CHAPTER XIV.
A FINAL TRAMP IN ROCHESTER AND LONDON.
"You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, . . . you have been in every prospect I have ever seen since--on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets."--_Great Expectations._
"The magic reel, which, rolling on before, has led the Chronicler thus far, now slackens in its pace, and stops. It lies before the goal; the pursuit is at an end. . . . Good-night, and heaven send our journey may have a prosperous ending."--_The Old Curiosity Shop._
IT is the morning of Saturday, the first of September, 1888, when our wonderfully pleasant week's tramp in "Dickens-Land" comes to an end. We have carried out every detail of our programme, without a single _contretemps_ to mar the enjoyment of our delightful holiday; we have visited not only the spots where the childhood and youth of Charles Dickens were passed, and where the influence of the environment is specially traceable in the tone of both his earlier and later writings, but we have gone over and identified (as we proposed to do) a number of places in which he delighted, and often described in those writings, peopling them with airy characters (but to us most real), in whose footsteps we have walked. We have seen the place where he was born; we have seen nearly all the houses in which he lived in after life; and we have been over the charming home occupied by him for fourteen years, where his last moments passed away under the affectionate and reverential solicitude of his sons and daughters, and of Miss Hogarth, his sister-in-law, "the ever-useful, self-denying, and devoted friend."
And now we linger lovingly about a few of the streets and places in "the ancient city," and especially in the precincts of the venerable Cathedral, all sanctified by the memory of the mighty dead. We fain would prolong our visit, but the "stern mandate of duty," as Immanuel Kant called it, prevails, and we bow to the inevitable; or as Mr. Herbert Spencer better puts it, "our duty is our pleasure, and our greatest happiness consists in achieving the happiness of others." We feel our departure to-day the more keenly, as everything tempts us to stay. Listening for a moment at the open door--the beautiful west door--of the Cathedral, in this glorious morning in early autumn, we hear the harmonies of the organ and choir softly wafted to us from within; we feel the delicious morning air, which comes over the old Castle and burial-ground from the Kentish hills; we see the bright and beautiful flowers and foliage of the lovely catalpa tree, through which the sunlight glints; a solemn calm pervades the spot as the hum of the city is hushed; and, although we have read them over and over again, now, for the first time, do we adequately realize the exquisitely touching lines on the last page of _Edwin Drood_, written by the master-hand that was so soon to be stilled for ever:--
"A brilliant morning shines on the old City. Its antiquities and ruins are surpassingly beautiful, with the lusty ivy gleaming in the sun, and the rich trees waving in the balmy air. Changes of glorious light from moving boughs, songs of birds, scents from gardens, woods and fields--or, rather, from the one great garden of the whole of the cultivated island in its yielding time--penetrate into the Cathedral, subdue its earthy odour, and preach the Resurrection and the Life. The cold stone tombs of centuries ago grow warm; and flecks of brightness dart into the sternest marble corners of the building, fluttering there like wings."
Having time to reflect on our experiences, we are able to understand how greatly our feelings and ideas have been influenced for good, both regarding the personality of the novelist and his writings.
In the course of our rambles we have interviewed many people in various walks of life who knew Dickens well, and their interesting replies, mostly given in their own words, vividly bring before our mental vision the _man_ as he actually lived and moved among his neighbours, apart from any glamour with which we, as hero-worshippers, naturally invest him. We see him in his home, beloved by his family, taking kindly interest, as a country gentleman, in the poor of the district, entering into and personally encouraging their sports, and helping them in their distress. To his dependents and tradesmen he was kind, just, and honourable; to his friends genial, hospitable, and true; in himself eager, enthusiastic, and thorough. No man of his day had more friends, and he kept them as long as he lived. His favourite motto, "courage--persevere," comes before us constantly. All that we heard on the other side was contained in the expression--"rather masterful!" Rather masterful? Of course he was rather masterful--otherwise he would never have been Charles Dickens. What does he say in that unconscious description of himself, which he puts into the mouth of Boots at _The Holly-Tree Inn_, when referring to the father of Master Harry Walmers, Junior?
"He was a gentleman of spirit, and good-looking, and held his head up when he walked, and had what you may call Fire about him. He wrote poetry, and he rode, and he ran, and he cricketed, and he danced, and he acted, and he done it all equally beautiful. . . . He was a gentleman that had a will of his own and a eye of his own, and that would be minded."
Perfectly true do we find the summing up of his character, in his home at Gad's Hill, as given by Professor Minto in the last edition of the _Encyclopædia Britannica_ (one of the most faithful, just, and appreciative articles ever written about Dickens):--"Here he worked, and walked, and saw his friends, and was loved and almost worshipped by his poorer neighbours, for miles around."
Although tolerably familiar with most of the writings of Dickens from our youth, and, like many readers, having our favourites which may have absorbed our attention to the exclusion of others, we are bound to say that our little visit to Rochester and its neighbourhood--our "Dickens-Land"--rendered famous all the world over in the novels and minor works, gives a freshness, a brightness, and a reality to our conceptions scarcely expected, and never before experienced. The faithful descriptions of scenery witnessed by us for the first time in and about the "quaint city" of Rochester, the delightful neighbourhood of Cobham, the glorious old city of Canterbury, the dreary marshes and other localities: the more detailed pictures of particular places, like the Castle, the Cathedral, its crypt and tower, the Bull Inn, the Vines, Richard Watts's Charity, and others--the point of the situation in many of these cannot be realized without personal inspection and verification.
And further, as by a sort of reflex action, another feeling comes uppermost in our minds, apart from the mere amusement and enjoyment of Dickens's works: we mean the actual benefits to humanity which, directly or indirectly, arise out of his writings; and we endorse the noble lines of dedication which his friend, Walter Savage Landor, addressed to him in his _Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans_ (1853):--
"Friends as we are, have long been, and ever shall be, I doubt whether I should have prefaced these pages with your name, were it not to register my judgment that, in breaking up and cultivating the unreclaimed wastes of Humanity, no labours have been so strenuous, so continuous, or half so successful, as yours. While the world admires in you an unlimited knowledge of mankind, deep thought, vivid imagination, and bursts of eloquence from unclouded heights, no less am I delighted when I see you at the school-room you have liberated from cruelty, and at the cottage you have purified from disease."
We have before us--its edges browned by age--a reprint of a letter largely circulated at the time, addressed by Dickens to _The Times_, dated "Devonshire Terrace, 13th Novr., 1849," in which he describes, in graphic and powerful language, the ribald and disgusting scenes which he witnessed at Horsemonger Lane Gaol on the occasion of the execution of the Mannings. The letter is too long to quote in its entirety, but the following extract will suffice:--"I have seen habitually some of the worst sources of general contamination and corruption in this country, and I think there are not many phases of London life that could surprise me. I am solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city in the same compass of time could work such ruin as one public execution, and I stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it exhibits." The letter contains an urgent appeal to the then Home Secretary, Sir George Grey, "as a solemn duty which he owes to society, and a responsibility which he cannot for ever put away," to originate an immediate legislative change in this respect. Forster says in allusion to the above-mentioned letter:--"There began an active agitation against public executions, which never ceased until the salutary change was effected which has worked so well." Dickens happily lived to see the fruition of his labours, for the Private Execution Act was passed in 1868, and the last public execution took place at Newgate on 26th May of that year. As indicative of the new state of feeling at that time, it may be mentioned that the number of spectators was not large, and they were observed to conduct themselves with unusual decorum.
It is valuable to record this as one of many public reforms which Dickens by his writings and influence certainly helped to accomplish. In his standard work on _Popular Government_ (1885), Sir Henry Sumner Maine says:-"Dickens, who spent his early manhood among the politicians of 1832, trained in Bentham's school, [Bentham, by the bye, being quoted in _Edwin Drood_,] hardly ever wrote a novel without attacking an abuse. The procedure of the Court of Chancery and of the Ecclesiastical Courts, the delays of the Public Offices, the costliness of divorce, the state of the dwellings of the poor, and the condition of the cheap schools in the North of England, furnished him with what he seemed to consider, in all sincerity, the true moral of a series of fictions."
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We bid a kindly adieu to the "dear old City" where so many genial friends have been made, so many happy hours have been passed, so many pleasant memories have been stored, and for the time leave
"the pensive glory, That fills the Kentish hills,"
to take our seats in the train for London, with the intention of paying a brief visit to South Kensington, where, in the Forster Collection of the Museum, are treasured the greater portion of the manuscripts which constitute the principal works of Charles Dickens. It will be remembered that the Will of the great novelist contained the following simple but important clause:--"I also give to the said John Forster (whom he previously referred to as 'my dear and trusty friend') such manuscripts of my published works as may be in my possession at the time of my decease;" and that Mr. Forster by his Will bequeathed these priceless treasures to his wife for her life, in trust to pass over to the Nation at her decease. Mrs. Forster, who survives her husband, generously relinquished her life interest, in order to give immediate effect to his wishes; and thus in 1876, soon after Mr. Forster's death, they came into the undisturbed possession of the Nation for ever.
Besides the manuscripts there are numbers of holograph letters, original sketches (including "The Apotheosis of Grip the Raven") by D. Maclise, R.A., and other interesting memorials relating to Charles Dickens. _The Handbook to the Dyce and Forster Collections_ rightly says that:--"This is a gift which will ever have the highest value, and be regarded with the deepest interest by people of every English-speaking nation, as long as the English language exists. Not only our own countrymen, but travellers from every country and colony into which Englishmen have spread, may here examine the original manuscripts of books which have been more widely read than any other uninspired writings throughout the world. Thousands, it cannot be doubted, who have been indebted for many an hour of pleasurable enjoyment when in health, for many an hour of solace when in weariness and pain, to these novels, will be glad to look upon them as each sheet was sent last to the printer, full of innumerable corrections from the hand of Charles Dickens."
The manuscripts are fifteen in number, bound up into large quarto volumes, and comprise:--
1. _Oliver Twist_--two Volumes, with Preface to the _Pickwick Papers_, and matter relating to _Master Humphrey's Clock_.
2. _Sketches of Young Couples._
3. _The Lamplighter_, a Farce. This MS. is not in the handwriting of Dickens.
4. _The Old Curiosity Shop_--two Volumes, with Letter to Mr. Forster of 17th January, 1841, and hints for some chapters.
5. _Barnaby Rudge_--two Volumes.
6. _American Notes._
7. _Martin Chuzzlewit_--two Volumes, with various title-pages, notes as to the names, &c., and dedication to Miss Burdett Coutts.
8. _The Chimes._
9. _Dombey and Son_--two Volumes, with title-pages, headings of chapters, and memoranda.
10. _David Copperfield_--two Volumes, with various title-pages, and memoranda as to names.
11. _Bleak House_--two Volumes, with suggestions for title-pages and other memoranda.
12. _Hard Times_--with memoranda.
13. _Little Dorrit_--two Volumes, with memoranda, Dedication to Clarkson Stanfield, and Preface.
14. _A Tale of Two Cities_--with Dedication to Lord John Russell, and Preface.
15. _Edwin Drood_--unfinished, with memoranda, and headings for chapters.
John Forster says:--"The last page of _Edwin Drood_ was written in the châlet in the afternoon of his last day of consciousness."
Of the above-mentioned, the calligraphy of Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, is seen at a glance to be larger, bolder, and to have fewer corrections. In Nos. 5 to 15 it is smaller, and more confused by numerous alterations. According to Forster--"His greater pains and elaboration of writing became first very obvious in the later parts of _Martin Chuzzlewit_."
The manuscripts of the earliest works of the Author, _Sketches by Boz_, _Pickwick_, _Nicholas Nickleby_, &c., were evidently not considered at the time worth preserving. The manuscript of _Our Mutual Friend_, given by Dickens to Mr. E. S. Dallas--in grateful acknowledgment of an appreciative review which (according to an article in _Scribner_, entitled "Our Mutual Friend in Manuscript") Mr. Dallas wrote of the novel for _The Times_, which largely increased the sale of the book, and fully established its success,--is in the library of Mr. G. W. Childs of Philadelphia; and that of _A Christmas Carol_--given by Dickens to his old friend and school-fellow, Tom Mitton--was for sale in Birmingham a few years ago, and might have been purchased for two hundred and fifty guineas! It is now owned by Mr. Stuart M. Samuel, and has since been beautifully reproduced in fac-simile, with an Introduction by my friend and fellow-tramp, Mr. F. G. Kitton. Mr. Wright, of Paris, is the fortunate possessor of _The Battle of Life_. The proof-sheets of _Great Expectations_ are in the Museum at Wisbech. Messrs. Jarvis and Son, of King William Street, Strand, sold some time since four of the MSS. of minor articles contributed by Dickens to _Household Words_ in 1855-6, viz. _The Friend of the Lions_, _Demeanour of Murderers_, _That other Public_, and _Our Commission_, for £10 each.
At the sale of the late Mr. Wilkie Collins's manuscripts and library by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, 18th June, 1890, the manuscript of _The Frozen Deep_, by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, 1856 (first performed at Tavistock House, 6th January, 1857), together with the narrative written for _Temple Bar_, 1874, and Prompt Book of the same play, was sold for £300. A poem written by Charles Dickens, as a Prologue to the same play, and _The Song of the Wreck_, also written by Charles Dickens, were sold for £11 11_s._ each. _The Perils of Certain English Prisoners_, a joint production of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens, for the Christmas number of _Household Words_, 1857, realized £200; and the drama of _No Thoroughfare_ (imperfect), also a joint production, fetched £22.
The manuscripts now belonging to the Nation at South Kensington are placed in a glazed cabinet, standing in the middle of the room, on the right of which looks down the life-like portrait of the great novelist, painted by W. P. Frith, R.A., in 1859. The manuscript volumes are laid open in an appropriate manner, so that we have an opportunity of examining and comparing them with one another, and of observing how the precious thoughts which flowed from the fertile brain took shape and became realities.
Where corrections have been made, the original ideas are so obscured that it is scarcely possible to decipher them. This is effected, not by the simple method of an obliteration of the words, as is common with some authors, by means of a line or two run through them at one stroke of the pen, but by a series of connected circles, or scroll-work flourishes, thus, [Illustration] which must have caused greater muscular labour in execution. Let any one try the two methods for himself. Dickens was fond of flourishes, as witness his first published autograph, under the portrait which was issued with _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1839). Some evidence of "writer's cramp," as it is termed, appears where the C in Charles becomes almost a G, and where the line-like flourishes to the signature thirty years later, under the portrait forming the frontispiece to _Edwin Drood_, are much shorter and less elaborate. All the earlier manuscripts are in black ink--the characteristic _blue_ ink, which he was so fond of using in later years, not appearing until _Hard Times_ was written (1854), and this continued to be (with one exception, _Little Dorrit_) his favourite writing medium, for the reason, it is said, that it was fluent to write with and dried quickly.
From a valuable collection of letters (more than a dozen--recently in the possession of Messrs. Noel Conway and Co., of Martineau Street, Birmingham, and kindly shown to me by Mr. Charles Fendelow), written by the novelist between 1832 and 1833 to a friend of his earlier years--Mr. W. H. Kolle--and not hitherto published, it appears that he had not then acquired that precise habit of inscribing the place, day of the week, month, and the year which marked his later correspondence (as has been pointed out by Miss Hogarth and Miss Dickens in the preface to the _Letters of Charles Dickens_), very few of the letters to Mr. Kolle bearing any record whatever except the day of the week, occasionally preceded by Fitzroy Street or Bentinck Street, where he resided at the time. It would be extremely interesting to ascertain the reason which subsequently led him to adopt the extraordinarily precise method which almost invariably marked his correspondence from the year 1840 until the close of his life. Possibly arrangements with publishers and others may have given him the exact habit which afterwards became automatic.
In addition to the manuscripts in the Forster Collection in the Museum there are corrected proofs of a portion of the _Pickwick Papers_, _Dombey and Son_, _David Copperfield_, _Bleak House_, and _Little Dorrit_. Some of the corrections in _Dombey and Son_ are said to be in the handwriting of Mr. Forster. All these proofs show marvellous attention to detail--one of the most conspicuous of Dickens's characteristics. Nothing with him was worth doing unless it was done well. As an illustration of work in this direction, it may be mentioned that a proof copy of the speech delivered at the meeting of the Administrative Reform Association at Drury Lane Theatre on Wednesday, June 27th, 1855, in the possession of the writer of these lines, has over a hundred corrections on the nine pages of which it consists, and many of these occur in punctuation. On careful examination, the alterations show that the correction in every case is a decided improvement on the original. The following _fac-similes_ from the _Hand-Book_ to the _Dyce and Forster Collection_, and from Forster's _Life_, illustrate the earlier, later, and latest handwritings of Charles Dickens as shown in the MSS. of _Oliver Twist_, 1837, _Hard Times_, 1854, and _Edwin Drood_, 1870.
A proof of the fourteenth Chapter of _David Copperfield_, 1850, shows that the allusion to "King Charles the First's head"--about which Mr. Dick was so much troubled--was _not_ contained in the first draft of the story, for the passage originally had reference to "the date when that bull got into the china warehouse and did so much mischief." The subsequent reference to King Charles's head was a happy thought of Dickens, and furthered Mr. Dick's idea of the mistake "of putting some of the trouble out of King Charles's head" into his own.
Mr. R. F. Sketchley, the able and courteous custodian of the collection, allows us to see some of the other rarities in the museum not displayed in the cabinet--prefaces, dedications, and memoranda relating to the novels; letters addressed by Dickens to Forster, Maclise, and others; rare play-bills; and the originals of invitations to the public dinner and ball at New York, which Dickens received on the occasion of his first visit to America in 1842. After turning these over with reverential care, we regretfully leave behind us one of the most interesting and important literary collections ever presented to the Nation.
We next visit the Prerogative Registry of the United Kingdom at Somerset House, wherein is filed the original Will of Charles Dickens. The search for this interesting document pursued by a stranger under pressure of time, strongly reminds one of the "Circumlocution Office" so graphically described in _Bleak House_. But we are enthusiastic, and at length obtain a clue to it in a folio volume (Letter D), containing the names of testators who died in the year 1870, where the Will is briefly recorded (at number 468) as that of "Dickens, Charles, otherwise Charles John Huffham, Esquire." We pay our fees, and take our seats in the reading-room, when the original is presently placed in our hands. It is one of a series of three documents fastened together by a bit of green silk cord, and secured by the seal of the office, as is customary when there are two or more papers filed. The first document is the Will itself, dated 12th May, 1869, written throughout by the novelist very plainly and closely in the characteristic blue ink on a medium sheet of faint blue quarto letter paper, having the usual legal folded margin, and exactly covering the four pages. It is free from corrections, and is signed, "Charles Dickens," under which is the never-to-be-mistaken flourish. The testatum is signed by G. Holsworth, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, and Henry Walker, 26 Wellington Street, Strand, which points to the fact that the Will was written and executed at the office of _All the Year Round_. He appoints "Georgina Hogarth and John Forster executrix and executor, and guardians of the persons of my children during their respective minorities."
The second document is the Oath of John Forster, testifying that Charles Dickens, otherwise Charles John Huffham Dickens, is one and the same person. The third document is a Codicil dated 2nd June, 1870 (only a week before his death), in which the novelist bequeaths "to my son Charles Dickens, the younger, all my share and interest in the weekly journal called _All the Year Round_." The Codicil is witnessed by the same persons. The Will and Codicil are both given in extenso in vol. iii. of Forster's _Life_--the gross amount of the real and personal estate being calculated at £93,000.[38]
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Avery short tramp from Somerset House brings us to the last object of our pilgrimage--the grave of Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey. Surely no admirer of his genius can omit this final mark of honour to the memory of the mighty dead. Many years have rolled by since "the good, the gentle, highly gifted, ever friendly, noble Dickens" passed away; and we stand by the grave in the calm September evening, with "jewels cast upon the pavement of the nave from stained glass by the declining sun," and look down at the dark flat stone lying at our feet, on which is inscribed "in plain English letters," the simple record:--
CHARLES DICKENS, BORN FEBRUARY THE SEVENTH, 1812. DIED JUNE THE NINTH, 1870.
We recall with profoundly sympathetic interest that quietly impressive ceremony as recorded by Forster in the final pages of his able biography. "Before mid-day on Tuesday, the 14th June, 1870, 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." And he further describes the wonderful gathering subsequently:--"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." Dean 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."
What poet, what philosopher, what monarch even, might not envy this loving tribute to the influence of the great writer, to the personal respect for the man, and to the affection for the friend who, by the sterling nature of his work for nearly thirty-five years, had the power to create and sustain such sympathy?
Forster thus admiringly concludes the memoir of his hero:
"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."
"Of making many books there is no end," said the wise man of old; and certainly, if we may estimate the popularity of Charles Dickens by the works of all kinds relating to him, written since his death, the number may be counted by hundreds. It may also be said that probably no other English writer save Shakespeare has been the cause of so much posthumous literature. The sayings of his characters permeate our everyday life, and they continue to be as fresh as when they were first recorded. The original editions of his writings in some cases realize high prices which are simply amazing, and--judging by statistics--his readers are as numerous as ever they were. Higher testimony to the worth "of the most popular novelist of the century, and one of the greatest humourists that England has produced," and to the continued interest which the reading public still evince in the minutest detail relating to him and to his books, can scarcely be uttered; but what is better still--"his sympathies were generally on the right side;"--he has left an example that all may follow;--he did his utmost to leave the world a little better than he found it;--as he said by one of his characters, "the best of men can do no more"--and now he peacefully rests as one
"Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence."
FOOTNOTE:
[38] Mr. Dolby, in his _Charles Dickens as I knew him_, estimates that £45,000 was realized by Dickens's Readings.
L'ENVOI.
WE--my fellow-tramp and I--naturally feel a pang of regret now that our pleasant visit to "Dickens-Land" is terminated. With a parting grasp of the hand I express to the companion of my travels a cordial wish that ere long we may, "PLEASE GOD," renew our delightful experience, and again go over the ground hallowed by Dickens associations; to which my friend, as cordially assenting, replies "SURELY, SURELY!"
With these two favourite expressions of Charles Dickens (quoted above) I conclude the book, trusting that it will prove worthy of some kindly appreciation at the hands of my readers.
INDEX.
CHIEFLY OF NAMES.
À BECKET THOMAS 212 338 340
Adams H. G. 271
Allington 135 290-8
_All the Year Round_ 37 193 374 422
Alphington 209 210
_American Notes_ 45 324
Andersen H. C. 32 374
Anderson Mary 152 169
Athenæum 47
Austin H. 184 330
Aveling S. T. 53-4 80-2 97
Aylesford 288 292 296; Battle of 311 313; Church 290; Churchyard 299; Bridge 290; Friary 297
BAIRD J. 270-1-2
Ball J. H. 68 226-7 235; William 135 226-7-8 230 246
_Barnaby Rudge_ 17 44-5 138
Barnard's Inn 24
_Battle of Life_ 45 211
Bayham Street 38 264
Bell Yard 18
Bentinck Street 25 417
_Bentley's Miscellany_ 47 59
Bevan P. 103 114 251 289 311 324 338
Birmingham 59 239 240; Town Hall 59 239; and Midland Institute 144 239 240
Bishop's Court 20
Blanchard E. L. 393
_Bleak House_ 18 19 20 37 139 268 288 325-7-8 336 357 380 399 421
Bleak House (or Fort House) Broadstairs 327-8-9 333
Bloomsbury Square 31
Blue Bell or Upper Bell 188 310 314 374
Boley (or "Bully") Hill 88 124 158
"Borough English" 83
Boundary Lane 253
British Museum 31
Broadstairs 317 324-333 343-8; Dickens's Residence in High Street 326; Fort House (or "Bleak House") 327-8-9 333; Lawn House 326-7; Look-out House 332
Brompton (New) 80 252 270-5
Brooker Mr. 176
Budden Major 60 167-8-9 173 186-7-8 190-5; Mrs. 168 195 369; James 270-2-3; William J. 269 270 295
Burgate Street 340
Burham 270 295
CAMDEN TOWN 38 264
Canterbury 113 172 336-344 409 Burgate Street 340 Cathedral 338 "Chequers" 343 Dane John 337 "Fountain" 343 Harbledown 348 High Street 337 Museum 340 "Sir John Falstaff" 336 "Sun" 343-4 West Gate 336-7
Canvey Island 351
Chalk 182 391-3; Church 393-4
Chancery Lane 18 20
Chatham 4 28 38 53-4 60 70-1 80 144 188 194 231 251-280 282 Barracks 105 Convict Prison 268 Dockyard 267-9 274 Fort Pitt 104-6 272-280 Giles's Academy 261 High Street 260-2 272-3 House on the Brook 260-1-5-6 273 Lines 273-5-6 Mechanics' Institute 267-9 270-1-3 "Mitre" 60 116 262-3-4 Navy Pay Office 258 274 Ordnance Place 265; Terrace 28 92 257-8 265 274 St. Mary's Church 92 255; Place 260-2
Chelsea--St. Luke's Church 26
Cherry Garden 54
_Child's Dream of a Star_ 262-6
_Child's History of England_ 37 205
Chillington Manor House 308-9 310
_Chimes_ 18 20 41 305
Chorley H. F. 196 200
_Christmas Carol_ 45 239 414
Cinque Ports 345
Cliffe 356 360 373; Church 361
Clifford's Inn 18 19
Cobb R. L. 373-4-5
Cobham 377-8 380-2 386-391 393 409 Châlet 222 384-5 414 Church 391 Hall 186 220-2 380-386 "Leather Bottle" 60 386-390 396 Park 188 194 374-9 380-2-6 396 Schools 382 Woods 380 391 403
Cobham Lord 358
Cobtree Hall 296-299 374
College Gate 72 124-130
Collins W. 32-3-6 152 196 207 374; Sale of MSS. 415; Charles A. 196-8 200-2-6 271 367 404; Mrs. C. A. 200; _and see_ Dickens Kate _and_ Perugini Mrs.
Cooling 349-360; Castle 356-360; Church 351-2; Churchyard 354-7
Cooper T. Sidney 348
Cosham 284
Couchman J. 221-226
Countless Stones 311-2
_Cricket on the Hearth_ 45 161 239
"Crispin and Crispianus" 217-220
Crow Lane 78
"Crown Old" 116
"Crozier" 116
Cruikshank G. 59 140
Cursitor Street 20-2
Cuxton 288-9
DADD R. 396
_Daily News_ 17
"Dane John" 337
Darnley Earl of 202 222 374 382-385 396
_David Copperfield_ 26 39 45-8 91 139 148 219 251-6-8 266-269 284 317 325 340 343-347 356 396-7; _Fac-simile_ 419 421
Davies Rev. G. 194-5; Straits 194-5
Deal 399
Deanery Gatehouse 127-9
Devonshire Terrace 31 41-2-4-6; Street 46
Dickens A. L. 38 184 228; A. T. 47
Dickens Charles:-- Birth 255 285 Birthplace 280-287 Baptism 285 First literary effort 262 Short-hand 249 Marriage 391 and the Serjeant 249 250 and the Bears 402 and Public Executions 410-1 Genealogy (?) 253-4 Dogs 183-4-6 226-8 Châlet 222 384-5 414 Crest 385 Ravens 44 Readings 239 242 271-2 422 Politics 239 240 Illness 243-4 Death 244 369 370 404 Funeral 87-8 401-4 423; Card 226 Grave 423-4 Will 87 286 401 421-2 Manuscripts 412-421 Handwriting _fac-similes_ (1837 1850 1854 1870) 418-420 Corrected Proofs 417 Memorial Brass 137 Memorials 227-9 230 247 371 420 Portraits 59 205 225 272 370 390 415-6 Letters 416-7 Mysterious Dickens-item 246-249
Dickens Mrs. C. 207 231
Dickens C. Junr. 26 32-4 140-5 200-2 294 366 404 422; Edward B. L. 47
Dickens Fanny 262-4 284-5; Harriet E. 262-6
Dickens H. F. 180 198 202-3 221 234 248-9 250 368 374
Dickens J. 38 254-5 265-6 274 283-4-5; Mrs. 38 254-5 285
Dickens Kate 36 90 196 206 367 370 (_and see_ Perugini Mrs. _and_ Collins Mrs. C. A.)
Dickens Miss 31-4 416
Dickenson Mr. 200-1-2-9
Dodd H. 232-3-4
_Dombey and Son_ 45 139 227 317 325
Doughty Street 25-8-9 30
Dover 54 192 345-348; Castle 347; Heights 346; Road 396-400
Drage Rev. W. H. 92; Misses 92-3
"Duck" 117
EASEDOWN MRS. 369-371 373
Eastgate House 72-77 132
East Malling 293
_Edwin Drood_ 6 23-7 46 70-3-4-5 83 106 111 113 115 117 119 120-1-4-8-9 131-4 6-8-9 140-1 171 207 228 247-8-9 288 290 406 411 414 416-7; _Fac-simile_ 420
Exeter 209
"FALSTAFF Sir John" (at Gad's Hill) 163-5-7 175 207-8-9 400; (At Canterbury) 336
Farleigh 290
Faversham 323-4
Fechter Mr. 106 201 221 242
Fildes Luke 23 59 75 106 127-9 140-1 169 228 248
Fisher Bishop 131
Fitzroy Street 417
Fleet Street 17 18
Ford H. 330
Forster J. 2 6 8 19 20 30-8-9 41-4 51 87 93 107 167 174 176-9 182-6-7 196 207-9 221 232-5 258 262 275 310 324-7 335 356-7 364 412-4-7 421-424; Bequest 412-416
Fort Clarence 316
Fort Pitt 104-6 272-280
_Fortunus_ 33
Fountain Court 17
Fox 20
Frindsbury 195 275 294; Church 212 236 350
Frith W. P. 230 395-6 415
Frog Alley 117
_Frozen Deep_ 32-3 86 241
Furnival's Inn 24-27
GAD'S HILL 4 44 60 90-1-3 141 161 _et seq._ 241-8-9 265 393 400 Sixty years ago 191-195 "Falstaff Sir John" 163-5-7 175 207-8-9 400
Gad's Hill Place 31 42-6 85-88 93 132 161-209 217 221-2-3 224-5-7 240-1-3 271 310 363-4-9 370-1 376 400-9 Cedars at 186 192 Châlet 186-7 221-2 Charades at 197 241 Clock 229 Cricket at 208 248-9 372-3 Dick's Grave at 179 _Gazette_ 180 196-8-9 "Plough" 241 Porch at 184 Sale of 235-6 241-6 404 Sale Photograph of 230 Shrubbery at 186 Specification for alterations at 222-3 Sports at 363-4 Sun-dial 228 Theatricals at 241 Tunnel at 184-6 228 Well at 181-2
"Gavelkind" 82
Gibson Mary 46 265-6-7; (_and see_ Weller Mary) Robert 266-7; Thomas 266
Giles Rev. W. 261; Academy 261
Gillingham 275
Gordon Square 31-8; Place 31
Gower Street 38-9
Gravesend 3 91 192 336 361-2 393
_Great Expectations_ 6 7 17 24 37 53 64 70-8 97 156 171 188 269 348 351-354 356-8 398 401-5
_Grimaldi Memoirs of_ 31
Grip the Raven 44
HARBLEDOWN 348
Hard Times 37 416; _Fac-simile_ 419
Hastings 345
_Haunted Man_ 45
Hawke Street 255 284
Head R. 53 88
Higham 87 173-6 182 194 242 362-375 377
Hogarth G. 25; Catherine 26; (_and see_ Dickens Mrs. Charles) E. 34; Mary 29; Georgina 34 86 90 205-6 235-8 242-4 370-5-8 396 406 416 422; William 54
Holborn 22-4-7
_Holly Tree Inn_ 263 408
Homan F. 85-88 117
Hoo 350
Hop-Picking and Cultivation 318-323
Horse Guards 49
Horsted 292
_Household Words_ 45 89 106 142 150 193 257 344 415
House on the Brook 260 1-5-6 273
Hulkes J. 163 195-198 403; Mrs. 196 204-5; C. J. 205
_Hunted Down_ 171
Hyde Park 46; Corner 64; Place 141
Hythe 345
JOHNSON'S COURT 18
John Street 28
KENNETTE A. 78
Kingsgate Street 27
Kit's Coty House 310-313 391
Kitton F. G. 4 38 102 110 127 163 205 248 316 368 393 415
Kolle W. H. 416-7
LAMERT DR. 255; J. 256-8
Landport 255 280-286; Commercial Road 281-2
Lang Andrew 15
Langton R. 2 3 38 83 144 216 252-5-8 264-6 277 281-2-4-6
Lapworth Prof. 6
Larkin C. 163 195
Latter Mrs. 209 400-1-2
Lawn House 326-7
Lawrence J. 59 60
"Leather Bottle" 60 386-390 396
Lemon Mark 32-4-5-6 151 232-4
Levy C. D. 246-7
_Lighthouse_ 33 86 241
Lincoln's Inn 19; Fields 19
Linton Mrs. Lynn 167 191-195
_Little Dorrit_ 37 46 139 161 171 211 416
Littlewood J. E. 272-3
Long Mrs. 333
"Look-out House" 232
MACLISE D. 20 41-4 59 412 421
Maidstone 90-1 140 293 306-310; Road 78 151; Chillington Manor House 308-9 310; Brenchley Gardens 309
Malleson J. N. 201-6
Margate 324 333-4-6; Theatre 334-5
Marsham Rev J. J. 402-3-4
Marshes 142 188 349 350-1-7-8 403-9
_Martin Chuzzlewit_ 17 27 45 56 414
Marzials F. T. 8 29 31
_Master Humphrey's Clock_ 45
Masters Mrs. 217 219 221-6
Mechanics' Institute 267-9 270-1-3
Medway River 52-3-4 67-9 98 103 134-5 162 188 211 253 275 288-9 290-2 309 310-6; Valley 379 382
_Memoirs of Grimaldi_ 31
Middle Temple Lane 17
Mile End Cottage 209 210
Miles Mr. 117 120
Millen T. 90-1
Minor Canon Row 92 122-4-7
Minto Prof. 409
"Mitre" 60 116 262-3-4
Mitton T. 414
Montague Street 31
_Monthly Magazine_ 18
Morgan Mr. 200-1-2
_Morning Chronicle_ 24 26 270
_Mr. Nightingale's Diary_ 35
_Mrs. Joseph Porter over the way_ 18
Mysterious Dickens-item 246-249
NAVY PAY OFFICE CHATHAM 258 274
New Brompton 80 252 270-5
New Romney 345
_Nicholas Nickleby_ 8 31 106 139 210 286 324 416
_No Thoroughfare_ 374
_OLD CURIOSITY SHOP_ 45-9 139 323 349 405
Old Sergeants' Inn 18
_Oliver Twist_ 31 232; _Fac-simile_ 418
Ordnance Terrace 28 92 257-8 265 274; Place 265
_Our English Watering-Place_ 317 324-31
_Our Mutual Friend_ 1 17 18 39 91 171 234 414
Overblow 402-3
Owl Club 59; Harmonious Owls 59
PARLIAMENT STREET 48
Payne G. 130 238
Pearce Sarah 283-4; Mr. 283; William 284
Pear Tree Lane 313 377-8
Pemberton T. Edgar 1 241 286
Perugini Mrs. 248; (_and see_ Dickens Kate _and_ Collins Mrs. C. A.)
_Pickwick Papers_ 5 6 20-6-9 31 50-6 62-7 70-5 111 151 231 251-5 261 273-6-9 293-5 297-306 324 373-6-9 387-8 391-3
_Pictures from Italy_ 18
"Plorn" 202
Porchester Castle 284
Portsea 255 281-2; St. Mary's Church 255 285-6; Hawke Street 255 284
Portsmouth 281-4-6-7; Common Hard 287; Dockyard 285; Theatre 286
Portsmouth Street 19
Prall R. 57 85
Prior's Gate 127-8
Proctor R. A. 138-9
Proctors 148
_Punch_ 90 175
Purkis Mrs. 285
QUARRY HOUSE 212
RAINHAM 317-8; Mear's Barr Farm 318
Ramsgate 336
Reculver 324; The Sisters 324
Red Lion Square 28 31
Regent's Park 39; Street 46 51
Restoration House 53-4 78 80 94-97 132 156
Robertson Rev. Canon 214
Robinson G. 269
Rochester 4 48 51-97 376 396 406-9 "Blue Boar" 64 Boley (or Bully) Hill 88 124 158 Boundary Lane 253 Bridge 50-4 67-70 104 215 217 226-7 "Bull Inn" 54-5 _et seq._ 104 143-5 409 Castle 69 98-110 137 216 396 406-9 Cathedral 53-4 87 90 111-141 216 406-9 Cherry Garden 54 College (or Jasper's) Gate 72 124-130 Crow Lane 78 117 156 "Crozier" 116 Deanery Gatehouse 127-9 "Duck" 117 Eastgate House 72-77 132 Episcopal Palace 130-1 Esplanade 134 Frog Alley 117 Grammar School 81-8 Guildhall 54-5 72 108 High Street 51-3-5 63-4 70 82 116 125 130 145 275 287 296 336 London and County Bank 116 Maidstone Road 78 151 Mathematical School 81 175-6 Men's Institute 75 Minor Canon Row 92 122-4-7 New Road 152 "Old Crown" 116 Prior's Gate 127-8 Restoration House 53-4 78 80 132 156; Ghost Story 94-97 Sapsea's House 72-5-6 117 Satis House 78 97 156-8 Savings Bank 76 116 Sir J. Hawkins's Hospital 81 Sir J. Hayward's Charity 82 Star Hill 70 83 St. Bartholomew's Hospital 81 St. Catherine's Charity 81 St. Margaret's 92; Church 151 St. Nicholas' 81 11 Cemetery 87 136-7 Church 136-7 Theatre 83 143 242 256 Vines (or Monks' Vineyard) 70-8 81 131-2-4 275 409 Watts's Almshouses 151 " Charity 72 142-160 176 409
Rye 345
Ryland Mr. Arthur 144-5; Mrs. 33 144
SANDLING 310
Sandwich 345
Sapsea's House 72-5-6 117
Satis House 78 97 156-8
_Seven Poor Travellers_ 70 98 106 142-3 150 160 380
Seymour R. 58
Sheerness 54; Cockle-shell Hard 101
Sheppard Dr. 342-3-4
Shorne 87 137 194 358 391-3 400-2; Church 403-4; Ridgway 379
Sisters Reculver 324
_Sketches by Boz_ 26 64 258 270
_Sketches of Young Gentlemen_ 31; _of Young Couples_ 31
Smetham Henry 368
Smith C. Roach 52 101 148 231-238 290 311 366
Smith E. Orford 303
Snodland 288 290; Brook 135; Weir 135
Somerset House 38 264 421-3
_Song of the Wreck_ 33-4-5 415
South Kensington Museum 249 396 412
Spencer Herbert 190 406
Stanfield C. 20 32-3 86 241
Stanley Dean 88 137 423
Staplehurst 93; Accident 198 200-1-9
Staple Inn 22-4-7
Star Hill 70 83
Steele Dr. 174 237-246
Sterry J. Ashby 3 329 345-6
Stone F. 36; M. 91 196 200-2-7
_Strange Gentleman_ 26
St. Luke's Church Chelsea 26
St. Margaret's 92; Church 151
St. Mary's Church Chatham 92 255; Place 260-2
St. Mary's Church Portsea 255 285-6
St. Nicholas' Church Rochester 81 114 136-7; Cemetery 87 136-7
St. Nicholas' Church Strood 211
St. Pancras' Road 39; Church 39
Strood 50-5 68 80 162 182 195 211-250 "Crispin and Crispianus" 217-220 Elocution Society 235 St. Nicholas' Church 211 Preceptory 212 Quarry House 212 Temple Farm 211
_Sunday under Three Heads_ 26
Symond's Inn 19
Syms Mr. 82 115-117
_TALE OF TWO CITIES_ 17 37-9 171 204 397
Tavistock Square 32; House 32-3-6-7 42 86 171 325
Taylor Mrs. 368-9
Temple 17; Bar 17; Middle Temple Lane 17; Fountain Court 17
Temple Farm 211
Thackeray W. M. 24-6-7 234
Thames River 188 314 350; Valley 358 378 403
_Times_ 410-414
Tom-All-Alone's 268
_Tom Thumb_ 33
Town Malling 292-3-4 302-306
Tribe Ald. 264; Master and Miss 258 264; John 264
Trood W. S. 175 206-209 400; Edward 2 7 220
_UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER_ 6 7 37 83 159 163-5 171 220 264-9 278
Upnor Castle 155
_VILLAGE COQUETTES_ 376
Vines The 70-8 81 131-2-4 275
WAGHORN LIEUT. 257
Watts Richard 55 142; Almshouses 151; Charity 72 142-160 176; Memorial 157-8
Weald of Kent 316
Weller Mary 265-6; (_and see_ Gibson Mary)
Westminster Abbey 87-8 137 404 423-4
Whiston Rev. R. 88-90 160
Whitefriars Street 17
Whitehall 48
Whitstable 323
Wildish W. T. 82 118 175 265 382
Wills W. H. 152; W. G. 152 193-4
Winchelsea 345
Woburn Square 31
Wood H. 273-4
Worsfold C. K. 347
_Wreck of the Golden Mary_ 260
Wright Mr. 372-3 415; Mrs. 370-373
THE END.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired with the exception of the rounded brackets on pages 224 and 225 as those were replicas of printings. These two instances were left open but not closed.
Page xiv, "round" changed to "Round" (where "All the Year Round")
Page 132, "entited" changed to "entitled" (the illustration entitled)
Page 414, "caligraphy" changed to "calligraphy" (the calligraphy of)