I have always striven in my writings to express veneration for the life and lessons of our Saviour; because I feel it; and because I re-wrote that history for my children—every one of whom knew it from having it repeated to them—long before they could read, and almost as soon as they could speak.

But I have never made proclamation of this from the house tops

Faithfully Yours, Charles Dickens

John M. Markham Esq.]

All through this spring in London, Charles Dickens had been ailing in health, and it was remarked by many friends that he had a weary look, and was "aged" and altered. But he was generally in good spirits, and his family had no uneasiness about him, relying upon the country quiet and comparative rest at Gad's Hill to have their usual influence in restoring his health and strength. On the 2nd June he attended a private play at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Freake, where his two daughters were among the actresses. The next day he went back to Gad's Hill. His daughter Kate (whose home was there at all times when she chose, and almost always through the summer months) went down on Sunday, the 5th June, for a day's visit, to see the "great improvement of the conservatory." Her father laughingly assured her she had now seen "the last" improvement at Gad's Hill. At this time he was tolerably well, but she remarked to her sister and aunt how strangely he was tired, and what a curious grey colour he had in his face after a very short walk on that Sunday afternoon. However, he seemed quite himself again in the evening. The next day his daughter Kate went back, accompanied by her sister, who was to pay her a short visit, to London.

Charles Dickens was very hard at work on the sixth number of "Edwin Drood." On the Monday and Tuesday he was well, but he was unequal to much exercise. His last walk was one of his greatest favourites—through Cobham Park and Wood—on the afternoon of Tuesday.

On the morning of Wednesday, the 8th (one of the loveliest days of a lovely summer), he was very well; in excellent spirits about his book, of which he said he must finish his number that day—the next (Thursday) being the day of his weekly visit to "All the Year Round" office. Therefore, he would write all day in the Chalet, and take no walk or drive until the evening. In the middle of the day he came to the house for an hour's rest, and smoked a cigar in the conservatory—out of which new addition to the house he was taking the greatest personal enjoyment—and seemed perfectly well, and exceedingly cheerful and hopeful. When he came again to the house, about an hour before the time fixed for the early dinner, he seemed very tired, silent, and absorbed. But this was so usual with him after a day of engrossing work, that it caused no alarm or surprise to his sister-in-law—the only member of his household who happened to be at home. He wrote some letters—among them, these last letters which we give—in the library of the house, and also arranged many trifling business matters, with a view to his departure for London the next morning. He was to be accompanied, on his return at the end of the week, by Mr. Fildes, to introduce the "new illustrator" to the neighbourhood in which many of the scenes of this last book of Charles Dickens, as of his first, were laid.

It was not until they were seated at the dinner-table that a striking change in the colour and expression of his face startled his sister-in-law, and on her asking him if he was ill, he said, "Yes, very ill; I have been very ill for the last hour." But on her expressing an intention of sending instantly for a doctor, he stopped her, and said: "No, he would go on with dinner, and go afterwards to London." And then he made an effort to struggle against the fit that was fast coming on him, and talked, but incoherently, and soon very indistinctly. It being now evident that he was ill, and very seriously ill, his sister-in-law begged him to come to his own room before she sent off for medical help. "Come and lie down," she entreated. "Yes, on the ground," he said, very distinctly—these were the last words he spoke—and he slid from her arm, and fell upon the floor.

The servants brought a couch into the dining-room, where he was laid. A messenger was despatched for Mr. Steele, the Rochester doctor, and with a telegram to his doctor in London, and to his daughters. This was a few minutes after six o'clock.

His daughters arrived, with Mr. Frank Beard, this same evening. His eldest son the next morning, and his son Henry and his sister Letitia in the evening of the 9th—too late, alas!

All through the night, Charles Dickens never opened his eyes, or showed a sign of consciousness. In the afternoon of the 9th, Dr. Russell Reynolds arrived at Gad's Hill, having been summoned by Mr. Frank Beard to meet himself and Mr. Steele. But he could only confirm their hopeless verdict, and made his opinion known with much kind sympathy, to the family, before returning to London.

Charles Dickens remained in the same unconscious state until the evening of this day, when, at ten minutes past six, the watchers saw a shudder pass over him, heard him give a deep sigh, saw one tear roll down his cheek, and he was gone from them. And as they saw the dark shadow steal across his calm, beautiful face, not one among them—could they have been given such a power—would have recalled his sweet spirit back to earth.

As his family were aware that Charles Dickens had a wish to be buried near Gad's Hill, arrangements were made for his burial in the pretty churchyard of Shorne, a neighbouring village, of which he was very fond. But this intention was abandoned in consequence of a pressing request from the Dean and Chapter of Rochester Cathedral that his remains might be placed there. A grave was prepared and everything arranged, when it was made known to the family, through Dean Stanley, that there was a general and very earnest desire that Charles Dickens should find his resting-place in Westminster Abbey. To such a fitting tribute to his memory they could make no possible objection, although it was with great regret that they relinquished the idea of laying him in a place so closely identified with his life and his works. His name, notwithstanding, is associated with Rochester, a tablet to his memory having been placed by his executors on the wall of Rochester Cathedral.

With regard to Westminster Abbey, his family only stipulated that the funeral might be made as private as possible, and that the words of his will, "I emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," should be religiously adhered to. And so they were. The solemn service in the vast cathedral being as private as the most thoughtful consideration could make it.

The family of Charles Dickens were deeply grateful to all in authority who so carried out his wishes. And more especially to Dean Stanley and to the (late) Lady Augusta Stanley, for the tender sympathy shown by them to the mourners on this day, and also on Sunday, the 19th, when the Dean preached his beautiful funeral sermon.

As during his life Charles Dickens's fondness for air, light, and gay colours amounted almost to a passion, so when he lay dead in the home he had so dearly loved, these things were not forgotten.

The pretty room opening into the conservatory (from which he had never been removed since his seizure) was kept bright with the most beautiful of all kinds of flowers, and flooded with the summer sun:

"And nothing stirred in the room. The old, old fashion. The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion—death!

"Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, of immortality!"

FOOTNOTES:

[37] This letter has lately been presented by Mr. Charles Kent to the British Museum.



INDEX.

A'Beckett, Gilbert, i. 134

Actors, Dickens a friend to poor, ii. 134

Affidavit, a facetious, i. 101

Agassiz, Professor, ii. 226, 309

Agate, John, ii. 136; letter to, ii. 154

Ainsworth, W. H., letters to, i. 43, 75, 92

Alison, Sir Archibald, i. 170

"All the Year Round," commencement of, ii. 83; "The Uncommercial Traveller" in, ii. 107; Christmas Numbers of: "The Haunted House," ii. 84; "A Message from the Sea," ii. 108, 137; "Tom Tiddler's Ground," ii. 136; "Somebody's Luggage," ii. 171; "Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings," ii. 187; "Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy," ii. 209, 210; "Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions," ii. 224, 239, 246; "Mugby Junction," ii. 244, 265; "No Thoroughfare," ii. 268, 300, 327, 332, 334, 338, 350, 356, 361, 362, 384; and see ii. 386, and see Charles Dickens as an Editor

America, feeling for Dickens in the backwoods of, i. 40, 41; Dickens's first visit to, i. 53; his welcome in, i. 59; his opinion of, i. 60-64; freedom of opinion in, i. 61; Dickens's levees in, i. 66; change of temperature in, i. 66; hotel charges in, i. 67; midnight rambles in New York, i. 67; descriptions of Niagara, i. 69, 70; ii. 372, 377; a maid's views on Niagara, i. 72; copyright in, i. 71, 73, 74; Dickens's tribute to Mrs. Trollope's book on, i. 81; press-ridden, i. 97; absence of quiet in, i. 98; criticisms of Dickens in, i. 151; the great war in, ii. 142, 143; feeling between England and, ii. 240; Dickens's second visit to—the journey, ii. 302-306; Dickens's letters on, ii. 306-382; fires in, ii. 317, 320; treatment of luggage in, ii. 321; drinks in, ii. 329, 363; literary piracy in, ii. 332; walking-match between Dolby and Osgood in, ii. 346, 352, 353, 360, 361, 364, 366, 377; changes and improvements in since Dickens's first visit, ii. 348, 374; the negroes in, ii. 349; personal descriptions of Dickens in, ii. 369; travelling in, ii. 375; and see Readings

"American Notes," publication of, i. 54

Andersen, Hans Christian, ii. 3

"Animal Magnetism," tag to, written by Dickens, i. 238

Anne, Mrs. Dickens's maid, i. 72, 414; ii. 18, 25, 28, 343

"Apprentices, The Tour of the Two Idle," ii. 5, 32, 33

"Arabian Nights," a mistake in the, i. 88, 89

Armatage, Isaac, ii. 391

Armstrong, the Misses, letter to, ii. 175; and see ii. 176

Astley's Theatre, description of a clown at, i. 116

Austin, Henry, i. 240; ii. 135, 157; and see Letters

Austin, Mrs. Henry, ii. 447; letters to, ii. 154, 180, 384

Author, the highest reward of an, i. 41

Autobiography, a concise, of Dickens, i. 437

Autograph of Dickens in 1833, i. 2; Dickens leaves his in Shakespeare's room, i. 13; of Boz, i. 43; of Dickens as Bobadil, i. 195; facsimile of Dickens's handwriting in 1856, i. 421; facsimile letters of Dickens written the day before his death, ii. 443-445

Babbage, Charles, letters to, i. 86, 87, 186

Ballantyne, ii. 415

Bancroft, Mrs., letter to, ii. 441

Banks, G., i. 273; letter to, i. 296

Barber, Dickens's gardener, ii. 102

Barker, Dr. Fordyce, ii. 378, 405

"Barnaby Rudge" written and published, i. 36; Dickens's descriptions of the illustrations of: the raven, i. 38; the locksmith's house, i. 39; rioters in The Maypole, i. 45; scene in the ruins of the Warren, i. 46; abduction of Dolly Varden, i. 48; Lord George Gordon in the Tower, the duel, frontispiece, i. 50; Hugh taken to gaol, i. 51

"Battle of Life, The," dedication of, i. 147, 157; Dickens superintends rehearsals of the play of, i. 163, 165, 167; sale of, i. 166, 176; reception of the play of, i. 167

Baylis, Mr., ii. 170; letter to, ii. 179

Beadle, a, in office, ii. 134

Beard, Frank, ii. 182, 405, 421, 434, 447

Beaucourt, M., i. 297, 357, 439

Bedstead, a German, i. 128

Beecher, Ward, ii. 341

Begging letters, Dickens's answers to, i. 148-150

Belgians, the King of the, ii. 432

Benzon, Miss Lily, letter to, ii. 258

Berry, one of Dickens's readings men, ii. 54, 159, 160

Bicknell, Henry, i. 215; letter to, i. 229

Biographers, Dickens on, i. 190; his opinion of John Forster as a biographer, i. 188-191

Birthday wishes, i. 51

"Black-eyed Susan," Dickens as T. P. Cooke in, i. 113; a new version of, i. 114

Blackwood, Mr., ii. 165

Blair, General, ii. 355

Blanchard, Laman, letter to, i. 99

"Bleak House," commenced, i. 241; publication of, i. 272; Dickens's opinion of, i. 279; circulation of, i. 289, 309, 317

Blessington, Lady, i. 171

Bobadil, Captain, Dickens plays, i. 134; Dickens's remarks on, i. 144; a letter after, i. 195

Book-backs, Dickens's imitation, i. 265, 266

Book Clubs, established, i. 94; Dickens on, i. 104

Boucicault, Dion, ii. 260, 261

Boulogne, Dickens at, i. 271, 297, 304-312, 341, 414, 439-448; a Shakespearian performance at, i. 308; en fete, i. 315; illuminations at, on the occasion of the Prince Consort's visit, i. 362; fire at, i. 364; condition of, during the Crimean war, i. 365; letters descriptive of, i. 305, 306, 309, 312, 357, 358, 360, 372

Bouncer, Mrs., Miss Dickens's dog, ii. 109, 126, 189, 356

Bow Street Runners, ii. 178

Boxall, Sir William, i. 233, 237

Boyle, Captain Cavendish, ii. 407

Boyle, Miss Mary, i. 211, 214, 227, 414; ii. 123, 145, 315, 406; and see Letters

Breach of Promise, a new sort of, i. 179

Breakfast, a Yorkshire, i. 9

Broadstairs, Dickens at, i. 4, 6, 17, 28, 36, 53, 134, 170, 185, 213, 240; ii. 84, 99; description of lodgings at, i. 33; amusements of, i. 180, 182; size of Fort House at, i. 254

Bromley, Sir Richard, ii. 126

Brookfield, Mrs., letter to, ii. 249

Brookfield, The Rev. W., letters to, ii. 199, 200

Brooks, Shirley, ii. 407; letters to, ii. 423, 438

Brougham, Lord, i. 182; ii. 144

Browne, H. K., i. 6, 13

Buckstone, J. B., i. 360

Burnett, Mrs., i. 185

Cabin, a, on board ship, i. 56

Campbell, Lord, ii, 144

Capital punishment, Dickens's views on, i. 209

Carlisle, the Earl of, letters to, i. 253, 281; ii. 12, 118, 157

Carlyle, Thomas, ii. 112

Cartwright, Samuel, ii. 326; letter to, ii. 348

Castlereagh, Lord, i. 245

Cat-hunting, i. 449

Cattermole, George, i. 42, 143; ii. 327, 383; and see Letters

Cattermole, Mrs., letters to, ii. 383, 385

Celeste, Madame, ii. 106

Cerjat, M. de, i. 147; ii. 406; and see Letters

Chambers, Robert, ii. 167, 434

Chancery, Dickens on the Court of, i. 450

Chapman and Hall, Messrs., i. 3; letter to, i. 55

Chappell, Messrs., ii. 244, 245, 267, 309, 326, 405

Charities, Dickens's sufferings from public, ii. 47

Children, stories of, i. 223, 365, 420; ii. 196, 359, 423

Childs, Mr., ii. 337, 405

"Chimes, The," written, i. 95; an attack on cant, i. 118, 129; Dickens's opinion of, i. 129, 133; Dickens gives a private reading of, i. 133

Chorley, H. F., ii. 338, 350

"Christmas Carol, The," publication of, i. 85; criticisms on, i. 99

Christmas greetings, i. 167

Church, Dickens on the, ii. 221; service on board ship, ii. 348; Dickens on the Romish, ii. 409, 410

Circumlocution, Dickens on, ii. 241, 270

Clarke, John, letter to, ii. 418

Cockspur Street Society, the, i. 85-87

Cold, effects of a, i. 92, 93; remedy for a, i. 168

Colden, David, i. 64

Collins, C. A., ii. 84, 100, 113, 221, 242, 387, 410

Collins, Wilkie, i. 241, 272, 297, 332, 359, 376, 385, 388, 413, 414, 447; ii. 33, 84, 108, 170, 268, 292; and see Letters

Comedy, Mr. Webster's offer for a prize, Dickens an imaginary competitor, i. 86, 90

Compton, Mrs., letter to, ii. 22

Conjuring feats, i. 96; and see ii. 243

Cooke, T. P., i. 113; ii. 4; letter to, ii. 21

Copyright, i. 13; Dickens's struggles to secure English, in America, i. 71, 73, 74

Costello, Dudley, i. 241; letters to, i. 104, 205

Cottage, a cheap, i. 18

Coutts, Miss, i. 410

Covent Garden Theatre, Macready retires from management of, i. 18; ruins of, i. 430; a scene at, ii. 133

"Cricket on the Hearth, The," i. 135, 145

Croker, J. Crofton, i. 272; letter to, i. 275

Cruikshank, George, i. 170

Cunningham, Mrs., ii. 423

Cunningham, Peter, i. 186, 407; letters to, i. 195, 270, 312, 356

Dacres, Sir Sydney, ii. 329

Daily News, The, started, i. 135

Dallas, Mrs., letters to, ii. 195, 434

Dallas, Mr., ii. 235

"David Copperfield," dedication of, i. 147; purpose of Little Emily in, i. 211; success of, i. 211; reading of, i. 377, 382; Dickens's favourite work, i. 382; and see i. 204, 221, 227, 279

Deane, F. H., letter to, i. 68

Delane, John, i. 298; ii. 425; letter to, i. 314

De la Rue, Mr., ii. 210

Devonshire, the Duke of, letters to, i. 437, 443, 457

Devrient, Emil, i. 277

Dickens, Charles, at Furnival's Inn, i. 1; his marriage, i. 1; employed as a parliamentary reporter, i. 1; spends his honeymoon at Chalk, Kent, i. 1; employed on The Morning Chronicle, i. 2; removes to Doughty Street, i. 4; writes for the stage, i. 4, 5, 7, 16, 17; his visit to the Yorkshire schools, i. 6; at Twickenham Park, i. 6; his visits to Broadstairs, see Broadstairs; his visit to Stratford-on-Avon and Kenilworth, i. 6, 12; in Shakespeare's room, i. 13; elected at the Athenaeum Club, i. 12; removes to Devonshire Terrace, i. 17; portraits of, see Portraits; visits to Scotland, i. 36, ii. 39, and see ii. 395; personal feeling of for his characters, i. 36, 37, 42; declines to enter Parliament, i. 37, 44; ii. 389; public dinners to, i. 36, 53, 273; ii. 268, 301, 404, 406, 417, 419, 420; an enemy of cant, i. 88, 118, 129; visits of to America, see America; expedition of to Cornwall, i. 54; his travels in Italy, see Italy; political opinions of, i. 62, 63, 88, 104; fancy signatures to letters of, i. 91, 146, 152, 181, 206, 237, 425; ii. 195; takes the chair at the opening of the Liverpool Mechanics' Institute, i. 94, and see i. 100-102; his theatrical performances, see Theatrical Performances; effects of work on, i. 121,; ii. 248, 266, 325; The Daily News, started by, i. 135; his visits to Lausanne and Switzerland, i. 147, 297, and see Switzerland; his visits to Paris, see Paris; as a stage, manager, i. 163, 167, 231, 232, 237; ii. 26; at Chester Place, Regent's Park, i. 169; takes the chair at the opening of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute, and of the Glasgow Athenaeum, i. 170; at Brighton, i. 185, 213; at Bonchurch, i, 204; purchases Tavistock House, i. 240, and see Tavistock House; as an editor, i. 246, 259, 269, 270, 285; ii. 127, 217, 262, 286, 292; his readings, see Readings; illnesses of, i. 14, 297; ii. 404, 405, 421, 446; in America, ii. 338, 341, 347, 353, 355, 360, 365, 373, 377, 380, 381; his visits to Boulogne, see Boulogne; presentation of plate to, at Birmingham, i. 348; purchases Gad's Hill, i. 377, 414, and see Gad's Hill; delivers a speech on Administrative Reform, i. 377; at Folkestone, i. 377, 378; restlessness of, when at work, i. 402, 425; tour of, in the North, ii. 5, 29-32; his kindly criticisms of young writers, ii. 16, 34, 267, 277, for other criticisms see i. 152, 188; ii. 14, 43, 215, 249; elected a member of the Birmingham Institute, ii. 34; religious views of, ii. 82, 202, 221, 394, 403, 444; visit of, to Cornwall, ii. 108; at Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, ii. 135; visits Lord Lytton at Knebworth, ii. 136; at Hyde Park Gate South, ii. 170; at 57, Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, ii. 208; at Somer's Place, Hyde Park, ii. 224; in the Staplehurst accident, ii. 224; at Southwick Place, Hyde Park, ii. 224; his energy, ii. 291; one of the secrets of the success of, ii. 357, 392; the Midland Institute at Birmingham opened by, ii. 406, and see ii. 427; his last speech, at the Royal Academy dinner, ii. 432; his interview with the Queen, ii. 432; attends a levee of the Prince of Wales, ii. 432; his last illness, ii. 446; his death, ii. 448; funeral of, ii. 448, 449; and see Letters of

Dickens, Mrs. Charles, marriage of, i. 1; visit of, to America, i. 53; at Rome, i. 135; accident to, i. 215; at Malvern, i. 239; present to, at Birmingham, i. 298; and see Letters

Dickens, Charles, jun., birth of, i. 4; nickname of, i. 76; at Eton, i. 212, 240, 243, 255, 258; at Leipsic, i. 297, 310, 319; at Barings', i. 455; marriage of, ii. 208; on "All the Year Round," ii. 406, 410, 424; and see i. 169, 233, 237, 243, 255, 258, 290, 347, 378, 405, 426; ii. 88, 114, 123, 140, 145, 176, 447; letters to, ii. 310, 338

Dickens, Kate, nickname of, i. 76; marriage of, ii. 107, 113; illness of, ii. 266, 271; and see ii. 39, 75, 77, 84, 221, 410, 436, 446; letters to, i. 178; ii. 99

Dickens, Mamie, nickname of, i. 76; illnesses of, i. 363, 436; accident to, ii. 129; and see ii. 39, 49, 55, 75, 77, 84, 87, 114, 116, 120, 145, 179, 234, 411, 447, and Letters

Dickens, Walter, nickname of, i. 76; goes to India, ii. 19, 21; attached to the 42nd Highlanders, ii. 114, 176; death of, ii. 208, 212; and see i. 268, 314, 378, 443; ii. 4

Dickens, Frank, nickname of, i. 126; letter of, to Dickens, ii. 93; in India, ii. 208, 212; and see ii. 114, 131, 140, 177

Dickens, Alfred, at Wimbledon School, ii. 122; settles in Australia, ii. 327; and see ii. 177, 371

Dickens, Sydney, birth of, i. 169; nickname of, i. 170; death of, i. 171; story of, i. 223; a naval cadet, ii. 125, 126, 145, 167; on board H.M.S. Orlando, ii. 169; and see i. 363; ii. 114, 118, 122, 177, 202, 236, 260, 296, 430

Dickens, Henry, entered at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, ii. 327; wins a scholarship, ii. 424, 430; and see i. 363; ii. 177, 190, 254, 255, 329, 371, 389, 395, 406, 410, 447; letters to, ii. 356, 392, 435, 438

Dickens, Edward, nicknames of, i. 322, 338; goes to Australia, ii. 327, 329; Dickens's love for, ii. 389-391; and see i. 353, 359, 365, 403, 420, 426, 439; ii. 53, 76, 79, 92, 95, 153, 190, 199; letter to, ii. 402

Dickens, Dora, birth of, i. 213; death of, i. 240

Dickens, Alfred, sen., i. 184, 410; ii. 199

Dickens, Mrs. Augustus, ii. 418

Dickens, Fanny, see Mrs. Burnett

Dickens, Frederick, i. 9

Dickens, John, i. 240, 437; ii. 240

Dickens, Mrs. John, ii. 333

Dickens, Letitia, see Mrs. Henry Austin

Dickenson, Captain, ii. 224, 232

Dickson, David, letter to, i. 89

Diezman, S. A., letter to, i. 32

Dilke, C. W., ii. 5; letter to, ii. 12

Dillon, C., ii. 42

Dinner, a search for a, i. 326; ladies at public dinners, i. 103

Dogs, Dickens's, i. 67, 109, 110; ii. 50, 96, 101; ii. 203, 237, 242, 245, 264, 269; a plague of, i. 292; stories of, i. 109, 352, 354, 455

Dolby, George, ii. 245, 252-255, 267, 273, 280, 295, 296, 308, 310, 311, 317-323, 328, 330, 335, 336, 340, 345-347, 352-360, 363, 367, 381

"Dombey and Son," i. 147; success of, i. 156, 176; sale of, i. 162

D'Orsay, Comte, i. 171, 244

Driver, Dickens's estimate of himself as a, i. 2

Drury Lane Theatre, the saloon at, i. 37; suggestions for the saloon at, i. 52, 53

Dufferin, Lord, ii. 419

Dwarf, the Tartar, ii. 255

Earthquake, an, in England, ii. 206

Edinburgh on a Sunday, ii. 395

Education, Dickens an advocate of, for the people, i. 104

"Edwin Drood," ii. 407, 431, 432, 446

Eeles, Mr., letters to, i. 265, 269

Egg, Augustus, i. 170, 172, 226, 297, 320, 332; ii. 198

Eliot, Sir John, Dickens on Forster's life of, ii. 215

Elliotson, Dr., i. 37, 149, ii. 99

Elton, Mr., i. 85, 92

Elwin, Rev. W., ii. 136, 151

Ely, Miss, letter to, i. 153

Emerson, Mr., ii. 306

Emery, Mr., i. 429

England, state of, in 1855, i. 391; politically, i. 406

Epitaph, Dickens's, on a little child, i. 68

Executions, Dickens on public, i. 209, 212

Exhibition, an infant school at the, i. 257

Eytinge, Mr., ii. 405

Fairy Tales, Dickens on, i. 307

"Faust," Gounod's, ii. 191, 193

Fechter, Charles, ii. 171, 177, 187, 193, 201, 219, 270, 386; and see Letters

Felton, Mr., ii. 85

Ferguson, Sir William, ii. 246, 247

Feval, Paul, ii. 183, 192

Fielding, Henry, i. 394

Fields, Cyrus W., ii. 85, 308, 344, 361, 364, 379, 405

Fields, Mrs., ii. 306, 308, 319, 344, 361, 364, 367, 379, 405

Fildes, S. L., ii. 432, 447; letter to, ii. 435

Finlay, F. D., ii. 406; letters to, ii. 297, 389, 408

Fitzgerald, Mrs., ii. 285

Fitzgerald, Percy, ii. 187, 397; and see Letters

Flunkeydom, scholastic, ii. 68

Forgues, M., i. 415, 421

Forster, Miss, ii. 327

Forster, John, i. 7, 10, 134, 143, 225, 240, 268, 428; ii. 108, 130, 265; and see Letters

Franklin, Sir John, i. 373

Freake, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 446

French portraits of the English, i. 175

Friday, Dickens's lucky day, i. 414, 429

Frith, W. P., ii. 84, 93, 385, 418; letters to, i. 79; ii. 439

Frost, the great, of 1861, ii. 139

Funerals, Dickens on state, i. 290; ii. 385

Gad's Hill, purchase of, i. 377, 378, 414; Dickens takes possession of, ii. 3; his childish impressions of, ii. 8; improvements in, ii. 107, 373, 406, 446; sports at, ii. 205; cricket club at, ii. 356; letters concerning, i. 384, 410, 429; ii. 15, 18, 25, 28, 49, 106, 119, 227

Gaskell, Mrs., i. 214; and see Letters

Germany, esteem felt for Dickens in, i. 32

Ghost, stalking a, ii. 131

Gibson, M., i. 315; ii. 121

Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Milner, ii. 431

Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., ii. 401

Goldsmith, Oliver, Dickens on Forster's Life of, i. 188; on the works of, i. 380

Gordon, Andrew, ii. 131

Gordon, Mr. Sheriff, ii. 164

"Great Expectations," commenced, ii. 108, 136; letters concerning, ii. 128, 133, 140, 142, 143, 151

Grief, the perversity of, exemplified, i. 18

Grimaldi, Life of, edited by Dickens, i. 4

Guild of Literature and Art, i. 239; theatrical performances in aid of the, i. 239, 241, 248, 252, 268, 271; and see ii. 41

Haldimand, Mr., i. 147, 169, 212, 380; letters to, i. 157, 254

Halleck, Fitz-Greene, i. 59

"Hard Times," i. 341; satire of, explained, i. 349; letters concerning, i. 355, 371

Harley, J. P., letters to, i. 5, 23

Harness, Rev. W., ii. 253; letters to, i. 37, 76, 361

"Haunted Man, The," i. 170, 185, 241; subjects for illustrations in, described, i. 200, 201; dramatisation of, i. 203

Headland, Mr., ii. 135, 149, 158, 160

Helps, Sir Arthur, ii. 432

Henderson, Mrs., letter to, ii. 293

Hewett, Captain, i. 57

"History of England, The Child's," i. 297

Hogarth, Mary, i. 4, 9

Hogarth, Georgina, i. 425; ii. 50, 114, 145, 179, 202, 408, 436; and see Letters

Hogge, Mrs., letter to, ii. 46

Holland, Lady, i. 11

Holmes, Mr., ii. 306

Home, longings for, i. 64, 70

Hood, Tom, i. 287; letter to, i. 80

Horne, Mrs., letter to, i. 456

Horne, R. H., letter to, i. 93

Hospital, a dinner at a, i. 88; Great Ormond Street, ii. 40, 46

Houghton, Lord, ii. 432; letter to, i. 41

"Household Words," i. 148; scheme of, i. 216; suggested titles for, i. 219; success of, i. 221; Christmas numbers of, i. 241, 288; "The Golden Mary," i. 414; ii. 11, "A House to Let," ii. 40; incorporated with "All the Year Round," ii. 83; letters concerning, i. 219, 221, 250, 285, 286, 291-293, 295, 299, 301, 334, 335, 353, 423, 452; ii. 68

Hughes, Master Hastings, letter to, i. 14

Hulkes, Mrs., ii. 224, 315, 329; letter to, ii. 232

Hullah, John, i. 5; ii. 131

Humphery, Mr. and Mrs., afterwards Sir W. and Lady, ii. 187

Hunt, Leigh, ii. 407

Hutchinson, John, ii. 380

Illustrated London News, offers to Dickens from, i. 150

Illustrations of Dickens's works, his descriptions for, i. 38-40, 45, 46, 50, 51, 200-203; ii. 237

Impeachment of the Five Members, Dickens on Forster's, ii. 14

Ireland, a dialogue in, ii. 61; feeling for Dickens in, ii. 65; Fenianism in, ii. 282-286; proposed banquet to Dickens in, ii. 406; Dickens on the Established Church in, ii. 409; and see ii. 57, 60, 64

Italy, Dickens's first visit to, i. 94; the sky of, i. 106; the colouring of, i. 106; a sunset in, i. 106; twilight in, i. 107; frescoes in, i. 107; churches in, i. 108; fruit in, i. 109; climate of, i. 111; a coastguard in, i. 116; Dickens at Albaro, i. 105-117; at Genoa, i. 120-122, 134, 321; at Venice and Verona, i. 119-121, 337; at Naples, i. 134-141, 322; an ascent of Vesuvius, i. 137-141; at Rome, i. 134, 135, 325-333; Dickens on the unity of, ii. 84, 89, 90, 140, 211; and see i. 297, 346

Jamaica, the insurrection in, ii. 241

Jeffrey, Lord, i. 184, 218

Jerrold, Douglas, i. 134, 225, 268, 390; ii. 3, 4, 19; and see Letters

Jews, Dickens's friendly feeling for, ii. 204, 223, 280

Joachim, Joseph, ii. 413

John, Dickens's manservant, ii. 54, 56, 57, 72, 153, 187, 188, 255

Joll, Miss, letter to, i. 209

Jones, Walter, letter to, ii. 232

Keeley, Mrs., ii. 417

Keeley, Robert, i. 165; letter to, i. 105

Kelly, Miss, i. 302, 303

Kelly, one of Dickens's readings men, ii. 305, 306, 342

Kemble, Fanny, ii. 344, 346

Kent, W. Charles, i. 186; ii. 225, 268, 407; and see Letters

Kinkel, Dr., i. 230

Knight, Charles, i. 94; ii. 208; and see Letters

Knowles, Sheridan, i. 214; letter to, i. 215

"Lady of Lyons, The," ii. 298

La Font, ii. 440

Lamartine, i. 187

Landor, Walter Savage, i. 268, 337; ii. 66; and see Letters

Landseer, Edwin, letter to, i. 103

Landseer, Tom, i. 27

Lansdowne, Lord, i. 275

Law, Dickens's opinion of English, ii. 440

Layard, A. H., i. 377; ii. 108; letters to, i. 390, 391

Leclercq, Miss, ii. 246

Lectures, Dickens on public, i. 97

Leech, John, i. 134, 186, 225, 226, 239

Le Gros, Mr., i. 140, 332

Lehmann, Mrs., ii. 39, 75; and see Letters

Lehmann, F., ii. 39, 75

Lemaitre, M., i. 386

Lemon, Mark, i. 134, 186, 225, 226, 376, 390; and see Letters

Lemon, Mrs., i. 419

Leotard, ii. 142

LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS TO: Agate, John, ii. 154 Ainsworth, W. H., i. 43, 75, 92 Anonymous, i. 277; ii. 276 Armstrong, the Misses, ii. 175 Austin, Henry, i. 2, 69-73, 76, 262-264, 266, 361; ii. 18, 25, 28 Austin, Mrs., ii. 154, 180, 384 Babbage, Charles, i. 86, 87, 186 Bancroft, Mrs., ii. 441 Banks, G., i. 296 Baylis, Mr., ii. 179 Benzon, Miss, ii. 258 Bicknell, H., i. 229 Blanchard, Laman, i. 99 Boyle, Miss, i. 224, 225, 227, 245, 265, 279, 345, 381, 423; ii. 10, 132, 157, 169, 186, 245, 315, 411 Brookfield, Mrs., ii. 249 Brookfield, Rev. W., ii. 199, 200 Brooks, Shirley, ii. 423, 438 Carlisle, the Earl of, i. 253, 281; ii. 12, 118, 157 Cartwright, Samuel, ii. 348 Cattermole, Mrs., ii. 383, 385 Cattermole, George, i. 22, 28-30, 31, 33-36, 38, 39, 42, 43, 45-48, 50, 51, 81, 143 Cerjat, M. de, i. 161, 210, 346, 378; ii. 7, 48, 86, 113, 138, 176, 200, 220, 240, 268, 387, 409 Chapman and Hall, i. 55 Clarke, John, ii. 418 Collins, Wilkie, i. 294, 358, 362, 397, 400, 403, 419, 437, 448; ii. 40, 67, 101, 110, 129, 146, 182, 198, 209, 332, 397 Compton, Mrs., ii. 22 Cooke, T. P., ii. 21 Costello, Dudley, i. 104, 205 Croker, J. Crofton, i. 275 Cunningham, Peter, i. 195, 270, 312, 356 Dallas, Mrs., ii. 195, 434 Deane, F. H., i. 68 Delane, John, i. 314 Devonshire, the Duke of, i. 437, 443, 457 Dickens, Mrs. Charles, i. 12, 100, 123, 127, 130, 132, 165, 166, 206, 223, 244, 249, 267, 330, 406, 433 Dickens, Charles, ii. 310, 338 Dickens, Edward, ii. 402 Dickens, Henry, ii. 356, 392, 435, 438 Dickens, Miss Kate, i. 178; ii. 99 Dickens, Miss, i. 176, 178, 182, 199, 205, 453; ii. 52, 53, 56, 63, 72, 78, 95, 99, 124, 150, 161, 163, 165, 188, 190, 243, 252, 254, 256, 273, 275, 276, 278, 279, 283, 285, 299, 302, 306, 313, 316, 321, 324, 337, 341, 343, 350, 351, 354, 363, 366, 372, 377, 380, 389, 391, 399, 412, 415, 421, 426 Dickson, David, i. 89 Diezman, S. A., i. 32 Dilke, C. W., ii. 12 Eeles, Mr., i. 265, 269 Ely, Miss, i. 153 Fechter, Charles, ii. 183, 185, 191, 260, 297, 361, 368, 390 Fildes, S. L., ii. 435 Finlay, F. D., ii. 297, 389, 408 Fitzgerald, Percy, ii. 203, 217, 234, 237, 247, 263, 293, 294 Forster, John, i. 167, 188, 393; ii. 14, 42, 76, 97, 111, 128, 142, 215 Frith, W. P., i. 79; ii. 439 Gaskell, Mrs., i. 216, 269, 270, 292, 293, 301, 355, 360, 381 Haldimand, Mr., i. 157 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, i. 59 Harley, J. P., i. 5, 23 Harness, Rev. W., i. 37, 76, 361 Henderson, Mrs., ii. 293 Hogarth, Catherine, i. 3 Hogarth, Miss, i. 135, 177, 183, 319, 320, 322, 325, 337, 359, 385, 426, 428, 429, 435; ii. 28, 31, 33, 51, 55, 58, 61, 65, 70, 74, 75, 79, 126, 132, 137, 151, 152, 156, 158, 162, 165, 172-174, 190, 206, 248, 251, 253, 255, 257, 272, 274, 277, 279, 281, 282, 284-286, 295, 298, 303, 304, 307, 315, 317, 319, 327, 330, 334, 341, 345, 353, 358, 360, 364, 370, 371, 379, 391, 392, 396, 398, 400, 413-419, 421 Hogge, Mrs., ii. 46 Hood, Tom, i. 80 Horne, Mrs., i. 456 Horne, R. H., i. 93 Hughes, Master, i. 14 Hulkes, Mrs., ii. 232 Jerrold, Douglas, i. 87, 90, 118, 154, 427 Jewish Lady, a, ii. 204, 223, 280 Joll, Miss, i. 209 Jones, Walter, ii. 232 Keeley, Robert, i. 105 Kent, W. Charles, i. 188, 461; ii. 225, 239, 246, 299, 394, 429, 437, 439, 441, 443 Knight, Charles, i. 104, 152, 218, 259, 277, 280, 349, 351; ii. 195, 212 Knowles, Sheridan, i. 215 Landor, Walter Savage, i. 157, 230, 313, 343, 441 Landseer, Edwin, i. 103 Layard, A. H., i. 390, 391 Lehmann, Mrs. F., ii. 196, 234, 395, 413 Lemon, Mark, i. 192, 203, 207, 243, 281, 394, 396, 416, 439, 440 Longman, Thomas, i. 73; ii. 106 Longman, William, i. 24 Lovejoy, G., i. 44 Lytton, Sir E. B., ii. 116 Maclise, Daniel, i. 33, 105 Macready, W. C., i. 5, 16, 17, 18, 24, 26, 27, 49, 52, 60, 77, 79, 95, 117, 129, 141, 144, 146, 154, 183, 187, 194, 195, 198, 247, 252, 273, 283, 300, 307, 368, 399, 404, 430, 431, 446, 451, 459; ii. 10, 19, 22, 46, 109, 141, 150, 192, 197, 226, 227, 229, 265, 373, 383, 424, 429, 436 Major, Mrs., ii. 196 Makeham, John, ii. 444 Marston, Dr. Westland, ii. 43 Milnes, R. Monckton, i. 41 Mitton, Thomas, i. 10, 19, 56, 58, 65, 121, 136, 458; ii. 229 Morpeth, Viscount, i. 92, 146, and see Carlisle, The Earl of Ollier, Edmund, ii. 213, 425 Ouvry, F., ii. 205, 427 Owen, Professor, ii. 235 Panizzi, Antonio, ii. 89, 90, 92 Pardoe, Miss, i. 73 Parkinson, J. C., ii. 401 Pollock, Mrs. F., ii. 440 Pollock, Sir F., ii. 214 Poole, John, i. 236 Power, Miss, i. 179, 181, 460; ii. 127, 194 Power, Mrs., ii. 300 Procter, Adelaide, i. 374 Procter, B. W., i. 354; ii. 5, 82, 90, 223, 259 Procter, Mrs., ii. 226, 238 Reade, Charles, ii. 206 Regnier, Monsieur, i. 302, 303, 383, 411; ii. 44, 45, 102, 105, 189 Roberts, David, i. 215, 246, 248, 389 Russell, Lord John, i. 277, 316; ii. 118, 235, 422 Ryland, Arthur, i. 349, 382, 388; ii. 34, 233, 426, 428 Sandys, William, i. 178 Saunders, John, i. 366 Sculthorpe, W. R., ii. 104 Smith, Arthur, ii. 85, 147 Smith, H. P., i. 74, 179, 181 Stanfield, Clarkson, i. 92, 102, 113, 144, 151, 205, 299, 373, 394, 395, 398; ii. 184, 219, 287 Stanfield, George, ii. 289 Stone, Marcus, i. 340; ii. 211, 236 Stone, Frank, i. 199-201, 206, 259, 261, 295, 305, 355, 365, 396, 397; ii. 16, 24, 25, 27, 35, 82, 103 Storrar, Mrs., ii. 216 "Sun, The," the editor of, i. 187 Tagart, Edward, i. 111, 173 Talfourd, Miss Mary, i. 51 Talfourd, Serjeant, i. 10 Tennent, Sir James Emerson, i. 329; ii. 6, 218, 259 Thackeray, W. M., ii. 41 Thornbury, Walter, ii. 178, 262, 286 Tomlin, John, i. 40 Toole, J. L., ii. 300 Trollope, Mrs., i. 81, 397 Viardot, Madame, i. 412 Ward, E. M., ii. 141 Ward, Mrs., ii. 441 Watkins, John, i. 287; ii. 148 Watson, Hon. Mrs., i. 171, 196, 209, 226, 228, 231, 234, 237, 242, 254, 276, 282, 289, 309, 317, 343, 370, 402, 412, 453; ii. 93, 121, 144, 301, 382 Watson, Hon. R., i. 159 White, Mrs., ii. 94 White, Miss, ii. 92 White, Rev. James, i. 149, 193, 208, 217, 220, 288, 291, 292, 350; ii. 11, 15, 81, 97 Wills, W. H., i. 148-150, 219, 221, 222, 244, 250, 285, 286, 292, 295, 299, 303, 304, 307, 315, 333, 334, 352, 357, 384, 387, 401, 407, 408, 410, 415, 433, 450, 452; ii. 119, 167, 168, 171, 207, 290, 292, 295, 301, 386, 422, 433 Wilson, Effingham, i. 199 Yates, Edmund, ii. 20, 34, 41, 47, 91, 123, 149, 238 Yates, Mrs., ii. 48

Lewes, G. H., i. 170

"Lighthouse, The," the play of, i. 337; Dickens's prologue to, i. 461; Dickens's "Song of the Wreck" in, i. 461; and see ii. 198

Linton, Mrs., ii. 207

Lion, a chained, i. 144

Literary Fund, the, ii. 5, 12

"Little Dorrit," i. 378, 413, 415; proposed name of, i. 402; sale of, i. 426; letters concerning, i. 402, 403, 406, 426

Lockhart, Mr., ii. 207

London, the Mayor of, from a French point of view, i. 175; in September, i. 318; Dickens's opinion of the Corporation of, i. 389; ii. 411; facetious advice to country visitors to, i. 252

Longfellow, W. H., ii. 306, 308, 312, 326, 333, 361, 375

Longman, Thomas, letters to, i. 73; ii. 106

Longman, William, letter to, i. 24

Lovejoy, G., i. 44

Lowell, Miss Mabel, ii. 405, 415

Lyceum Theatre under Fechter, ii. 187, 191, 245; and see Fechter

Lyndhurst, Lord, i. 147; ii. 144

Lynn, Miss, i. 378

Lyttelton, Hon. Spencer, i. 239, 245

Lytton, the first Lord, i. 214, 239; ii. 108, 135, 143, 247, 268; letter to, ii. 116

Lytton, Lord, ii. 108

Maclise, Daniel, i. 18, 23, 80, 177, 370; ii. 432; letters to, i. 33, 105

Macready, W. C., i. 94, 133, 239, 413; ii. 169, 172, 173; and see Letters

Macready, Benvenuta, i. 431; ii. 194

Macready, Kate, i. 415; ii. 193

Macready, Mrs., ii. 172, 288

Macready, Jonathan, ii. 376

Macready, Nina, i. 195

Macready, W., ii. 425

Major, Mrs., letter to, ii. 196

Makeham, J. M., ii. 432; Dickens's last letter written to, ii. 444

Malleson, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 315

Marsh, Dickens's coachman, a story of, ii. 181

Marston, Dr. Westland, ii. 42, 44, 45; letter to, ii. 43

Martineau, i. 61, 229

"Martin Chuzzlewit," i. 53; dramatised, i. 95, 105; a story of Mrs. Harris, ii. 41

"Master Humphrey's Clock," i. 28; the plan of, described, i. 29; letters concerning illustrations for, i. 29-31, 33-36, 38-40, 45-47, 50-51

"Memoires du Diable, Les," i. 444

Mesmerism, a seance of, ii. 100

Missionaries, Dickens on, i. 227; ii. 241

Mitton, Thomas, see Letters

Molesworth, Lady, ii. 187, 189

Monuments, Dickens on, i. 287, 356

Moore, Tom, i. 163

Morgan, Captain, ii. 136, 143

Morgan, W., ii. 308, 336

Morley, Mr., i. 399

Morpeth, Viscount, letters to, i. 92, 146; and see Carlisle, The Earl of

Motley, Mr., ii. 142

Mountain, a hazardous ascent of a, ii. 29

Mulgrave, Earl of, i. 57

Narrative, i. 1, 4, 6, 17, 28, 36, 53, 57, 85, 94, 134, 147, 169, 185, 204, 213, 239, 271, 296, 341, 376, 413; ii. 3, 39, 83, 107, 135, 169, 187, 208, 224, 244, 266, 325, 404, 431, 446

Nathan, Messrs. H. and L., i. 232, 233, 235

Neville, Mr., ii. 186

Newsvendors' Benevolent Institution, ii. 232

New Testament, Dickens's love for the, ii. 394, 403; Dickens writes a history of the, for his children, ii. 433

"Nicholas Nickleby," publication of, i. 6; rewards and punishments of characters in, i. 14; Dickens at work on, i. 16; dedication of, i, 26; the Kenwigs in, i, 25; and see ii. 200

Nicknames, Dickens's, of George Cattermole, i. 42, 143; of his children, i. 76, 126, 170, 322, 338, 453; nautical, i. 152; of himself, i. 198, 206, 307, 362; of Frank Stone, i. 214, 305

Norton, C. E., ii. 326

Noviomagians, the, i. 272

"Old Curiosity Shop, The," Dickens engaged on, i. 28; scenes in, described by Dickens for illustration, i. 21, 33-37, 42; Dickens heartbroken over the story, i. 36, 37, 42

"Oliver Twist," publication of, i. 4; Dickens at work on, i. 11; the reading of "The Murder" from, ii. 326, 395, 397, 399

Ollier, Edmund, ii. 209, 407; letters to, ii. 213, 425

Olliffe, Lady, ii. 187, 190

Olliffe, Sir J., ii. 417

Olliffe, the Misses, ii. 190

Organs, street, i. 104

Osgood, Mr., ii. 310, 336, 337, 340, 346, 352, 356, 366

"Our Mutual Friend," ii. 208, 210, 224; and as to illustrations for, see ii. 211, 237

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

Overs, i. 37, 49

Owen, Professor, ii. 235

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

Pardoe, Miss, letter to, i. 73

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

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

Parrots, human, i. 87, 121

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

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

Paxton, Sir Joseph, i. 446

Phelps, J., i. 366

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

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

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

Plessy, Madame, i. 412; ii. 440

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

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

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

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

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

Postman, an Albaro, i. 112, 117

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

Power, Nelly, i. 443

Power, Mrs., letter to, ii. 300

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

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

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

Procter, B. W., i. 341; ii. 83, 91; and see Letters

Procter, Mrs., letter to, ii. 226, 238

Publishing system, how to improve the, i. 86

Purse, the power of the, i. 88

Putnam, Mr., ii. 312

Queen, the, Dickens's theatrical performance before, i. 239; his feeling for, ii. 168; his interview with, ii. 432

Rae, Dr., i. 373

Railways, ii. 242

Reade, Charles, ii. 188; letter to, ii. 206

Reader, Charles Dickens as a, ii. 437

Readings, Dickens's public, for charities, i. 297, 341, 377; ii. 4, 169, 170; first reading for his own benefit, ii. 39; at Paris, ii. 187, 189, 192; in America, ii. 267; farewell series of readings in England, ii. 326, 404, 405; trial reading of "The Murder" from "Oliver Twist," ii. 326; reading to the actors, ii. 407, 418; farewell reading, ii. 431; effects of "The Murder" reading on Dickens, ii. 434; books of the, ii. 438; letters concerning the readings in England, Scotland, and Ireland, i. 344, 348, 369, 371, 379, 382, 388, 413, 424; ii. 20, 49, 51-67, 70-80, 87, 103, 145, 147, 151-168, 174, 178, 197, 200, 251-258, 272-286; letters concerning American, ii. 83, 85, 290, 294, 298, 299, 306-382; letters concerning the farewell series of, ii. 391, 392, 395-400, 412-421

Reform, Dickens speaks on Administrative, i. 377, 399; association for, i. 399; Dickens on Parliamentary, ii. 87, 269

Refreshment rooms, i. 424

Regnier, M., i. 298; and see Letters

Reynolds, Dr. Russell, ii. 448

Richardson, Samuel, Dickens's opinion of, i. 175

"Rivals, The," a scene from, rewritten, i. 345

Roberts, David, i. 214; ii. 75; letters to, i. 215, 246, 248, 389

"Robinson Crusoe," Dickens on, i. 443

Robson, F., i. 451

Roche, Dickens's courier, i. 95, 122-126, 139

Rochester Cathedral, proposed burial of Dickens in, ii. 448

Royal Academy, female students at the, ii. 121; Dickens's last public appearance, at the dinner of the, ii. 431

Russel, Alexander, ii. 389, 390, 398, 406

Russell, Lord John, i. 272; ii. 85; and see Letters

Russell, W. H., ii. 4

Ryland, Arthur, ii. 4, 430; and see Letters

Sainton-Dolby, Madame, ii. 295, 391

Sanatorium for art-students, i. 102

Sand, Georges, i. 420

Sandys, William, letter to, i. 178

Saunders, John, i. 341; letter to, i. 366

Savage, i. 271

Saville, Miss, ii. 186

Scheffer, Ary, i. 414, 434; ii. 149

Schoolmistress, a Yorkshire, i. 8

Scott, Sir Walter, i. 22, 254

Scott, Dickens's dresser, ii. 272, 305, 306, 317, 321, 342, 370, 416

Scribe, Eugene, i. 430, 432

Sculthorpe, W. R., letter to, ii. 104

Seaside, the, in wet weather, i. 90

Sea voyage, a, i. 322

Shaftesbury, Lord, ii. 242

Shakespeare, Dickens in room of, i. 13; Dickens's criticisms of Charles Knight's biography of, i. 152; and see i. 178

Shea, Mr. Justice, ii. 247

Shower-bath, a perpetual, i. 207

"Sketches," publication of the, i. 1

Smith, Arthur, ii. 4, 39, 52, 53, 56-60, 64-67, 71, 72, 78, 80, 104, 109, 135, 145, 149-153; letters to, ii. 85, 147

Smith, H. P., letters to, i. 74, 179, 181

Smith, Sydney, i. 24

Smollett, Dickens on the works of, i. 356

Snevellicci, Miss, in real life, i. 13

Snore, a mighty, i. 158

Songs by Dickens: on Mark Lemon, i. 207; of "The Wreck" in "The Lighthouse," i. 461

Speaking, Dickens on public, ii. 426, 428; advice to his son Henry on public, ii. 435

Spencer, Lord, i. 242

Spider, a fearful, i. 180

Spiritualism, Dickens on, i. 350, 397

Stage-coach, American story of a, ii. 292

Stage suggestions, i. 79; a stage mob, i. 174; a piece of stage business, i. 156

Stanfield, Clarkson, i. 370, 377, 429, 435, 454; ii. 75, 194, 267; and see Letters

Stanfield, George, letter to, ii. 289

Stanley, Dean, ii. 448, 449

Stanley, Lady Augusta, ii. 449

Staplehurst, Dickens in the railway accident at, ii. 224; description of the accident, ii. 229-233; effects of the accident on Dickens, ii. 388

Staunton, Mr. Secretary, ii. 351

Steele, Sir Richard, Dickens on Forster's essay on, i. 393

Steele, Mr., ii. 447, 448

Stone, Arthur, i. 436

Stone, Ellen, ii. 81

Stone, Frank, i. 134, 143, 225, 240; ii. 84; and see Letters

Stone, Marcus, i. 299; ii. 84, 106, 208; letters to, i. 340; ii. 211, 236

Storrar, Mrs., ii. 209; letter to, ii. 216

"Strange Gentleman, The," farce written by Dickens and produced, i. 4; price of, i. 5; sent to Macready, i. 16

Strikes, Dickens on, i. 416

Sumner, Charles, ii. 351, 355

Sun, The, newspaper, ii. 225; letter to editor of, i. 187

Switzerland, the Simplon Pass in, i. 127; pleasant recollections of, i. 197, 218; Dickens at Lausanne in, i. 147; a revolution in, i. 155, 175; friends in, i. 157; Dickens's love for, i. 158; letters concerning Lausanne in, i. 147, 154, 160, 172, 179

Sympathy, letters of, i. 193, 265, 282, 283, 394; ii. 94, 97, 123, 154, 180, 289, 293

Tagart, Edward, letters to, i. 111, 173

"Tale of Two Cities, A," ii. 83, 84, 158; letters concerning, ii. 98, 102, 105, 106, 116

Talfourd, Miss Mary, letter to, i. 51

Talfourd, Mr. Justice, i. 7; letter to, i. 10

Tauechnitz, Baron, i. 188, 195

Tavistock House, purchase of, i. 240; sale of, ii. 107; letters concerning, i. 259, 261-266

Taxation, Dickens on, i. 218; of newspapers, i. 273

Taylor, Bayard, ii. 405

Telegraph, the dramatic side of the, i. 417

Tennent, Sir James Emerson, i. 298; ii. 209, 224; letters to, i. 329; ii. 218, 259

Tenniel, John, i. 241

Tennyson, Alfred, Dickens's admiration for, ii. 98

Terry, Miss Kate, ii. 193

Thackeray, W. M., ii. 4, 39, 137, 208, 210, 214; letter to, ii. 41

Thames, drainage of the, ii. 50; embankment of the, ii. 410

Theatre, Dickens at the, i. 13; Phiz's laughter at the, i. 13; the saloon at Drury Lane, i. 37, 52; scents of a, i. 96; story of a, i. 144; proposal for a national, i. 199; Dickens on the, ii. 271, 438

Theatrical Fund, the, ii. 35

Theatrical performances of Charles Dickens: at Montreal, i. 72; at Miss Kelly's Theatre, i. 134; "Fortunio" at Tavistock House, i. 376, 381; "The Lighthouse," i. 377, 394-397; "The Frozen Deep," i. 414; for the Jerrold Memorial Fund, ii. 19, 23; before the Queen, i. 239; and see i. 170, 185, 239, 241, 271, 376, 377, 414; ii. 3; letters concerning the, i. 141, 143, 144, 146, 181, 192, 196, 224-228, 231, 232, 234, 244, 268, 398, 433, 453, 454, 457, 459, 460; ii. 6, 11, 198

Thornbury, Walter, ii. 170, 292; letters to, ii. 178, 262, 286

Tomlin, John, letter to, i. 40

Toole, J. L., ii. 54, 268; letter to, ii. 300

Topham, F. W., i. 241, 269

Townshend, Chauncey Hare, ii. 7, 86, 96, 115, 136, 140, 371, 410

Trollope, Mrs., letters to, i. 80, 397

"Uncle Tom's Cabin," Dickens on, i. 289

"Uncommercial Traveller, The," ii. 107

Viardot, Madame, ii. 193; letter to, i. 412

"Village Coquettes, The," operetta written by Dickens, i. 5; and see i. 93

Volunteers, Dickens on the, ii. 115

Waistcoat, a wonderful, i. 102; the loan by Dickens of Macready's, i. 146

Wales, the Prince of, popularity of, ii. 203; Dickens attends levee of, ii. 432

Wales, the Princess of, her arrival in England, ii. 195; the illuminations in honour of, ii. 198; popularity of, ii. 203

War, Dickens on the Russian, i. 379

Ward, E. M., i. 341; letter to, ii. 141

Ward, Mrs., letter to, ii. 441

Watkins, John, i. 415; letters to, i. 287; ii. 148

Watson, Hon. R., i. 147, 280; letter to, i. 159

Watson, Hon. Mrs., i. 147; ii. 9, 70; and see Letters

Watson, Sir Thomas, ii. 405, 407

Watson, Wentworth, ii. 79

Watts's refuge for poor travellers, ii. 259

Webster, Benjamin, i. 85, 90, 434; ii. 361

Webster, a story of the murderer, ii. 333

Welcome home, a, i. 117

Westminster Abbey, burial of Dickens in, ii. 448

Whewell, Dr., i. 372

White, Clara, ii. 142, 181, 208

White, Rev. James, i. 149, 413; ii. 209; and see Letters

White, Mrs., ii. 212; letter to, ii. 94

White, Miss, ii. 81, 84, 96; letter to, ii. 92

White, Richard Grant, ii. 85

Wigan, Alfred, i. 429

Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Barney, ii. 337, 359

Wills, W. H., i. 148, 241, 375; ii. 83, 379, 383, 406, 430; and see Letters

Wills, Mrs., ii. 75, 96, 120

Wilson, Effingham, letter to, i. 199

Working men, clubs for, ii. 209, 213; Dickens on the management of such clubs, ii. 356; feeling of, for Dickens, ii. 420

Yates, Edmund, i. 414, 426; ii. 5, 129; and see Letters

Yates, Mrs., ii. 129; letter to, ii. 48

THE END.

CHARLES DICKENS AND EVANS, CRYSTAL PALACE PRESS.

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Transcriber's Notes:

Page 142, "Leotard" changed to "Leotard" twice (Palace and Leotard) and (into seeing Leotard)

Page 181, "shefound" changed to "she found" (she found Marsh)

Page 432, "levee" changed to "levee" (a levee held)

Page 453, "Celeste" changed to "Celeste" (Celeste, Madame)

Page 454-455, entries for "Dickens, Mamie" and "Dickens, Kate" were originally not in alphabetically order. This was corrected.

Page 456, "Fitzgreene" changed to "Fitz-Greene" (Halleck, Fitz-Greene)

Page 458, "Fitzgreene" changed to "Fitz-Greene" (Halleck, Fitz-Greene)

Page 460, "Lyttleton" changed to "Lyttelton" (Lyttleton, Hon. Spencer)

Page 462, "Shee" changed to "Shea" (Shea, Mr. Justice)

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