Chapter CXXXI: Appendix: I (1)

THE WRITINGS OF CHARLES DICKENS.

1835.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. (The detached papers collected under this title were in course of publication during this year, in the pages of the _Monthly Magazine_ and the columns of the _Morning_ and the _Evening Chronicle_.) i. 97; 104, 105; 107; 113, 114.

1836.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. Two volumes: Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (Preface dated from Furnival's Inn, February 1836.) John Macrone.

THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. Edited by Boz. With Illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz (Hablot Browne). (Nine numbers published monthly from April to December.) Chapman and Hall.

SUNDAY UNDER THREE HEADS. As it is; as Sabbath Bills would make it; as it might be made. By Timothy Sparks. Illustrated by H. K. B. (Hablot Browne). Dedicated (June 1836) to the Bishop of London. Chapman & Hall. i. 149.

THE STRANGE GENTLEMAN. A Comic Burletta, in two acts. By "Boz." (Performed at the St. James's Theatre, 29th of September 1836, and published with the imprint of 1837.) Chapman & Hall. i. 116.

THE VILLAGE COQUETTES. A Comic Opera, in two acts. By Charles Dickens. The Music by John Hullah. (Dedication to Mr. Braham is dated from Furnival's Inn, 15th of December 1836.) Richard Bentley. i. 116.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Second Series. One volume. (Preface dated from Furnival's Inn, 17th of December 1836.) John Macrone.

1837.

THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB. Edited by Boz. (Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to November. Issued complete in the latter month, with Dedication to Mr. Serjeant Talfourd dated from Doughty-street, 27th of September, as _The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. By Charles Dickens._) Chapman & Hall. i. 108-113; 125-132. iii. 343.

OLIVER TWIST; OR THE PARISH BOY'S PROGRESS. By Boz. Begun in _Bentley's Miscellany_ for January, and continued throughout the year. Richard Bentley.

1838.

OLIVER TWIST. By Charles Dickens, Author of the Pickwick Papers. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Three volumes. (Had appeared in monthly portions, in the numbers of _Bentley's Miscellany_ for 1837 and 1838, with the title of _Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy's Progress_. By Boz. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. The Third Edition, with Preface dated Devonshire-terrace, March 1841, published by Messrs. Chapman & Hall.) Richard Bentley. i. 121; 124-126; 152-164. iii. 24, 25; 343.

MEMOIRS OF JOSEPH GRIMALDI. Edited by "Boz." Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Two volumes. (For Dickens's small share in the composition of this work, his preface to which is dated from Doughty-street, February 1838, see i. 141-143.) Richard Bentley.

SKETCHES OF YOUNG GENTLEMEN. Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall. i. 149.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Phiz (Hablot Browne). (Nine numbers published monthly from April to December.) Chapman & Hall.

1839.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. (Eleven numbers, the last being a double number, published monthly from January to October. Issued complete in the latter month, with dedication to William Charles Macready.) Chapman & Hall. i. 145; 165-179. ii. 99, 100; 102. iii. 344.

SKETCHES BY BOZ. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. With forty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. (The first complete edition, issued in monthly parts uniform with _Pickwick_ and _Nickleby_, from November 1837 to June 1839, with preface dated 15th of May 1839.) Chapman & Hall. i. 121-124.

1840.

SKETCHES OF YOUNG COUPLES; with an urgent Remonstrance to the Gentlemen of England, being Bachelors or Widowers, at the present alarming crisis. By the Author of Sketches of Young Gentlemen. Illustrated by Phiz. Chapman & Hall, i. 149.

1840-1841.

MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cattermole and Hablot Browne. Three volumes. (First and second volume, each 306 pp.; third, 426 pp.) For the account of this work, published in 88 weekly numbers, extending over the greater part of these two years, see i. 191-203; 240; 281, 282. In addition to occasional detached papers and a series of sketches entitled MR. WELLER'S WATCH, occupying altogether about 90 pages of the first volume, 4 pages of the second, and 5 pages of the third, which have not yet appeared in any other collected form, this serial comprised the stories of The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge; each ultimately sold separately in a single volume, from which the pages of the _Clock_ were detached. Chapman and Hall.

I. OLD CURIOSITY SHOP (1840).

Began at p. 37 of vol. i.; resumed at intervals up to the appearance of the ninth chapter; from the ninth chapter at p. 133, continued without interruption to the close of the volume (then issued with dedication to Samuel Rogers and preface from Devonshire-terrace, dated September 1840); resumed in the second volume, and carried on to the close of the tale at p. 223. i. 200-216, iii. 344, 345.

II. BARNABY RUDGE (1841).

Introduced by brief paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 224-8), and carried to end of Chapter XII. in the closing 78 pages of volume ii., which was issued with a preface dated in March 1841. Chapter XIII. began the third volume, and the story closed with its 82nd chapter at p. 420; a closing paper from Master Humphrey (pp. 421--426) then winding up the Clock, of which the concluding volume was published with a preface dated November 1841. i. 134, 135; 147-149; 161-163; 223-225; 232-248.

1841.

THE PIC-NIC PAPERS by Various Hands. Edited by Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank, Phiz, &c. Three volumes. (To this Book, edited for the benefit of Mrs. Macrone, widow of his old publisher, Dickens contributed a preface and the opening story, the _Lamplighter_.) Henry Colburn. i. 124; 183; 240, 241.

1842.

AMERICAN NOTES FOR GENERAL CIRCULATION. By Charles Dickens. Two volumes. Chapman and Hall. ii. 21-39; 50.

1843.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Begun in January, and, up to the close of the year, twelve monthly numbers published). Chapman & Hall.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL IN PROSE. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by John Leech. (Preface dated December 1843.) Chapman & Hall. ii. 60, 61; 71, 72; 84-92.

1844.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight monthly numbers issued; the last being a double number, between January and July; in which latter month the completed work was published, with dedication to Miss Burdett Coutts, and Preface dated 25th of June.) Chapman & Hall. ii. 44-46; 50, 51; 63-65; 74-84; 99-103. iii. 345.

EVENINGS OF A WORKING MAN. By John Overs. With a Preface relative to the Author, by Charles Dickens. (Dedication to Doctor Elliotson, and Preface dated in June.) T. C. Newby. ii. 109, 110.

THE CHIMES: a Goblin Story of some Bells that Rang an Old Year out and a New Year in. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. Chapman & Hall. ii. 143-147; 151-157; 160-162; 174, 175; 179.

1845.

THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. A Fairy Tale of Home. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Edwin Landseer R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedication to Lord Jeffrey dated in December 1845.) Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. 202-204; 215; 445.

1846.

PICTURES FROM ITALY. By Charles Dickens. (Published originally in the _Daily News_ from January to March 1846, with the title of "Travelling Letters written on the Road.") Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. 88; 105; 163-167; 191; 219, 220.

DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON, WHOLESALE, RETAIL, AND FOR EXPORTATION. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Three monthly numbers published, from October to the close of the year.) Bradbury & Evans. (During this year Messrs. Bradbury & Evans published "for the Author," in numbers uniform with the other serials, and afterwards in a single volume, _The Adventures of Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress_. By Charles Dickens. With 24 Illustrations by George Cruikshank. A new Edition, revised and corrected.).

THE BATTLE OF LIFE. A Love Story. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Maclise R.A., Stanfield R.A., Richard Doyle, and John Leech. (Dedicated to his "English Friends in Switzerland.") Bradbury & Evans (for the Author). ii. 230; 241, 242; 279, 280; 284, 285; 286-289; 293-297; 303-311.

1847.

DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY AND SON. (Twelve numbers published monthly during the year.) Bradbury & Evans.

FIRST CHEAP ISSUE OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. An Edition, printed in double columns, and issued in weekly three-halfpenny numbers. The first number, being the first of _Pickwick_, was issued in April 1847; and the volume containing that book, with preface dated September 1847, was published in October. New prefaces were for the most part prefixed to each story, and each volume had a frontispiece. The first series (issued by Messrs. Chapman and Hall, and closing in September 1852) comprised Pickwick, Nickleby, Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge, Chuzzlewit, Oliver Twist, American Notes, Sketches by Boz, and Christmas Books. The second (issued by Messrs. Bradbury & Evans, and closing in 1861) contained Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Little Dorrit. The third, issued by Messrs. Chapman & Hall, has since included Great Expectations (1863), Tale of Two Cities (1864), Hard Times and Pictures from Italy (1865), Uncommercial Traveller (1865), and Our Mutual Friend (1867). Among the Illustrators employed for the Frontispieces were Leslie R.A., Webster R.A., Stanfield R.A., George Cattermole, George Cruikshank, Frank Stone A.R.A., John Leech, Marcus Stone, and Hablot Browne. See ii. 326 and 388.

1848.

DEALINGS WITH THE FIRM OF DOMBEY & SON: WHOLESALE, RETAIL, AND FOR EXPORTATION. (Five numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to April; in which latter month the complete work was published with dedication to Lady Normanby and preface dated Devonshire-terrace, 24th of March.) Bradbury & Evans, ii. 102; 107; 219; 220; 230; 241; 265; 278; 280-282; 334-336; 337-367. iii. 345.

THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST'S BARGAIN. A Fancy for Christmas Time. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Stanfield R.A., John Tenniel, Frank Stone A.R.A., and John Leech. Bradbury & Evans, ii. 280; 388-390; 419; 442-447; 468.

1849.

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Eight parts issued monthly from May to December.) Bradbury & Evans.

1850.

THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF DAVID COPPERFIELD. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to November; in which latter month the completed work was published, with inscription to Mr. and Mrs. Watson of Rockingham, and preface dated October.) Bradbury & Evans. ii. 102; 422, 423; 434, 435; 438; 447; 462-466; 484-487; 494. iii. 21-40; 348, 349.

HOUSEHOLD WORDS. On Saturday the 30th of March in this year the weekly serial of HOUSEHOLD WORDS was begun, and was carried on uninterruptedly to the 28th of May 1859, when, its place having been meanwhile taken by the serial in the same form still existing, HOUSEHOLD WORDS was discontinued. ii. 201-203; 449-456. iii. 239; 490-498.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. CHRISTMAS. To this Dickens contributed A CHRISTMAS TREE.

1851.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. WHAT CHRISTMAS IS. To this Dickens contributed WHAT CHRISTMAS IS AS WE GROW OLDER.

1852.

BLEAK HOUSE. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers, issued monthly, from March to December.) Bradbury & Evans.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS. To this Dickens contributed THE POOR RELATION'S STORY, and THE CHILD'S STORY.

1853.

BLEAK HOUSE. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Ten numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to September, in which latter month, with dedication to his "Companions in the Guild of Literature and Art," and preface dated in August, the completed book was published.) Bradbury & Evans, ii. 342; 441. iii. 25-29; 40-54; 57-59; 345.

A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Charles Dickens. Three vols. With frontispieces from designs by F. W. Topham. Reprinted from _Household Words_, where it appeared between the dates of the 25th of January 1851 and the 10th of December 1853. (It was published first in a complete form with dedication to his own children in 1854.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. 58.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. CHRISTMAS STORIES. To this Dickens contributed THE SCHOOL BOY'S STORY, and NOBODY'S STORY.

1854.

HARD TIMES. FOR THESE TIMES. By Charles Dickens. (This tale appeared in weekly portions in _Household Words_, between the dates of the 1st of April and the 12th of August 1854; in which latter month it was published complete, with inscription to Thomas Carlyle.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. 65-70.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_: THE SEVEN POOR TRAVELLERS. To this Dickens contributed three chapters. I. IN THE OLD CITY OF ROCHESTER; II. THE STORY OF RICHARD DOUBLEDICK; III. THE ROAD. iii. 154.

1855.

LITTLE DORRIT. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. The first number published in December. Bradbury & Evans.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. THE HOLLY-TREE. To this Dickens contributed three branches. I. MYSELF; II. THE BOOTS; III. THE BILL. iii. 154; 415.

1856.

LITTLE DORRIT. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Twelve numbers issued monthly, between January and December.) Bradbury & Evans.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. THE WRECK OF THE GOLDEN MARY. To this Dickens contributed the leading chapter: THE WRECK. iii. 485.

1857.

LITTLE DORRIT. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. (Seven numbers issued monthly, the last being a double number, from January to June, in which latter month the tale was published complete, with preface, and dedication to Clarkson Stanfield.) Bradbury & Evans, iii. 72; 75; 96; 115; 154-164; 276-278.

THE LAZY TOUR OF TWO IDLE APPRENTICES, in _Household Words_ for October. To the first part of these papers Dickens contributed all up to the top of the second column of page 316; to the second part, all up to the white line in the second column of page 340; to the third part, all except the reflections of Mr. Idle (363-5); and the whole of the fourth part. All the rest was by Mr. Wilkie Collins, iii. 170-176; 351.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. THE PERILS OF CERTAIN ENGLISH PRISONERS. To this Dickens contributed the chapters entitled THE ISLAND OF SILVER-STORE, and THE RAFTS ON THE RIVER.

THE FIRST LIBRARY EDITION OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES DICKENS. The first volume, with dedication to John Forster, was issued in December 1857, and the volumes appeared monthly up to the 24th, issued in November 1859. The later books and writings have been added in subsequent volumes, and an addition has also been issued with the illustrations. To the second volume of the Old Curiosity Shop, as issued in this edition, were added 31 "REPRINTED PIECES" taken from Dickens's papers in _Household Words_; which have since appeared also in other collected editions. Chapman & Hall. iii. 236.

AUTHORIZED FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE WORKS OF DICKENS. Translations of Dickens exist in every European language; but the only version of his writings in a foreign tongue authorized by him, or for which he received anything, was undertaken in Paris. Nickleby was the first story published, and to it was prefixed an address from Dickens to the French public dated from Tavistock-house the 17th January 1857. Hachette. iii. 121; 125.

1858.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _Household Words_. A HOUSE TO LET. To this Dickens contributed the chapter entitled "GOING INTO SOCIETY." iii. 250; 260.

1859.

ALL THE YEAR ROUND, the weekly serial which took the place of HOUSEHOLD WORDS. Began on the 30th of April in this year, went on uninterruptedly until Dickens's death, and is continued under the management of his son. iii. 239-254; 462; 490-499.

A TALE OF TWO CITIES. By Charles Dickens. Illustrated by Hablot Browne. This tale was printed in weekly portions in _All the Year Round_, between the dates of the 30th of April and the 26th of November 1859; appearing also concurrently in monthly numbers with illustrations, from June to December; when it was published complete with dedication to Lord John Russell, iii. 243; 279; 353-360.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_. THE HAUNTED HOUSE. To which Dickens contributed two chapters. I. THE MORTALS IN THE HOUSE. II. THE GHOST IN MASTER B'S ROOM. iii. 246.

1860.

HUNTED DOWN. A Story in two Portions. (Written for an American newspaper, and reprinted in the numbers of _All the Year Round_ for the 4th and the 11th of August. iii. 253; 279.)

THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELER. By Charles Dickens. (Seventeen papers, which had appeared under this title between the dates of 28th of January and 13th of October 1860 in _All the Year Round_, were published at the close of the year, in a volume, with preface dated December. A later impression was issued in 1868, as a volume of what was called the Charles Dickens Edition; when eleven fresh papers, written in the interval, were added; and promise was given, in a preface dated December 1868, of the Uncommercial Traveller's intention "to take to the road again before another winter sets in." Between that date and the autumn of 1869, when the last of his detached papers were written, _All the Year Round_ published seven "New Uncommercial Samples" which have not yet been collected. Their title's were, i. Aboard ship (which opened, on the 5th of December 1868, the New Series of _All the Year Round_); ii. A Small Star in the East; iii. A Little Dinner in an Hour; iv. Mr. Barlow; v. On an Amateur Beat; vi. A Fly-Leaf in a Life; vii. A Plea for Total Abstinence. The date of the last was the 5th of June 1869; and on the 24th of July appeared his last piece of writing for the serial he had so long conducted, a paper entitled _Landor's Life_.) iii. 247-252; 528.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_. A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. To which Dickens contributed nearly all the first, and the whole of the second and the last chapter: THE VILLAGE, THE MONEY, and THE RESTITUTION; the two intervening chapters, though also with insertions from his hand, not being his.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS. By Charles Dickens. Begun in _All the Year Round_ on the 1st of December, and continued weekly to the close of that year.

1861.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS. By Charles Dickens. Resumed on the 5th of January and issued in weekly portions, closing on the 3rd of August, when the complete story was published in three volumes and inscribed to Chauncy Hare Townshend. In the following year it was published in a single volume, illustrated by Mr. Marcus Stone. Chapman & Hall. iii. 245; 259; 260 (the words there used "on Great Expectations closing in June 1861" refer to the time when the Writing of it was closed: it did not close in the Publication until August, as above stated); 360-369.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_, TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND. To which Dickens contributed three of the seven chapters. I. PICKING UP SOOT AND CINDERS; II. PICKING UP MISS KIMMEENS; III. PICKING UP THE TINKER. iii. 245.

1862.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_. SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE. To which Dickens contributed four chapters. I. HIS LEAVING IT TILL CALLED FOR; II. HIS BOOTS; III. HIS BROWN-PAPER PARCEL; IV. HIS WONDERFUL END. To the chapter of His Umbrella he also contributed a portion. iii. 351; 370.

1863.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_. MRS. LIRRIPER'S LODGINGS. To which Dickens contributed the first and the last chapter. I. HOW MRS. LIRRIPER CARRIED ON THE BUSINESS; II. HOW THE PARLOURS ADDED A FEW WORDS. iii. 370, 371.

1864.

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. Eight numbers issued monthly between May and December. Chapman & Hall.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_: MRS. LIRRIPER'S LEGACY: to which Dickens contributed the first and the last chapter. I. MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW SHE WENT ON, AND WENT OVER; II. MRS. LIRRIPER RELATES HOW JEMMY TOPPED UP. iii. 371.

1865.

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND. By Charles Dickens. With Illustrations by Marcus Stone. In Two Volumes. (Two more numbers issued in January and February, when the first volume was published, with dedication to Sir James Emerson Tennent. The remaining ten numbers, the last being a double number, were issued between March and November, when the complete work was published in two volumes.) Chapman & Hall. iii. 271; 280, 281; 301.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_. DOCTOR MARIGOLD'S PRESCRIPTIONS. To this Dickens contributed three portions. I. TO BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY. II. TO BE TAKEN FOR LIFE; III. The portion with the title of TO BE TAKEN WITH A GRAIN OF SALT, describing a Trial for Murder, was also his. iii. 379.

1866.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_. MUGBY JUNCTION. To this Dickens contributed four papers. I. BARBOX BROTHERS; II. BARBOX BROTHERS AND CO.; III. MAIN LINE--THE BOY AT MUGBY. IV. NO. I BRANCH LINE--THE SIGNAL-MAN. iii. 379 (where a slight error is made in not treating _Barbox_ and the _Mugby Boy_ as parts of one Christmas piece).

1867.

THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION. This collected edition, which had originated with the American publishing firm of Ticknor and Fields, was issued here between the dates of 1868 and 1870, with dedication to John Forster, beginning with Pickwick in May 1868, and closing with the Child's History in July 1870. The REPRINTED PIECES were with the volume of AMERICAN NOTES, and the PICTURES FROM ITALY closed the volume containing HARD TIMES. Chapman & Hall.

CHRISTMAS NUMBER of _All the Year Round_. NO THOROUGHFARE. To this Dickens contributed, with Mr. Wilkie Collins, in nearly equal portions. With the new series of _All the Year Round_, which began on the 5th of December 1868, Dickens discontinued the issue of Christmas Numbers. iii. 462 note.

1868.

A HOLIDAY ROMANCE. GEORGE SILVERMAN'S EXPLANATION. Written respectively for a Child's Magazine, and for the Atlantic Monthly, published in America by Messrs. Ticknor and Fields. Republished in _All the Year Round_ on the 25th of January and the 1st and 8th of February 1868. iii. 321, 380.

1870.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD. By Charles Dickens, with twelve illustrations by S. L. Fildes. (Meant to have comprised twelve monthly numbers, but prematurely closed by the writer's death in June.) Issued in six monthly numbers, between April and September. Chapman & Hall. iii. 461-477.

II.

THE WILL OF CHARLES DICKENS.

"I, Charles Dickens, of Gadshill Place, Higham in the county of Kent, hereby revoke all my former Wills and Codicils and declare this to be my last Will and Testament. I give the sum of L1000 free of legacy duty to Miss Ellen Lawless Ternan, late of Houghton Place, Ampthill Square, in the county of Middlesex. I GIVE the sum of L19 19 0 to my faithful servant Mrs. Anne Cornelius. I GIVE the sum of L19 19 0 to the daughter and only child of the said Mrs. Anne Cornelius. I GIVE the sum of L19 19 0 to each and every domestic servant, male and female, who shall be in my employment at the time of my decease, and shall have been in my employment for a not less period of time than one year. I GIVE the sum of L1000 free of legacy duty to my daughter Mary Dickens. I also give to my said daughter an annuity of L300 a year, during her life, if she shall so long continue unmarried; such annuity to be considered as accruing from day to day, but to be payable half yearly, the first of such half-yearly payments to be made at the expiration of six months next after my decease. If my said daughter Mary shall marry, such annuity shall cease; and in that case, but in that case only, my said daughter shall share with my other children in the provision hereinafter made for them. I GIVE to my dear sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth the sum of L8000 free of legacy duty. I also give to the said Georgina Hogarth all my personal jewellery not hereinafter mentioned, and all the little familiar objects from my writing-table and my room, and she will know what to do with those things. I ALSO GIVE to the said Georgina Hogarth all my private papers whatsoever and wheresoever, and I leave her my grateful blessing as the best and truest friend man ever had. I GIVE to my eldest son Charles my library of printed books, and my engravings and prints; and I also give to my son Charles the silver salver presented to me at Birmingham, and the silver cup presented to me at Edinburgh, and my shirt studs, shirt pins, and sleeve buttons. AND I BEQUEATH unto my said son Charles and my son Henry Fielding Dickens, the sum of L8000 upon trust to invest the same, and from time to time to vary the investments thereof, and to pay the annual income thereof to my wife during her life, and after her decease the said sum of L8000 and the investments thereof shall be in trust for my children (but subject as to my daughter Mary to the proviso hereinbefore contained) who being a son or sons shall have attained or shall attain the age of twenty-one years or being a daughter or daughters shall have attained or shall attain that age or be previously married, in equal shares if more than one. I GIVE my watch (the gold repeater presented to me at Coventry), and I give the chains and seals and all appendages I have worn with it, to my dear and trusty friend John Forster, of Palace Gate House, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex aforesaid; and I also give to the said John Forster such manuscripts of my published works as may be in my possession at the time of my decease. AND I DEVISE AND BEQUEATH all my real and personal estate (except such as is vested in me as a trustee or mortgagee) unto the said Georgina Hogarth and the said John Forster, their heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns respectively, upon trust that they the said Georgina Hogarth and John Forster, or the survivor of them or the executors or administrators of such survivor, do and shall, at their, his, or her uncontrolled and irresponsible direction, either proceed to an immediate sale or conversion into money of the said real and personal estate (including my copyrights), or defer and postpone any sale or conversion into money, till such time or times as they, he, or she shall think fit, and in the meantime may manage and let the said real and personal estate (including my copyrights), in such manner in all respects as I myself could do, if I were living and acting therein; it being my intention that the trustees or trustee for the time being of this my Will shall have the fullest power over the said real and personal estate which I can give to them, him, or her. AND I DECLARE that, until the said real and personal estate shall be sold and converted into money, the rents and annual income thereof respectively shall be paid and applied to the person or persons in the manner and for the purposes to whom and for which the annual income of the monies to arise from the sale or conversion thereof into money would be payable or applicable under this my Will in case the same were sold or converted into money. AND I DECLARE that my real estate shall for the purposes of this my Will be considered as converted into personalty upon my decease. AND I DECLARE that the said trustees or trustee for the time being, do and shall, with and out of the monies which shall come to their, his, or her hands, under or by virtue of this my Will and the trusts thereof, pay my just debts, funeral and testamentary expenses, and legacies. AND I DECLARE that the said trust funds or so much thereof as shall remain after answering the purposes aforesaid, and the annual income thereof, shall be in trust for all my children (but subject as to my daughter Mary to the proviso hereinbefore contained), who being a son or sons shall have attained or shall attain the age of twenty-one years, and being a daughter or daughters shall have attained or shall attain that age or be previously married, in equal shares if more than one. PROVIDED ALWAYS, that, as regards my copyrights and the produce and profits thereof, my said daughter Mary, notwithstanding the proviso hereinbefore contained with reference to her, shall share with my other children therein whether she be married or not. AND I DEVISE the estates vested in me at my decease as a trustee or mortgagee unto the use of the said Georgina Hogarth and John Forster, their heirs and assigns, upon the trusts and subject to the equities affecting the same respectively. AND I APPOINT the said GEORGINA HOGARTH and JOHN FORSTER executrix and executor of this my Will, and GUARDIANS of the persons of my children during their respective minorities. AND LASTLY, as I have now set down the form of words which my legal advisers assure me are necessary to the plain objects of this my Will, I solemnly enjoin my dear children always to remember how much they owe to the said Georgina Hogarth, and never to be wanting in a grateful and affectionate attachment to her, for they know well that she has been, through all the stages of their growth and progress, their ever useful self-denying and devoted friend. AND I DESIRE here simply to record the fact that my wife, since our separation by consent, has been in the receipt from me of an annual income of L600, while all the great charges of a numerous and expensive family have devolved wholly upon myself. I emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner; that no public announcement be made of the time or place of my burial; that at the utmost not more than three plain mourning coaches be employed; and that those who attend my funeral wear no scarf, cloak, black bow, long hat-band, or other such revolting absurdity. I DIRECT that my name be inscribed in plain English letters on my tomb, without the addition of 'Mr.' or 'Esquire.' I conjure my friends on no account to make me the subject of any monument, memorial, or testimonial whatever. I rest my claims to the remembrance of my country upon my published works, and to the remembrance of my friends upon their experience of me in addition thereto. I commit my soul to the mercy of God through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and I exhort my dear children humbly to try to guide themselves by the teaching of the New Testament in its broad spirit, and to put no faith in any man's narrow construction of its letter here or there. IN WITNESS whereof I the said Charles Dickens, the testator, have to this my last Will and Testament set my hand this 12th day of May in the year of our Lord 1869.

"Signed published and declared by }
the above-named Charles Dickens the }
testator as and for his last Will and Testament }
in the presence of us (present together } CHARLES DICKENS.
at the same time) who in his presence }
at his request and in the presence of }
each other have hereunto subscribed our }
names as witnesses. }

"G. HOLSWORTH,
"26 Wellington Street, Strand.

"HENRY WALKER,
"26 Wellington Street, Strand.

"I, Charles Dickens of Gadshill Place near Rochester in the county of Kent Esquire declare this to be a Codicil to my last Will and Testament which Will bears date the 12th day of May 1869. I GIVE to my son Charles Dickens the younger all my share and interest in the weekly journal called 'All the Year Round,' which is now conducted under Articles of Partnership made between me and William Henry Wills and the said Charles Dickens the younger, and all my share and interest in the stereotypes stock and other effects belonging to the said partnership, he defraying my share of all debts and liabilities of the said partnership which may be outstanding at the time of my decease, and in all other respects I confirm my said Will. IN WITNESS whereof I have hereunto set my hand the 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord 1870.

"Signed and declared by the said }
CHARLES DICKENS, the testator as and }
for a Codicil to his Will in the presence }
of us present at the same time who at } CHARLES DICKENS.
his request in his presence and in the }
presence of each other hereunto subscribe }
our names as witnesses. }

"G. HOLSWORTH,
"26 Wellington Street, Strand.

"HENRY WALKER,
"26 Wellington Street, Strand.

* * * * *

The real and personal estate,--taking the property bequeathed by the last codicil at a valuation of something less than two years' purchase; and of course before payment of the legacies, the (inconsiderable) debts, and the testamentary and other expenses,--amounted, as nearly as may be calculated, to, L93,000.

III.

CORRECTIONS MADE IN THE LATER EDITIONS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

I regret to have had no opportunity until now (May, 1873) of making the corrections which appear in this impression of my second volume. All the early reprints having been called for before the close of 1872, the only change I at that time found possible was amendment of an error at p. 397, as to the date of the first performance at Devonshire House, and of a few others of small importance at pp. 262, 291, 320, 360, 444, and 446.

Premising that additional corrections, also unimportant, are now made at pp. 57, 135, 136, 142, 301, 329, 405, and 483, I proceed to indicate what may seem to require more detailed mention.

P. 50. "Covent-garden" is substituted for
"Drury-lane." The _Chronicle_ atoned for its
present silence by a severe notice of the man's
subsequent appearance at the Haymarket; and of
this I am glad to be reminded by Mr. Gruneisen,
who wrote the criticism.

50. The son of the publican referred to (Mr.
Whelpdale of Streatham), pointing out my error
in not having made the Duke of Brunswick the
defendant, says he was himself a witness in the
case, and has had pride in repeating to his own
children what the Chief Justice said of his
father.

117. The "limpet on the rock" and the "green
boots" refer to a wonderful piece by Turner in
the previous year's Academy, exhibiting a rock
overhanging a magnificent sea, a booted figure
appearing on the rock, and at its feet a blotch
to represent a limpet: the subject being
Napoleon at St. Helena.

168. "Assumption" is substituted for "Transfiguration."

182. Six words are added to the first note.

193, 194. An error in my former statement of
the circumstances of Mr. Fletcher's death,
which I much regret to have made, is now
corrected.

195. The proper names of the ship and her
captain are here given, as the Fantome,
commanded by Sir Frederick (now Vice-Admiral)
Nicolson.

229. A correspondent familiar with Lausanne
informs me that the Castle of Chillon is not
visible from Rosemont, and that Dickens in
these first days must have mistaken some other
object for it. "A long mass of mountain hides
Chillon from view, and it only becomes visible
when you get about six miles from Lausanne on
the Vevay road, when a curve in the road or
lake shows it visible behind the bank of
mountains." The error at p. 257, now corrected,
was mine.

247. "Clinking," the right word, replaces
"drinking."

263. A passage which stood in the early
editions is removed, the portrait which it
referred to having been not that of the lady
mentioned, but of a relative bearing the same
name.

267, 268. I quote a letter to myself from one
of the baronet's family present at the outbreak
goodnaturedly exaggerated in Mr. Cerjat's
account to Dickens. "I well remember the dinner
at Mr. Cerjat's alluded to in one of the
letters from Lausanne in your Life of Dickens.
It was not however our first acquaintance with
the 'distinguished writer,' as he came with his
family to stay at a Pension on the border of
the Lake of Geneva where my father and his
family were then living, and notwithstanding
the gallant captain's 'habit' the families
subsequently became very intimate."

270. Lord Vernon is more correctly described as
the fifth Baron, who succeeded to the title in
1835 and died in 1866 in his 64th year.

283. The distance of Mont Blanc from the
Neuchatel road is now properly given as sixty
not six miles.

341, second line from bottom. Not
"subsequent" but "modified" is the proper word.

398. In mentioning the painters who took an
interest in the Guild scheme I omitted the
distinguished name of Mr. E. M. Ward, R.A., by
whom an admirable design, taken from Defoe's
life, was drawn for the card of membership.

455, 456. In supposing that the Child's Dream
of a Star was not among Dickens's Reprinted
Pieces, I fell into an error, which is here
corrected.

468. I did not mean to imply that Lady Graham
was herself a Sheridan. She was only connected
with the family she so well "represented" by
being the sister of the lady whom Tom Sheridan
married.

* * * * *

The incident at Mr. Hone's funeral quoted at pp. 31-33 from a letter to Mr. Felton written by Dickens shortly after the occurrence (2nd of March, 1843), and published, a year before my volume, in Mr. Field's _Yesterdays with Authors_ (pp. 146-8), has elicited from the "Independent clergyman" referred to a counter statement of the alleged facts, of which I here present an abridgement, omitting nothing that is in any way material. "Though it is thirty years since . . . several who were present survive to this day, and have a distinct recollection of all that occurred. One of these is the writer of this article--another, the Rev. Joshua Harrison. . . . The Independent clergyman never wore bands, and had no Bible under his arm. . . . An account of Mr. Hone had appeared in some of the newspapers, containing an offensive paragraph to the effect that one 'speculation' having failed, Mr. Hone was disposed, and persuaded by the Independent clergyman, to try another, that other being 'to try his powers in the pulpit.' This was felt by the family to be an insult alike to the living and the dead. . . . Mr. Harrison's account is, that the Independent clergyman was observed speaking to Miss Hone about something apparently annoying to both, and that, turning to Mr. Cruikshank, he said 'Have you seen the sketch of Mr. Hone's life in the _Herald_?' Mr. C. replied 'Yes.' 'Don't you think it very discreditable? It is a gross reflection on our poor friend, as if he would use the most sacred things merely for a piece of bread; and it is a libel on me and the denomination I belong to, as if we could be parties to such a proceeding.' Mr. C. said in reply, 'I know something of the article, but what you complain of was not in it originally--it was an addition by another hand.' Mr. C. afterwards stated that he wrote the article, 'but _not_ the offensive paragraph.' The vulgar nonsense put into the mouth of the clergyman by Mr. Dickens was wound up, it is said, by 'Let us pray' . . . but this _cannot_ be true; and for this reason, the conversation with Mr. Cruikshank took place before the domestic service, and that service, according to Nonconformist custom, is always begun by reading an appropriate passage of Scripture. . . . Mr. Dickens says that while they were kneeling at prayer Mr. Cruikshank whispered to him what he relates. Mr. C. denies it; and I believe him. . . . In addition to the improbability, one of the company remembers that Mr. Dickens and Mr. Cruikshank did not sit together, and could not have knelt side by side." The reader must be left to judge between what is said of the incident in the text and these recollections of it after thirty years.

* * * * *

At the close of the corrections to the first volume, prefixed to the second, the intention was expressed to advert at the end of the work to information, not in correction but in illustration of my text, forwarded by obliging correspondents who had been scholars at the Wellington House Academy (i. 74). But inexorable limits of space prevent, for the present, a fulfilment of this intention.

J. F.

PALACE GATE HOUSE, KENSINGTON,
_22nd of January 1874_.

INDEX.

A'BECKETT (GILBERT), at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 210;
death of, iii. 119.

Aberdeen, reading at, iii. 234.

Actors and acting, i. 174, 175, 260, ii. 96, 103, 126-128, 176,
399, 401;
at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 210;
French, iii. 127-134.

Adams (John Quincey), i. 214, 349.

Adelphi theatre, _Carol_ dramatized at the, ii. 96.

Africa, memorials of dead children in, iii. 293.

Agassiz (M.), iii. 389 note.

Agreements, literary, ii. 87, 88, iii. 240.

Ainsworth (Harrison), i. 118, 163, 181.

Alamode beef-house (Johnson's), i. 54.

Albany (U. S.), reading at, iii. 436 (and see 441).

Albaro, Villa Bagnerello at, ii. 113, 120;
the sirocco at, ii. 114;
Angus Fletcher's sketch of the villa, ii. 121;
English servants at, ii. 123;
tradespeople at, ii. 124, 125;
dinner at French consul's, ii. 130-132;
reception at the Marquis di Negri's, ii. 132.

Albert (Prince), i. 322 note;
at Boulogne, iii. 108.

Alison (Dr.), i. 258, 260.

Alison (Sheriff), ii. 391.

_All the Year Round_, titles suggested for, iii. 241-243;
first number of, iii. 244;
success of, iii. 244;
difference between _Household Words_ and, iii. 245;
tales in, by eminent writers, iii. 245;
sale of Christmas numbers of, iii. 246;
Dickens's detached papers in, iii. 247-249, 528;
Charles Collins's papers in, iii. 257;
projected story for, iii. 310, 462;
new series of, iii. 462 note;
change of plan in, iii. 462 note;
Dickens's last paper in, iii. 528.

Allan (Sir William), i. 258, 260; ii. 475.

Allonby (Cumberland), iii. 173;
landlady of inn at, iii. 173.

Allston (Washington), i. 331.

Amateur theatricals, i. 413-417; ii. 481; iii. 62-64.

Ambigu (Paris), _Paradise Lost_ at the, iii. 130, 131.

America, visit to, contemplated by Dickens, i. 195;
wide-spread knowledge of Dickens's writings in, i. 215, 216,
iii. 384-386;
eve of visit to, i. 284-291;
visit to, decided, i. 285;
proposed book about, i. 286;
arrangements for journey, 286;
rough passage to, i. 292-298;
first impressions of, i. 299-309;
hotels in, i. 304, iii. 390, 396, 412, 435;
inns in, i. 344, 366 note, 393, 395, 400, 401, iii. 432;
Dickens's popularity in, i. 307, iii. 388;
second impressions of, i. 310-334;
levees in, i. 312, 347, 365, 373, 386, 397;
outcry against Dickens in, i. 319;
slavery in, i. 327, 352-354, 395, ii. 103;
international copyright agitation in, i. 329, 351, 408, 409;
railway travelling in, i. 336, 368, iii. 398, 405, 435, 436;
trying climate of, i. 347;
"located" Englishmen in, i. 350;
Dickens's dislike of, i. 351;
canal-boat journeys in, i. 358-380;
Dickens's real compliment to, i. 361;
deference paid to ladies in, i. 374;
duelling in, i. 396;
Dickens's opinion of country and people of,
in 1842, i. 350, 351 (and see 401, 402);
in 1868, ii. 38, iii. 413-416;
effect of _Martin Chuzzlewit_ in, ii. 76, 77;
desire in, to hear Dickens read, iii. 319;
Mr. Dolby sent to, iii, 320;
result of Dolby's visit, iii. 322, 323 note;
revisited by Dickens, iii. 387-443;
old and new friends in, iii. 389;
profits of readings in, iii. 392;
Fenianism in, iii. 397;
newspapers in, iii. 400;
planning the readings in, iii. 401;
nothing lasts long in, iii. 401, 429;
work of Dickens's staff in, iii. 410;
the result of 34 readings in, iii. 415;
Dickens's way of life in, iii. 416, 434, 437 note;
value of a vote in, iii. 420;
objection to coloured people in, iii. 420;
female beauty in, iii. 432;
total expenses of reading tour, and profits from readings, iii. 446
(and see 441, 442);
Dickens's departure from, iii. 443;
effect of Dickens's death in, iii. 384.

Americanisms, i. 303, 327, 370, 387, 410, 414, 415.

_American Notes_, choicest passages of, i. 362, 363;
less satisfactory than Dickens's letters, i. 358, 359;
in preparation, ii. 23, 24;
proposed dedication of, ii. 27;
rejected motto for, ii. 30;
suppressed introductory chapter to, ii. 34-37;
Jeffrey's opinion of, ii. 38;
large sale of, 37, 38.

Americans, friendly, ii. 177;
deaths of famous, since 1842, iii. 389 note;
homage to Dickens by, iii. 465 note;
French contrasted with, ii. 322.

Andersen (Hans), iii. 167.

Anniversary, a birthday, i. 113, 150, iii. 308, 508;
a fatal, iii. 304, 376, 384.

Arnold (Dr.), Dickens's reverence for, ii. 150.

Arras (France), a religious Richardson's show at, iii. 273.

Art, conventionalities of, ii. 169;
limitations of, in England, iii. 331;
inferiority of English to French, iii. 146, 147.

Artists' Benevolent Fund dinner, iii. 236.

Ashburton (Lord), i. 329, 387.

Ashley (Lord) and ragged schools, i. 283;
ii. 58, 493, 494.

Astley's, a visit from, iii. 164, 165;
_Mazeppa_ at, iii. 302 note.

_As You Like It_, French version of, iii. 132.
Atlantic, card-playing on the, i. 295, 296.

Auber and Queen Victoria, iii. 135.

Austin (Henry), i. 182;
iii. 244;
secretary to the Sanitary Commission, ii. 385;
death of, iii. 261, 262.

Australia, idea of settling in, entertained by Dickens, iii. 185;
scheme for readings in, iii. 270 note (idea abandoned, iii. 272).

Austrian police, the, iii. 94, 95.

Authors, American, i. 319.

Authorship, disquietudes of, ii. 288, 289.

BABBAGE (CHARLES) ii. 108.

Bagot (Sir Charles), i. 412.

Balloon Club at Twickenham, i. 182 note.

Baltimore (U. S.), women of, iii. 418;
readings at, iii. 418, 419, 427 (and see 441);
white and coloured prisoners in Penitentiary at, iii. 419.

Bancroft (George), i. 305, ii. 467.

Banquets, Emile de Girardin's superb, iii. 139-141.

Bantams, reduced, iii. 251.

Barham (Rev. Mr.), ii. 175, 476.

_Barnaby Rudge_, agreement to write, i. 135 (and see 147, 148,
161-163, 177, 225);
Dickens at work on, i. 186, 232-234, 239-244;
agreement for, transferred to Chapman and Hall, i. 223-226;
the raven in, i. 233-240;
constraints of weekly publication, i. 243;
close of, i. 244;
the story characterised, i. 244-248.

Bartlett (Dr.) on slavery in America, i. 389.

Bath, a fancy about, iii. 451, 452.

Bathing, sea, Dickens's love of, ii. 28, 56, 138.

_Battle of Life_ title suggested for the, ii. 251 (and see 295);
contemplated abandonment of, ii. 289;
writing of, resumed, ii. 293;
finished, ii. 295;
points in the story, 296;
Jeffrey's opinion of the, ii. 303, 304;
sketch of the story, ii. 304, 305;
Dickens's own comments on, ii. 306;
date of the story, 306;
reply to criticism on, ii. 308;
doubts as to third part of, ii. 309;
dedication of, ii. 309;
illustrated by Stanfield and Leech, 310;
grave mistake made by Leech, ii. 311;
dramatized, ii. 323.

Bayham-street, Camden town, Dickens's early life in, i. 30-42.

Beale (Mr.), a proposal from, iii. 196.

Beard (Mr. Carr), ii. 476;
on Dickens's lameness, iii. 455;
readings stopped by, iii. 456;
in constant attendance on Dickens at his last readings, iii. 531
(and see 541).

Beard (Thos.), i. 92. 101, 102, iii. 256.

Beaucourt (M.), described by Dickens, iii. 99-102;
his "Property," iii. 100;
among the Putney market-gardeners, iii. 102;
goodness of, iii. 120 note.

Bedrooms, American, i. 304, 313.

Beecher (Ward), iii. 410;
readings in his church at Brooklyn, iii. 417.

Beer, a dog's fancy for, iii. 217 note.

Beggars, Italian, ii. 183, 184.

Begging-letter writers, i. 228, ii. 106, 107;
in Paris, ii. 327.

Belfast, reading at, iii. 229.

Benedict (Jules), illness of, ii. 466.

Bentley (Mr.), Dickens's early relations with, i. 134, 135, 141,
147, 148, 161, 163, 224, iii. 240;
friendly feeling of Dickens to, in after life, ii 481, iii. 241.

_Bentley's Miscellany_, Dickens editor of, i. 121;
proposal to write _Barnaby Rudge_ in, i. 148;
editorship of, transferred to Mr. Ainsworth, i. 163, 164.

Berwick, Mary (Adelaide Procter), iii. 495

Berwick-on-Tweed, reading at, iii. 266.

Betting-men at Doncaster, iii. 174-176.

Beverley (William), at Wellington-house academy, i. 84.

Birds and low company, iii. 251, 252.

Birmingham, Dickens's promise to read at, iii. 56;
promise fulfilled (first public readings), iii. 59;
another reading at, iii. 311;
Dickens's speeches at Institute at, ii. 94, 95, iii. 527.

Birthday associations, i. 113, 150, iii. 308, 508.

Black (Adam), i. 259.

Black (Charles), ii. 476.

Black (John), i. 100, ii. 104;
early appreciation by, of Dickens, i. 106;
dinner to, ii. 53.

Blacking-warehouse (at Hungerford Stairs), Dickens employed at, i. 50;
described, i. 51 (and see iii. 512 note);
associates of Dickens at, i. 52;
removed to Chandos-street, Covent-garden, i. 67;
Dickens leaves, i. 68;
what became of the business, i. 70.

Blackmore (Edward), Dickens employed as clerk by, i. 87;
his recollections of Dickens, i. 87.

Blackpool, Dickens at, iii. 455.

_Blackwood's Magazine and Little Dorrit_, iii. 163.

Blair (General), iii. 424.

Blanchard (Laman). ii. 162, 175 (and see 187);
a Literary Fund dinner described by, i. 322 note.

_Bleak House_ begun, ii. 441;
originals of Boythorn and Skimpole in, iii. 25-28;
inferior to _Copperfield_, iii. 32;
handling of character in, iii. 40-50;
defects of, iii. 44;
Dean Ramsay on, iii. 47;
originals of Chancery abuses in, iii. 50;
proposed titles for, iii. 52 note;
completion of, iii. 51;
sale of, iii. 53.

Blessington (Lady), lines written for, ii. 52 note (and see 93).

Blind Institution at Lausanne, inmates of, ii. 235, 240, iii. 78.

Bonchurch, Dickens at, ii. 425-436;
effect of climate of, ii. 431-433;
entertainment at, iii. 111, 112 note.

Books, written and unwritten, hints for, iii. 275-297;
suggested titles in Memoranda for new, iii. 293, 294;
a complete list of Dickens's, iii. 547-560.

Booksellers, invitation to, ii. 100 note.

Boots, absurdity of, i. 314.

Boots, a gentlemanly, at Calais, i. 136;
a patriotic Irish, iii. 227.

_Boots at the Holly-tree Inn_, iii. 154;
reading of, at Boston (U. S.), iii. 410.

Bores, American, i. 375, 376, 383, 384, 385.

Boston (U. S.), first visit to, i. 300-309;
enthusiastic reception at, i. 301;
dinner at, i. 312;
changes in, since 1842, iii. 390;
first reading in, iii. 391;
a remembrance of Christmas at, iii. 399;
walking-match at, iii. 427;
audiences at, iii. 429;
last readings at, iii. 440.

_Bottle_ (Cruikshank's), Dickens's opinion of, ii. 384, 411.

Boulogne, an imaginary dialogue at, ii. 328, 329;
Dickens at, iii. 55, 56, 59, 96-120;
the Pier at, iii. 115;
Dickens's liking for, iii. 56;
M. Beaucourt's "Property" at, iii. 97-106, 115-120;
sketch of M. Beaucourt, iii. 99-103;
prices of provisions at, iii. 102 note;
Shakespearian performance at, iii. 103;
pig-market at, iii. 104;
Thackeray at, iii. 105 note;
camp at, iii. 106, 107, 116;
Prince Albert at, iii. 107, 108;
illuminations at, iii. 109;
epidemic at, iii. 119.

_Boulogne Jest Book_, iii. 65 note.

Bouquets, serviceable, iii. 137.

Bourse, victims of the, iii. 142.

Boxall (William), ii. 475, iii. 126.

Boxing-match, a, ii. 224.

Boyle (Mary), ii. 481, iii. 524.

Boys, a list of Christian names of, iii. 294, 295.

Boz, origin of the word, i. 104;
facsimile of autograph signature, i. 276.

Bradbury & Evans (Messrs.), ii. 66, 67, 68, 105, 250;
a suggestion by, ii. 71;
Dickens's agreements with, ii. 88 (and see 289), iii. 56.

Bradford, Dickens asked to read at, iii. 61 note.

Brighton, Dickens's first visit to, i. 138;
other visits, ii. 421, 422, 455;
theatre at, i. 138;
reading at, iii. 263.

_Bride of Lammermoor_ (Scott's), composition of the, iii. 339, 340.

British Museum reading-room, frequented by Dickens, i. 90.

Broadstairs, Dickens at, i. 136, 137, 176, 204, 277-283,
ii. 55, 214 note, 387-389, 405-421, 422-424, 436-441;
_Nickleby_ completed at, i. 176;
Dickens's house at, i. 205;
writing _American Notes_ at, ii. 23;
pony-chaise accident, ii. 418, 419;
smuggling at, ii. 439.

Brobity's (Mr.) snuff-box, iii. 297.

Brooklyn (New York), scene at, iii. 411;
readings in Mr. Ward Beecher's chapel, iii. 417.

Brougham (Lord), in Paris, ii. 316, 317;
the "_Punch_ people" and, ii. 469.

Browne (H. K.) chosen to illustrate _Pickwick_, i. 115;
accompanies Dickens and his wife to Flanders, i. 135;
failure of, in a _Dombey_ illustration, ii. 354, 355
(but see 348, 349);
sketch by, for Micawber, ii. 435;
his sketch of Skimpole, iii. 53.

Browning's (R. B.) _Blot on the 'Scutcheon_, Dickens's opinion of,
ii. 46.

Bruce (Knight), ii. 97.

Brunel (Isambard), ii. 469.

Buckingham Palace, Dickens at, iii. 508.

Buffalo (U. S.), reading at, iii. 432.

Buller (Charles), ii. 53.

Burdett (Sir Francis), advocacy of the poor, i. 250.

Burns festival, Prof. Wilson's speech at the, ii. 136.

Buss (Mr.), _Pickwick_ illustrations by, i. 115.

Byron's (Lord) Ada, ii. 469.

CA IRA, the revolutionary tune of, iii. 129.

Cambridge, reading at, iii. 317.

Cambridge (U. S.) and Boston contrasted, iii. 390;
the Webster murder at, iii. 402, 403.

Camden-town, Dickens with Mrs. Roylance at, i. 55.

Campbell (Lord), i. 322 note;
on the writings of Dickens, iii. 72 and note;
death of, iii. 247 note.

Canada, emigrants in, ii. 28, 29.

Canal-boat journeys in America, i. 358-380;
a day's routine on, i. 366, 367;
disagreeables of, i. 367;
a pretty scene on board, i. 390-392.

Cannibalism, an approach to, ii. 326.

Cannon-row, Westminster, incident at public-house in, i. 63.

Canterbury, reading at, iii. 264.