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early relations of Dickens with, i. 144, 145; share of copyright in _Pickwick_ conceded by, i. 145; payments by, for _Pickwick_ and _Nicholas Nickleby_, i. 145; outline of _Master Humphrey's Clock_ submitted to, i. 192-197; purchase of _Barnaby Rudge_ by, i. 225; Dickens's earliest and latest publishers, iii. 240.

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

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

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

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

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

Chester, readings at, iii. 268, 313.

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

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

Chigwell, inn at, i. 239.

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

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

_Child's History_, the, finished, iii. 59.

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

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

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

Chimneys, the smoky, i. 221.

Chinese Junk, ii. 405-408.

Chorley (Henry), iii. 256.

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

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

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

_Christmas Sketches_, Dickens's, iii. 370, 371.

Christmas sports, ii. 47 note.

Cicala, the, ii. 118.

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

Circumlocution Office, the, iii. 159.

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

Clennam (Mrs.), in _Little Dorrit_, original of, iii. 277.

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

Coachman, a Paris, ii. 332 note.

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

Cockburn (Sir Alexander), iii. 126.

Coffee-shops frequented by Dickens, i. 56.

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

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

Col de Balme Pass, ii. 253.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Colquhoun (Mr.), i. 258.

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

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

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

Conjuror, a French, iii. 110-115.

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

Conversion, a wonderful, ii. 180 note.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Crawford (Sir George), ii. 172.

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

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

Cruikshank (George), illustrations by, to _Sketches_, i. 113; claim by, to the origination of _Oliver Twist_, i. 154-156,