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a small patient at, iii. 194; _Carol_ reading for, iii. 200.

Hotels American, i. 304, iii. 390, 395, 412, 435; extortion at, i. 331, 344.

Houghton (Lord), ii. 472, iii. 509, 538.

_Household Words_ in contemplation, ii. 449-453; title selected for, ii. 454; names proposed for, ii. 453; first number of, ii. 454; early contributors to, ii. 454; Mrs. Gaskell's story in, iii. 54; unwise printed statement in, iii. 200; discontinued, iii. 239 (and see 37).

Hudson (George), glimpse of, in exile, iii. 274.

Hugo (Victor), an evening with, ii. 331, 332.

Hulkes (Mr.), iii. 206 note, 256.

Hull, reading at, iii. 232.

Humour, Americans destitute of i. 401; a favourite bit of, ii. 102; the leading quality of Dickens, iii. 341, 342; Lord Lytton on the employment of, by novelists, iii. 350 note; Dickens's enjoyment of his own, iii. 350-352; the true province of, iii. 382.

Hungerford-market, i. 50 (and see iii. 512 note).

Hunt (Holman), iii. 257.

Hunt (Leigh), saying of, i. 119; on _Nicholas Nickleby_, i. 169; Civil-list pension given to, ii. 369; theatrical benefit for, ii. 369-373; result of performances, ii. 373; last glimpse of, iii. 26 note; letter of Dickens to, in self-defence, iii. 28; the original of Harold Skimpole in _Bleak House_, iii. 26-29; inauguration of bust of, at Kensal-green, iii. 487.

_Hunted Down_, high price paid for, iii. 253; original of, iii. 279.

IMAGINATIVE life, tenure of, iii. 187.

Improprieties of speech, ii. 269.

Incurable Hospital, patients in the, iii. 287.

Inimitable, as applied to Dickens, origin of the term, i. 33.

Inn, a log-house, i. 400.

Innkeeper, a model, i. 365.

Inns, American, Miss Martineau on, i. 344 (and see 366 note, 393, 395, 400, iii. 432); Highland, i. 265, 267, 275; Italian, ii. 158, 170, 171, 181.

International boat-race dinner, Dickens at, iii. 527.

Ireland, a timely word on, ii. 260.

Irving (Washington), i. 287, 315, 330, 351, 352, 357 note; letter from Dickens to, i. 284; a bad public speaker, i. 320-322; at Literary Fund dinner in London, i. 321; at Richmond (U. S.), i. 351.

Italians hard at work, ii. 197.

Italy, art and pictures in, ii. 167-169, iii. 91, 92; private galleries in, ii. 168 note; cruelty to brutes in, ii. 187 note; wayside memorials in, ii. 188, 189 note; best season in, ii. 191; fire-flies in, ii. 195; Dickens's trip to, iii. 76-95; the noblest men of, in exile, iii. 93.

JACK STRAW'S-CASTLE (Hampstead-heath), i. 133, 299, 346, ii. 101, 117.

Jackson (Sir Richard), i. 413.

Jeffrey (Lord), i. 260; praise of Little Nell by, i. 251; presides at Edinburgh dinner to Dickens, i. 252; on the _American Notes_, ii. 38; praise by, of the _Carol_, ii. 88; on the _Chimes_, ii. 179; his opinion of the _Battle of Life_, ii. 303, 304; forecaste of _Dombey_ by, ii. 358 note; on Paul's death, ii. 361 note; on the character of Edith in Dombey, ii. 362-364; James Sheridan Knowles and, ii. 392; touching letter from, ii. 428; death of, ii. 483.

Jerrold (Douglas), ii. 136, 162, 175, 200; at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 209, 210; fancy sketch of, ii. 282, iii. 63 note; last meeting with Dickens, iii. 167; death of, iii. 168; proposed memorial tribute to, and result, iii. 168.

Jesuits at Geneva, rising against the, ii. 297-301 (and see 179-180).

Johnson (President), interview of Dickens with, iii. 423; impeachment of, iii. 429.

Johnson (Reverdy), at Glasgow art-dinner, iii. 453 note.

Jonson (Ben), an experience of, ii. 352.

Jowett (Dr.), on Dickens, iii. 525, 526.

KARR (ALPHONSE), ii. 331.

Keeley (Mrs.), ii. 475; in _Nicholas Nickleby_, i. 175, ii. 96.

Kelly (Fanny), theatre of, in Dean-street, Soho, ii. 208-214; whims and fancies of, ii. 209.

Kemble (Charles) and his daughters, ii. 473.

Kemble (John), ii. 473.

Kensal-green, Mary Hogarth's tomb at, i. 120 note, ii. 458 note.

Kent (Charles), _Charles Dickens as a Reader_ by, iii. 235 note; letter to, iii. 541.

_Kissing the Rod_ (Edmund Yates'), iii. 495.

Knebworth, private performances at, ii. 396, 397; Dickens at, iii. 245, 246.

Knight (Charles), ii. 475.

Knowles (James Sheridan), bankruptcy of, ii. 392; civil-list pension granted to, ii. 393; performances in aid of, ii. 394, 395.

LADIES, American, i. 327; eccentric, ii. 291-293.

Laing (Mr.), of Hatton Garden, iii. 25.

Lamartine (A., de), ii. 331, iii. 135.

Lameness, strange remedy for, i. 22.

Lamert (James), private theatricals got up by, i. 31; takes young Dickens to the theatre, i. 32; employs Dickens at the blacking-warehouse, i. 51; quarrel of John Dickens with, i. 68 (and see 228).

_Lamplighter_, Dickens's farce of the, i. 183, ii. 207; turned into a tale for the benefit of Mrs. Macrone, i. 241.

Landor (Walter Savage), Dickens's visit to, at Bath, i. 200; mystification of, i. 218; villa at Fiesole, ii. 189, 190 (and see 486 note); the original of Boythorn in _Bleak House_, iii. 26; a fancy respecting, iii. 451; Forster's _Life_ of, ii. 189 note, iii. 528.

Landport (Portsea), birth of Dickens at, i. 21.

Landseer (Charles), ii. 475.

Landseer (Edwin), i. 181, ii. 162, 470, 475, iii. 63 note, 126; and Napoleon III., iii. 147 note (and see iii. 238).

Land's-end, a sunset at, ii. 40.

Lankester (Dr.), ii. 430.

Lant-street, Borough, Dickens's lodgings in, i. 59; the landlord's family reproduced in the Garlands in _Old Curiosity Shop_, i. 60.

Lausanne, Dickens's home at, ii. 225, 226; booksellers' shops at, ii. 227; the town described, ii. 227; view of Rosemont, ii. 229; girl drowned in lake at, ii. 232, 233; theatre at, ii. 233, 234 note; fêtes at, ii. 246, 247, 258, 259; marriage at, ii. 248; revolution at, ii. 259; prison at, ii. 234, 235; Blind Institution at, ii. 236-240, iii. 78; English colony at, ii. 242 note; plague of flies at, ii. 244, 245 note; earthquake at, ii. 283 note; feminine smoking party, ii. 292; the town revisited, iii. 77, 78.

Lawes (Rev. T. B.), club established by, at Rothamsted, iii. 244.

Layard (A. H.), iii. 83; at Gadshill, iii. 510, 523.

Lazy Tour projected, iii. 170 (and see 351).

Lazzaroni, what they really are, ii. 187.

Leech (John) at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 210; grave mistake by, in _Battle of Life_ illustration, ii. 310, 311; fancy sketch of, ii. 381; Dickens's opinion of his _Rising Generation_, ii. 414-418; what he will be remembered for, ii. 417; accident to, at Bonchurch, ii. 435; at Boulogne, iii. 105; death of, iii. 303 (and see 375).

Leeds, reading at, iii. 232.

Leeds Mechanics' Society, Dickens at meeting of the, ii. 390, 391.

_Legends and Lyrics_ (Adelaide Procter's), iii. 495 note.

Legerdemain in perfection, iii. 112-114 (and see 111, 112 note).

Leghorn, Dickens at, iii. 80, 81.

Legislatures, local, i. 365.

Lehmann (Frederic), iii. 218, 256.

Leigh (Percival), ii. 210.

Lemaitre (Frédéric), acting of, iii. 122-124 (and see 521).

Lemon (Mark), ii. 210, 211, 263; fancy sketch of, ii. 382; acting with children, iii. 62; death of, iii. 538.

Lemon (Mrs.), ii. 263.

Leslie (Charles Robert), iii. 126.

Letter-opening at the General Post-Office, ii. 108, 109.

Levees in the United States, i. 313, 347, 365, 373, 386, 398; queer customers at, i. 373; what they are like, i. 398.

Lever (Charles), tale by, in _All the Year Round_, iii. 245.

Lewes (George Henry), Dickens's regard for, ii. 475; critical essay on Dickens, in the _Fortnightly Review_, noticed, iii. 333-339.

Library, a gigantic, ii. 272, 273.

_Life of Christ_, written by Dickens for his children, ii. 241 note.

Life-preservers, i. 376.

_Lighthouse_, Carlyle on Dickens's acting in the, iii. 72.

Lincoln (President), curious story respecting, iii. 422, 423 (and see 508).

Lincoln's-inn-fields, a reading of the _Chimes_ in, ii. 162, 174, 175.

Linda, Dickens's dog, iii. 218, 219; burial-place of, iii. 222.

Liston (Robert), ii. 475.

Literary Fund dinner, i. 321 (and see iii. 488).

Literature, too much "patronage" of, in England, iii. 488.

Littérateur, a fellow, ii. 325.

_Little Dorrit_, fac-simile of plan prepared for first number of,