iii. 191.

Shakespeare's house, purchase of, ii. 392.

Sheffield, reading at, iii. 232.

Sheil (Richard Lalor), ii. 53.

Shepherd's-bush, the home for fallen women at, ii. 488.

Sheridans (the), ii. 468.

Ship news, i. 296.

Short-hand, difficulties of, i. 91.

Shows, Saturday-night, i. 61.

Siddons (Mrs.), genius of, ii. 473, 474.

Sierra Nevada, strange encounter on the, iii. 385, 386.

Sikes and Nancy reading, proposed, iii. 448; at Clifton, iii. 451; Macready on the, iii. 451; at York, iii. 454, and note; Dickens's pulse after, iii. 532.

Simplon, passing the, ii. 174.

"Six," Bachelor, iii. 124.

Sketches by Boz, first collected and published, i. 113; characterized, i. 114.

Slavery in America, i. 327, 352-354, 388-390; the ghost of, iii. 419.

Slaves, runaway, i. 389.

Sleeplessness, Dickens's remedy for, iii. 249.

Sleighs in New York, iii. 397.

"Slopping round," iii. 432.

"Smallness of the world," i. 372, ii. 222, iii. 204.

Small-pox, American story concerning, iii. 305 note.

Smith (Albert), Battle of Life dramatized by, ii. 323.

Smith (Arthur), iii. 168; first series of Dickens's readings under management of, iii. 199, 200 (and see 263 note); distresses of, iii. 225 note; first portion of second series planned by, iii. 258; serious illness of, iii. 260, 261; death of, iii. 261; touching incident at funeral, iii. 261 note.

Smith (Bobus), ii. 190.

Smith (O.), acting of, i. 174, ii. 96.

Smith (Porter), ii. 476.

Smith (Southwood), ii. 53, 108.

Smith (Sydney), i. 311, ii. 108; on Nicholas Nickleby, i. 168, 176 note; death of, ii. 190.

Smithson (Mr.), i. 182; death of, ii. 93.

Smoking party, a feminine, ii. 292, 293.

Smollett (Tobias), a recollection of, i. 128; real people in novels of, iii. 22.

Snuff-shop readings, ii. 336.

Solitary confinement, effects of, i. 345, 346, ii. 234, 235.

Somebody's Luggage, the Waiter in, iii. 351, 370.

Sortes Shandyanæ, ii. 242.

Sparks (Jared), i. 304.

Speculators, American, iii. 391, 393, 408, 409, 411, 428.

Spiritual tyranny, ii. 231 note.

Spittoons in America, i. 338.

Squib Annual, the, i. 109, 110.

St. Bernard, Great, proposed trip to, ii. 271; ascent of the mountain, ii. 274; the convent, ii. 274; scene at the top, ii. 274, 275; bodies found in the snow, ii. 275; the convent a tavern in all but sign, ii. 276; Dickens's fancy of writing a book about the, iii. 184.

St. George (Madame), ii. 176.

St. Giles's, Dickens's early attraction of repulsion to, i. 39; original of Mr. Venus found in, iii. 374.

St. Gothard, dangers of the, ii. 198, 199.

St. James's Hall, Dickens's final readings at, iii. 532, 533.

St. Leger, Dickens's prophecy at the, iii. 175.

St. Louis (U. S.), levee at, i. 386; slavery at, i. 388; pretty scene at, i. 390, 392; duelling in, i. 396.

Stage-coach, queer American, i. 363, 364.

Stage, training for the, ii. 213, 214, (and see iii. 191).

Stanfield (Clarkson), i. 181, ii. 47 note, 160, 162, 175, iii. 521; sketches in Cornwall by, ii. 42; illustrations by, to Battle of Life, ii. 310; price realized at the Dickens sale for the Lighthouse scenes, iii. 71 note (and see ii. 296, iii. 164, 243); at work, iii. 166; death of, iii. 320.

Stanfield Hall, Dickens at, ii. 462

Stanley (Dr. A. P.), Dean of Westminster, compliance with general wish, iii. 543; letter and sermon iii. 544.

Stanton (Secretary), curious story told by, iii. 422, 423 (and see 508).

Staplehurst accident, iii. 304; effect on Dickens, iii. 376.

Staples (J. V.), letter from Dickens to, ii. 90 note.

Statesmen, leading American, i. 349, 350.

State Trials, story from the, iii. 283, 284.

Stealing, Carlyle's argument against, i. 333.

Steamers, perils of, i. 293, 305, 326, 331 (and see iii. 80-83).

Stevenage, visit to the hermit near, iii. 246.

Stirling (Mr.), a theatrical adapter, i. 174.

Stone (Frank), ii. 385. iii. 105; sketch of Sydney Dickens by, ii. 368, 369 note; fancy sketch of, ii. 383; death of, iii. 256 note.

Stone (Marcus), designs supplied by, to Our Mutual Friend, iii. 373 note.

Streets, Dickens's craving for crowded, ii. 144, 151, 277, 281, 282, 283, 287, iii. 515.

Strange Gentleman, a farce written by Dickens, i. 116.

Stuart (Lord Dudley), ii. 472.

Sue (Eugène), ii. 331.

Sumner (Charles), i. 305, iii. 421, 426.

Sunday, a French, ii. 317, 485 note.

Swinburne (Algernon), ii. 428.

Switzerland; splendid scenery of, ii. 198; villages in, ii. 199; Dickens resolves to write new book in, ii. 220; early impressions of, ii. 226, 227; climate of, ii. 244 note; the people of, ii. 245, 246, 259; mule-travelling in, ii. 253; Protestant and Catholic cantons in, ii. 260; Dickens's last days in, ii. 311-315; pleasures of autumn in, ii. 313; revisited, iii. 76-95.

Syme (Mr.), opinion of, as to Dickens's lameness, iii. 453, 454.

Syracuse (U. S.), reading at, iii. 431.

TAGART (EDWARD), ii. 59, 470.

Taine (M.), on Martin Chuzzlewit, ii. 78; criticisms by, on Dickens, ii. 102 (and see 251 note, iii. 326-331); a hint for, ii. 419; on Hard Times, iii. 67 note; Fielding criticized by, iii. 348.

Tale of Two Cities, titles suggested for, iii. 279; first germ of Carton in, iii. 280 (and see 360); origin of, iii. 354; the story reviewed, iii. 354-360; titles suggested for, iii. 354, 355.

Talfourd (Judge), i. 180, ii. 97, 98, 293, 294, 427, 470 (and see iii. 509); Dickens's affection for, ii. 427.

Tatler (Hunt's), sayings from, iii. 26 note.

Tauchnitz (Baron), letter from, iii. 57 note; intercourse of, with Dickens, iii. 462 note (and see 125 note).

Tavistock-house, sketch of, iii. 54; a scene outside, iii. 165; Stanfield scenes at, iii. 243; sale of, iii. 257; startling message from servant at, iii. 276.

Taylor (Tom), ii. 472.

Taylor (the Ladies), ii. 271.

Telbin (William), at work, iii. 166.

Temperance agitation, Dickens on the, ii. 409, 410.

Temperature, sudden changes of, in America, i. 347.

Temple (Hon. Mr.), ii. 190.

Tennent (Sir Emerson), ii. 476, iii. 80; death and funeral of, iii. 454.

Tennyson (Alfred), Dickens's allegiance to, ii. 25, 136, 472, iii. 357 note.

Ternan (Ellen Lawless), iii. 561.

Tête Noire Pass, ii. 255; accident in, ii. 256, 257.

Thackeray (W. M.), ii. 188; offers to illustrate Pickwick, i. 115, 116; on Maclise's portrait of Dickens, i. 178 note; on the Carol, ii. 89 (and see ii. 53, 470); dinner to, iii. 73; at Boulogne, iii. 105 note; in Paris, iii. 126; tribute to, by Dickens, iii. 236; death of, iii. 298-300; estrangement between Dickens and, iii. 298 note.

Thanet races, Dickens at the, ii. 24.

Théâtre Français (Paris), conventionalities of the, iii. 128.

Theatres, Italian, ii. 182; French, ii. 330, 331.

Theatrical Fund dinner, Dickens's speech at, ii. 491, 492 (and see 221, iii. 537).

Theatricals, private, at Montreal, i. 413-415; at Rockingham, ii. 481; at Tavistock House, iii. 62-64 (and see ii. 108).

Thomas (Owen P.), recollections of Dickens at school, i. 76-81.

Thompson (Mr. T. I.), ii. 476.

Thompson (Sir Henry), consulted by Dickens, iii. 321; a reading of Dickens's stopped by, iii. 452; opinion as to Dickens's lameness, iii. 453, 454.

Ticknor (George), i. 304, 308.

Ticknor & Fields (Messrs.), commission received by, on the American readings, iii. 446.

Timber Doodle (Dickens's dog), ii. 24, 25, 28, ii. 134 note; death of, iii. 144 note.

Times, the, on Dickens's death, iii. 542, 543 note.

Tintoretto, Dickens on the works of, ii. 168, iii. 92.

Titian's Assumption, effect of, on Dickens, ii. 168.

Tobin (Daniel), a schoolfellow of Dickens, i. 76; assists Dickens as amanuensis, but finally discarded, i. 81.

Toole (J. L.), encouragement given to in early life, by Dickens, iii. 54 (and see iii. 302 note).

Topping (Groom), i. 220, 221, 234, 235, 413.

Toronto, toryism of, i. 412.

Torquay, readings at, iii. 268, 451.

Torrens (Mrs.), ii. 476.

Tour in Italy (Simond's), ii. 116 note.

Townshend (Chauncy Hare), iii. 256; death and bequest of, iii. 417.

Tracey (Lieut.), i. 280, ii. 23.

Tramps, ways of, iii. 210 note, 249, 250.

Tremont House (Boston, U. S.), Dickens at, i. 300.

Trossachs, Dickens in the, i. 264.

True Sun, Dickens reporting for the, i. 96.

Turin, Dickens at, iii. 92, 93.

Turner (J. M. W.), ii. 110.

Tuscany, wayside memorials in, ii. 188 note.

Twickenham, cottage at, occupied by Dickens, i. 180-182; visitors at, i. 180-182; childish enjoyments at, i. 182 note.

Twiss (Horace), ii. 468.

Tyler (President), i. 350.

Tynemouth, scene at, iii. 315, 316.

Uncommercial Traveller, Dickens's, iii. 247-253.

Uncommercial Traveller Upside Down, contemplated, iii. 270.

Undercliff (Isle of Wight), Dickens's first impressions of, ii. 426; depressing effect of climate of, ii. 431-433.

Unitarianism adopted by Dickens for a short time, ii. 59.

Upholsterer, visit to an, i. 189; visit from an, i. 190.

Up the Rhine (Hood's), Dickens on, i. 185.

Utica (U. S.), hotel at, iii. 435.

VAUXHALL, the Duke and party at, ii. 470.

Venice, Dickens's impressions of, ii. 163-166, iii. 90; habits of gondoliers at, iii. 90; theatre at, iii. 91.

Verdeil (M.), ii. 233.

Vernet (Horace), iii. 147 note.

Vernon (Lord), eccentricities of, ii. 270, 271, 298.

Vesuvius, Mount, iii. 83.

Viardot (Madame) in Orphée, iii. 138 note.

Village Coquettes, the story and songs for, written by Dickens, i. 116.

Vote, value of a, in America, iii. 420.

WALES, Prince of, and Dickens, iii. 509.

Wainewright (the murderer), recognized by Macready in Newgate, i. 184 (and see ii. 334 note); made the subject of a tale in the New York Ledger, iii. 253; portrait of a girl by, ii. 334 note (and see ii. 468, iii. 279).

Wales, North, tour in, i. 184.

Ward (Professor) on Dickens, iii. 352, 353 note.

Washington (U. S.), hotel extortion at, i. 345; climate of, i. 347; Congress and Senate at, i. 349; a comical dog at reading at, iii. 425; readings at, iii. 424, 425.

Wassail-bowl presented to Dickens at Edinburgh, iii. 197.

Waterloo, Battle of, at Vauxhall, ii. 470.

Watson, Mr. (of Rockingham), ii. 231, 264, 479; death of, iii. 55.

Watson (Sir Thomas), note by, of Dickens's illness in April, 1869, iii. 457-459; readings stopped by, iii. 458; guarded sanction given to additional readings, iii. 458 (and see 466, 531 note); Dickens's letter to, iii. 459 note.

Watts's Charity at Rochester, iii. 154 note.

Webster (Daniel), Dickens on, i. 308.

Webster (Mr.), ii. 475.

Webster murder at Cambridge (U. S.), iii. 402, 403.

Well-boring at Gadshill, iii. 209.

Weller (Sam) a pre-eminent achievement in literature, i. 131.

Wellington, Duke of, fine trait of, ii. 264.

Wellington House Academy (Hampstead-road), Dickens a day-scholar at, i. 74-84; described in Household Words, i. 75; Dickens's schoolfellows at, i. 76-84; Beverley painting scenes at, i. 84; revisited after five-and-twenty years, i. 76.

Weyer (M. Van de), ii. 477.

Whig jealousies, i. 250 (and see ii. 261).

Whitechapel workhouse, incident at, iii. 75.

White-conduit-house, reminiscence of, ii. 132.

Whitefriars, a small revolution in, ii. 302.

White (Rev. James), character of, ii. 424-426 (and see ii. 426, iii. 126).

White (Grant) on the character of Carton in the Tale of Two Cities, iii. 359, 360.

Whitehead (Charles), i. 109.

Whitworth (Mr.), ii. 475.

Wieland the clown, death of, iii. 166 note.

Wig experiences, ii. 380.

Wilkie (Sir David), on the genius of Dickens, i. 178; death of, i. 252.

Willis (N. P.), fanciful description of Dickens by, i. 107 note.

Wills (W. H.), ii. 453, iii. 256, 493.

Wilson (Professor), i. 259; sketch of, i. 253, 254; speeches of, i. 255 note, ii. 136.

Wilson (Mr.) the hair-dresser, fancy sketch of, ii. 379-383.

Wilton (Marie) as Pippo in the Maid and Magpie, iii. 236, 237 note.

Women, home for fallen, ii. 488 (and see iii. 286).

Wordsworth, memorable saying of, iii. 381.

Worms, the city of, ii. 223.

YARMOUTH first seen by Dickens, ii. 462.

Yates (Edmund), tales by, in All the Year Round, iii. 245; Dickens's interest in, iii. 495.

Yates (Mr.), acting of, i. 174, ii. 96.

Yesterdays with Authors (Fields'), ii. 42 note.

York, readings at, iii. 231, 454.

Yorkshire, materials gathered in, for Nickleby, i. 172.

Young Gentlemen and Young Couples, sketches written by Dickens for Chapman & Hall, i. 149 note.

ZOOLOGICAL Gardens, feeding the serpents at, iii. 169 note.

Zouaves, Dickens's opinion of the, iii. 143, 144.

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