Chapter 5

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

Féval, 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

Lemaître, M., i. 386

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

Lemon, Mrs., i. 419

Léotard, 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;