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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

Céleste, 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 Athenæum 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 Athenæum, 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 levée 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;