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sale of, iii. 159; general design of, iii. 159; weak points in, iii. 160, 161; Von Moltke and, iii. 164; original of Mrs. Clennam in, iii. 277; notions for, iii. 278.

Little Nell, Florence Dombey and, ii. 362; Sara Coleridge on, iii. 345 note.

Liverpool, readings at, iii. 225, 268, 311, 313; Dickens's speech at Mechanics' Institution at, ii. 94, 95; Leigh Hunt's benefit at, ii. 372, 373; public dinner to Dickens, iii. 454, 500, 501.

Loch-earn-head, postal service at, i. 269.

Locock (Dr.), ii. 468.

Lodi, Dickens at, ii. 166-173.

Logan Stone, Stanfield's sketch of, ii. 42.

London, pictures of, in Dickens's books, i. 171; readings in, iii. 223, 235, 258, 269.

Longfellow (Henry Wadsworth), i. 304, 331, iii. 447; among London thieves and tramps, ii. 22 (and see 57); at Gadshill, iii. 216; on Dickens's death, iii. 384.

Longman (Thomas), ii. 469.

Louis Philippe, a glimpse of, ii. 320; dethronement of, ii. 403.

Lovelace (Lord), ii. 468.

Lowther, Mr. (chargé d'affaires at Naples), difficulty in finding house of, iii. 83-85.

Lytton (Lord), ii. 188 (and see iii. 246); prologue written by, for Ben Jonson's play, ii. 372, 373 note; Dickens's admiration for, ii. 472, 488; his opinion of _Copperfield_, iii. 21, 22; _Strange Story_ contributed to _All the Year Round_, iii. 245; Dickens's reply to remonstrance from, iii. 341, 342; defence by, of humourists, iii. 350 note; suggestion as to close of _Great Expectations_, iii. 369; letter of Dickens to, from Cambridge (U. S.), iii. 402, 403.

Lytton (Robert), iii. 127.

MACKENZIE (Dr. SHELTON) and Cruikshank's illustrations to _Oliver Twist_, i. 155 note; rigmarole by, concerning Dickens and Her Majesty, iii. 503, 504 note.

Maclise (Daniel), i. 261, ii. 160, 175, 200; portrait of Dickens by, i. 178 note; social charm of, i. 180, 181; his apotheosis of Grip, i. 237; his play-scene in _Hamlet_, i. 355; among London tramps, ii. 23; sketches in Cornwall by, ii. 42, 43; letter from, on the Cornwall trip, 42, 43; his "Girl at the Waterfall," ii, 43; paints Mrs. Dickens's portrait, ii. 44; pencil drawing of Charles Dickens, his wife, and her sister,