TABLE OF CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I. 1842.
Pages 21-39.
American Notes. Æt. 30.
PAGE
Return from America[21]
Longfellow in England[22]
At Broadstairs[23]
Preparing Notes[23]
Fancy for opening of Chuzzlewit[24]
Attractions at Margate[25]
Being, not always Believing[26]
Burlesque of classic tragedy[26]
A smart man and forged letter[26]
A proposed dedication[27]
Authorship and sea bathing[28]
Easy-living rich and patient poor[28]
Coming to the end[29]
Rejected motto for Notes[30]
Home of the Every Day Book[31]
Scene at a funeral[32]
An introductory chapter suppressed[33]
Chapter first printed[33]-[37]
Jeffrey's opinion of the Notes[38]
Later page anticipated[38]
Experience of America in 1868[38]

CHAPTER II. 1843.
Pages 40-62.
First Year of Martin Chuzzlewit. Æt. 31.
A sunset at Land's-end[40]
A holiday described by C. D.[41]
The same described by Maclise[42]
A landscape and a portrait[43]
Names first given to Chuzzlewit[44]
Origin of the novel[45]
Prologue to a play[45]
On a tragedy by Browning[46]
George Eliot's first book[47]
Accompaniments of work[47]
Miss Georgina Hogarth[48]
Three portraits[49]
A public benefactor[50]
Controversy on Notes[50]
Original of Mrs. Gamp[51]
What he will do with her[51]
John Black[53]
Macready and America[53]
Apprehended disservice[54]
Exertions for Elton family[55]
Seaside life in ordinary[55]
Public speeches[56]
Ragged schools and results[57]
Unitarianism[59]
Return to Church of England[59]
Language of his Will[59]
Christmas Carol[60]
Birth of third son[61]
Amusing letter[61]

CHAPTER III. 1843-1844.
Pages 63-92.
Chuzzlewit Disappointments and Christmas Carol. Æt. 31-32.
Falling-off in Chuzzlewit sale[63]
Publishers and authors[64]
Premature fears[65]
Resolve to change his publishers[66]
Proposal to his printers[66]
Desire to travel again[67]
Ways and means[68]
Objections to the scheme[69]
Confidence in himself[70]
Want of confidence in others[70]
Bent on his plan[71]
Turning point of his career[72]
Grounds for course taken[73]
On Martin Chuzzlewit[74]
American portions[75]
The book's special superiority[76]
News from America[76]
American consolations[77]
Why no Pecksniffs in France[78]
Why Tartuffes in England[78]
A favourite scene of Thackeray's[79]
Process of creation in a novel[80]
Intended motto for story[81]
Leading characters[82]
A superb masterpiece[83]
Triumph of humorous art[84]
Publication of Christmas Carol[84]
Unrealized hopes[85]
Results of Carol sale[86]
Renewed negotiations with printers[87]
Agreement with Bradbury and Evans[88]
Letters about the Carol[89]
Spirit of the book[90]
Something better than literature[91]

CHAPTER IV. 1844.
Pages 93-110.
Year of Departure for Italy. Æt. 32.
Gore-house friends[93]
Sensitive for his calling[94]
A troublesome cheque[95]
Education speeches[95]
Sufferings from stage-adaptations[96]
Wrongs from piracy[96]
Proceedings in Chancery[97]
A pirate's plea[97]
Result of Chancery experience[99]
Piracy preferred[99]
Reliefs to work[100]
The tempted and tempter[101]
Favourite bit of humour[102]
Criticized without humour[102]
Taine on Dickens[102]
Macready in New Orleans[103]
Society in England[104]
Writing in the Chronicle[104]
Conference with its new editor[104]
Preparations for departure[105]
In temporary quarters[106]
Begging-letter case[106]
The farewell dinner-party[107]
"Evenings of a Working-man"[108]
Greenwich dinner[109]
J. M. W. Turner and Carlyle[110]

CHAPTER V. 1844.
Pages 111-138.
Idleness at Albaro: Villa Bagnerello. Æt. 32.
The travel to Italy[111]
A bit of character[112]
French thrown away[112]
The Albaro villa[113]
First experiences[114]
Cloudy weather[115]
Sunsets and scenery[116]
Address to Maclise[116]
The Mediterranean[117]
Colours of sky and sea[117]
Warning to Maclise[118]
Perishing frescoes[118]
French Consul at Genoa[119]
Rooms in villa described[120]
Surrounding scenery[121]
Church-ruin on the rocks[121]
Angus Fletcher's sketch[121]
Work in abeyance[122]
Learning Italian[122]
Domestic news[123]
His English servants[123]
English residents[124]
Genoa the superb[125]
Church splendours and tinsel[126]
Theatres[126]
Italian plays[127]
Dumas' Kean[127]
Religious houses[128]
Sunday promenade[128]
Winter residence chosen[129]
A lucky arrival[129]
Dinner at French Consul's[130]
Verses in C. D.'s honour[130]
Others in Prince Joinville's[131]
Rumours of war with England[131]
A Marquis's reception[132]
Flight and tumble[133]
Quiet enjoyments[134]
English visitors and news[135]
Talk with Lord Robertson[135]
A suggestion for Jerrold[136]
Visit of Frederick Dickens[136]
An inn on the Alps[136]
Dangers of sea-bathing[137]
A change beginning[138]

CHAPTER VI. 1844.
Pages 139-162.
Work in Genoa: Palazzo Peschiere. Æt. 32.
Palace of the Fish-ponds[139]
Rooms and frescoes[140]
View over the city[141]
Dancing and praying[142]
Peschiere garden[142]
Trying to write[143]
A difficulty settled[143]
Craving for streets[144]
Design for his book[144]
Governor's levee[144]
Absence of the poet[145]
Subject he is working at[145]
C. D.'s politics[146]
Choice of a hero[147]
Master-passion[147]
Religious sentiment[147]
A dream[148]
Dialogue in a vision[149]
"What is the True religion?"[149]
Fragments of reality in a vision[149]
Trying regions of thought[150]
Reverence for Doctor Arnold[150]
First part of book finished[151]
Anticipation of its close[151]
Differences from published tale[152]
First outline of the Chimes[152]-[156]
Liking for the subject[156]
What the writing cost him[156]
Realities of fictitious sorrow[157]
Wild mountain weather[157]
Banquet at the Whistle[158]
Startling news[158]
Coming to London[159]
Secret of the visit[160]
Eager to try effect of story[160]
Plans a reading at my rooms[160]
The tale finished[161]
Proposed travel[161]
Party for the Reading[162]

CHAPTER VII. 1844.
Pages 163-178.
Italian Travel. Æt. 32.
Cities and people[163]
Venice[164]
Rapture of enjoyment[165]
Aboard the city[165]
What he saw and felt[165]
Solitary thoughts[166]
At Lodi[166]
About paintings and engravings[167]
Titian and Tintoretto[168]
Conventionalities[169]
Monks and painters[169]
The inns[170]
Compensation for discomfort[170]
Brave C of his Pictures[171]
Louis Roche of Avignon[171]
Dinner at the Peschiere[172]
Custom-house officers[173]
At Milan and Strasburg[173]
Passing the Simplon[174]
In London[174]
A Reading in Lincoln's-inn-fields[174]
Persons present[175]
Success of the visit[175]
In Paris with Macready[176]
Origin of our private play[176]
A recognition at Marseilles[177]
Friendly Americans[177]
On board for Genoa[177]
Information for travellers[178]

CHAPTER VIII. 1845.
Pages 179-200.
Last Months in Italy. Æt. 33.
Birthday gift for eldest son[179]
Suspicious "Characters"[180]
Jesuit interferences[180]
Birth of 1845[180]
Travel southward[181]
Carrara and Pisa[181]
A wild journey[182]
Birds of prey[183]
A beggar and his staff[183]
"My lord" loses temper[184]
And has the worst of it[184]
At Rome[184]
The Campagna[185]
Bay of Naples[185]
Filth of Naples and Fondi[186]
The Lazzaroni[186]
False picturesque[187]
Sad English news[187]
True friends in calamity[188]
At Florence[188]
Wayside memorials and Landor's villa[189]
Death of Bobus Smith[190]
At Lord Holland's[190]
Lord Palmerston's brother[190]
Again at the Peschiere[190]
To publish or not?[191]
Thoughts of home[192]
American friends[192]
Deaths among English residents[193]
Scarlet breeches out of place[193]
Angus Fletcher[193]
Complaint of a meek footman[194]
Recalling Lady Holland[194]
A touch of Portsmouth[195]
Plans for meeting[196]
Last letter from Genoa[196]
Closing excitements and troubles[196]
Italians hard at work[197]
Returning by Switzerland[197]
Passage of the St. Gothard[198]
Splendours of Swiss scenery[198]
Dangers of it[199]
What is left behind the Alps[199]
A week in Flanders[200]

CHAPTER IX. 1845-1846.
Pages 201-221.
Again in England. Æt. 33-34.
Old hopes revived[201]
Notions for a periodical[201]
Proposed prospectus[202]
Chances for and against it[203]
Swept away by larger venture[203]
Christmas book of 1845[204]
D'Orsay and the courier[204]
Another passage of Autobiography[204]
More of the story of early years[205]
Wish to try the stage[205]
Applies to manager of Covent Garden[205]
Sister Fanny in the secret[206]
Stage studies and rehearsings[206]
Strange news for Macready[207]
Requisites of author and actor[208]
Play chosen for private performance[209]
Fanny Kelly and her theatre[209]
Every Man in his Humour[209]
The company of actors[210]
Enjoying a character[210]
Troubles of management[210]
First and second performances[211]
Of the acting[211]
C. D. as performer[212]
C. D. as manager[212]
Two human mysteries[213]
The mysteries explained[213]
Training for the stage[213]
At Broadstairs[214]
Ramsgate entertainments[214]
Birth of fourth son[215]
Second raven's death[215]
Intended daily paper[215]
Disturbing engagements[216]
Old ways interrupted[216]
My appeal against the enterprise[217]
Reply and issue[217]
Interruption and renewal[218]
The beginning and the end[218]
Forming new resolve[219]
Back to old scenes[219]
Editorship ceased[219]
Going to Switzerland[220]
A happy saying[221]
Leaves England[221]

CHAPTER X. 1846.
Pages 222-243.
A Home in Switzerland. Æt. 34.
On the Rhine[222]
German readers of Dickens[223]
Travelling Englishmen[223]
A hoaxing-match[224]
House-hunting[224]
Tempted by a mansion[225]
Chooses a cottage[225]
Earliest impressions[226]
Lausanne described[227]
Views from his farm[228]
Under his windows[228]
A sketch of Rosemont[229]
Design as to work[230]
The English colony[231]
Unaccommodating carriage[232]
A death in the lake[232]
Boatman's narrative[233]
The Theatre[233]
The Prison[234]
The Blind Institution[235]
Interesting cases[235]-[240]
Beginning work[240]
First slip of New Novel[241]
Sortes Shandyanæ[242]
The Christmas tale[242]

CHAPTER XI. 1846.
Pages 244-260.
Swiss People and Scenery. Æt. 34.
The mountains and lake[244]
The people and their manners[245]
A country fête[246]
Family sketch[246]
Rifle-shooting[247]
A marriage on the farm[248]
Gunpowder festivities[248]
Bride and mother[248]
First number of Dombey[249]
Christmas book[249]
General idea for new story[250]
Hints for illustration of it[250]
Haldimands and Cerjats[251]
Visit of Henry Hallam[251]
Local news[252]
Sight-seers from England[252]
Trip to Chamounix[253]
Mule-travelling[253]
Mont Blanc range[254]
Mer de Glace[255]
Tête Noire pass[255]
Help in an accident[256]
English, French, and Prussian[256]
Second number of Dombey[257]
Castle of Chillon described[257]
Honour to New Constitution[258]
Political celebration[258]
Malcontents[259]
Good conduct of the people[259]
Protestant and Catholic cantons[260]
A timely word on Ireland[260]

CHAPTER XII. 1846.
Pages 261-276.
Sketches Chiefly Personal. Æt. 34.
Home politics[261]
The Whigs and Peel[261]
Belief in emigration schemes[262]
Mark Lemon[263]
An incident of character[263]
Hood's Tylney Hall[264]
Trait of the Duke of Wellington[264]
Mr. Watson of Rockingham[264]
A recollection of reporting days[265]
Returns to Dombey[265]
Two English travellers[266]
Party among the hills[267]
A Smollett and Fielding hero[268]
Milksop youths[268]
Ogre and Lambs[268]
Sir Joseph and his family[269]
Lord Vernon[270]
Passion for rifle-shooting[270]
A wonderful carriage[270]
The Ladies Taylor[271]
Proposed Reading of first Dombey[272]
A sketch from life[272]
Two sisters and their books[272]
Trip to Great St. Bernard[273]
Ascent of the mountain[274]
The Convent[274]
Scene at the mountain top[274]
Bodies found in the snow[275]
The holy fathers[275]
A tavern all but sign[276]
The monk and Pickwick[276]

CHAPTER XIII. 1846.
Pages 277-294.
Literary Labour at Lausanne. Æt. 34.
A picture completed[277]
Great present want[277]
Daily life[278]
Imaginative needs[278]
Self-judgments[279]
The Now and the Hereafter[279]
Fancies for Christmas books[280]
Second number of Dombey[280]
A personal revelation[281]
Craving for streets[281]
Food for fancy[282]
Second Dombey done[282]
Curious wants of the mind[283]
Success of the Reading[283]
First thought of Public Readings[284]
Two stories in hand[285]
Unexpected difficulties[286]
Work under sensitive conditions[286]
Alarm for Dombey[287]
Doubts and misgivings[287]
Change of scene to be tried[287]
At Genoa[288]
Disquietudes of authorship[288]
Wanting counsel[289]
At the worst[289]
Report of Genoa[290]
A new social experience[290]
Feminine eccentricities[291]
A ladies' dinner[291]
Elephant-quellers[292]
"Like a Manchester cotton mill"[292]
Again at Rosemont[293]
Visit of the Talfourds[293]
Lodging his friends[294]
Intentions and hope[294]

CHAPTER XIV. 1846.
Pages 295-315.
Revolution at Geneva. Christmas Book and Last Days in
Switzerland. Æt. 34.
An arrival of manuscript[295]
A title[295]
Large sale of Dombey[296]
Again at Geneva[296]
Rising against the Jesuits[297]
Back to Lausanne[297]
The fight in Geneva[298]
Rifle against cannon[299]
True objection to Roman-Catholicism[299]
Genevese "aristocracy"[299]
A lesson[300]
Traces left by revolution[300]
Abettors of revolution[301]
Where the shoe pinches[301]
Daily News' changes[302]
My surrender of editorship[302]
Thoughts for the future[303]
Letters about Battle of Life[303]
Jeffrey's opinion[303]
Sketch of story[304]
A difficulty in plot[305]
Old characteristics[305]
His own comments[306]
Reply to criticism[307]
Stanfield illustrations[307]
Doubts of third part[308]
Strengthening the close[308]
Objections invited[309]
Tendency to blank verse[309]
Grave mistake by Leech[310]
How dealt with by C. D.[310]
First impulse[311]
Kindly afterthought[311]
Lord Gobden and free trade[312]
Needs while at work[312]
Pleasures of autumn[313]
Striking tents[314]
Sadness of leave-taking[314]
Travelling to Paris[314]
At Paris[315]

CHAPTER XV. 1846-1847.
Pages 316-333.
Three Months in Paris. Æt. 34-35.
A greeting from Lord Brougham[316]
French Sunday[317]
A house taken[317]
Absurdity of the abode[318]
Its former tenant[319]
Sister Fanny's illness[319]
Opinion of Elliotson[320]
The king of the barricades[320]
Unhealthy symptoms[321]
Incident in the streets[321]
The Parisian population[322]
Americans and French[322]
Unsettlement of plans[323]
Eldest son's education[323]
A true friend[323]
Christmas tale on the stage[323]
An alarming neighbour[325]
Startling blue-devils[326]
Approach to cannibalism[326]
In London[326]
Cheap edition of works[326]
Suppressed dedication[326]
Return to Paris[326]
Begging-letter writers[327]
Friendly services[327]
Imaginary dialogue[328]
A Boulogne reception[328]
Cautions to a traveller[329]
Citizen Dickens[330]
Sight-seeing[330]
At theatres[330]
Visits to famous Frenchmen[331]
Evening with Victor Hugo[331]
Adventure with a coachman[332]
Bibliothèque Royale[333]
Premonitory symptoms[333]
In London[334]
A party at Gore-house[334]
Illness of eldest son[335]
Snuff-shop readings[336]
Old charwoman's compliment[336]

CHAPTER XVI. 1846-1848.
Pages 337-367.
Dombey and Son. Æt. 34-36.
Drift of the tale[337]
Why undervalued[338]
Mistakes of critics[338]
Adherence to first design[338]
Plan for Paul and his sister[339]
For Dombey and his daughter[339]
Proposed course of the story[340]
"The stock of the soup"[340]
Walter Gay and his fate[341]
Decided favourably[341]
Six pages too much[342]
Omissions objected to[342]
New chapter written[343]
Portions sacrificed[343]
Anxiety for the face of his hero[344]
A suggested type of city-gentleman[344]
Artist-fancies for Mr. Dombey[345]-[6]
Dickens and his illustrators[347]
A silly story repeated[347]
Why noticed again[348]
Facsimile of letter to Cruikshank[349]-[50]
Dickens's words at the time[349]
Cruikshank's thirty-four years after[350]
A masterpiece of Dickens's writing[351]
Picture of him at work[352]
An experience of Ben Jonson's[352]
How objections are taken[352]
Shall Paul's life be prolonged?[353]
A Reading of the second number[353]
A number to be added to Paul's life[354]
Failure of an illustration[354]
What it should have been[355]
The Mrs. Pipchin of his childhood[355]
First thought of his Autobiography[356]
Opening his fourth number[356]
At Doctor Blimber's[357]
Paul's school life[357]
Paul and Florence[357]
Jeffrey's forecast of the tale[358]
Beginning his fifth number[359]
What he will do with it[359]
A damper to the spirits[359]
Close of Paul's life[360]
Jeffrey on Paul's death[361]
Thoughts for Edith[362]
Florence and Little Nell[362]
Judgments and comparisons[363]
Edith's first destiny[363]
Doubts suggested[364]
An important change[364]
Diogenes remembered[365]
Other characters[365]
Blimber establishment[366]
Supposed originals[366]
Surmises entirely wrong[367]

CHAPTER XVII. 1847-1852.
Pages 368-402.
Splendid Strolling. Æt. 35-40.
Birth of fifth son[368]
Death of Lieut. Sydney Dickens[368]
Proposed benefit for Leigh Hunt[369]
The plays and actors[370]
The manager[370]
Troubles at rehearsals[371]
Pains rewarded[371]
Leigh Hunt's account[372]
Receipts and expenses[373]
Lord Lytton's prologue[373]
Appearance of Mrs. Gamp[374]
Fancy for a jeu d'esprit[374]
Mrs. Gamp at the play[375]
Failure of artists[375]
An unfinished fancy[375]
Mrs. Gamp with the strollers[376]
Alarm of Mrs. Harris[376]
Leigh Hunt and Poole[377]
Ticklish society[378]
Mrs. Gamp's cabman[378]
George Cruikshank[379]
Mr. Wilson the barber[379]
Wig experiences[380]
Fatigues of a powder ball[380]
Manager's moustache and whiskers[381]
Leech, Lemon, and Jerrold[381]-[2]
Mrs. Gamp's dislike of "Dougladge"[382]
Costello, Stone, and Egg[383]
"Only the engine"[384]
Cruikshank's Bottle[384]
Profits of Dombey[385]
Time come for savings[385]
Proposed edition of old novels[385]
Another dropped design[386]
The Praslin tragedy[386]
Penalty for seeing before others[387]
Street-music[387]
Margate theatre and manager[387]
As to Christmas book[388]
Delay found necessary[389]
A literary Kitely[389]
Meetings at Leeds and Glasgow[390]
Book-friends[391]
Sheriff Alison[391]
Hospitable welcome[391]
Scott-monument[392]
Purchase of Shakespeare's house[392]
Scheme to benefit Knowles[393]
Plays rehearsed[394]
Merry Wives chosen[394]
Performances and result[394]
At Knebworth-park[395]
Guild of Literature and Art[396]
Unfortunate omission[396]
The farce that was to be written[396]
The farce that was substituted[397]
Not so Bad as we Seem[397]
Travelling theatre and scenes[398]
Success of the comedy[398]
An incident at Sunderland[399]
Troubles of a manager[399]
Acting under difficulties[400]
Scenery overturned[401]
Effects of fright[401]
Mr. Wilkie Collins[402]

CHAPTER XVIII. 1848-1851.
Pages 403-441.
Seaside Holidays. Æt. 36-39.
Louis Philippe dethroned[403]
French missive from C. D.[404]
Aspirations of Citizen Dickens[404]
At Broadstairs[405]
By rail to China[405]
The Junk[406]
Mariners on deck and in cabin[406]
Perplexing questions[406]
A toy-shop on the seas[407]
Type of finality[407]
A contrast[408]
Home questions[408]
Temperance agitations[409]
The temptations to gin-shop[409]
Necessity of dealing with them[409]
Stages anterior to drunkenness[410]
Cruikshank's satire[410]
Realities of his pencil[411]
Its one-sidedness[411]
Dickens on Hogarth[412]
Cause as well as effect[412]
Exit of Gin-lane[412]
Wisdom of the great painter[413]
Late, but never too late[413]
Dickens on designs by Leech[414]
Originality of Leech[414]
Superiority of his method[415]
The requisites for it[415]
Excuses for the rising generation[416]
Intellectual juvenility[416]
A dangerous youth[417]
What Leech will be remembered for[417]
Odd adventures[418]
Pony-chaise accident[418]
Parallel to Squeers[419]
Strenuous idleness[419]
French philosophy[420]
Hint for Mr. Taine[420]
The better for idleness[421]
A favourite spot[421]
At Brighton[421]
With mad folks and doctors[422]
A name for his new book[422]
At Broadstairs[422]
Troubles in his writing[423]
A letter in character[423]
At Bonchurch[425]
The Rev. James White[425]
Mirth and melancholy[425]
Mrs. James White[426]
First impressions of Undercliff[426]
Talfourd made a judge[427]
Dickens's affection for him[427]
Church-school examination[428]
Dinners and pic-nics[428]
The comedian Regnier[429]
When acting is genuine[429]
Doubts as to health[429]
Arrivals and departures[430]
A startling revelation[431]
Effects of Bonchurch climate[431]
Utter prostration[431]
Difficulties of existing there[432]
Distrust of doctors[433]
Other side of picture[433]
What I observed at the time[434]
From the Copperfield MS.[434]
Mr. Browne's sketch of Micawber[435]
Accident to John Leech[435]
Its consequences[435]
Depressing influences[436]
At Broadstairs[436]
Railway travellers[437]
The exhibition year[438]
A Copperfield banquet[438]
C. D. on money values[439]
His leisure reading[439]
A correction for Carlyle[440]
Good criticism[441]
Thoughts of a new book[441]
The old restlessness[441]
Beginning on a Friday[441]

CHAPTER XIX. 1848-1850.
Pages 442-456.
Haunted Man and Household Words. Æt. 36-40.
Maturing book for Christmas[442]
Friendly plea for Mr. Macrone[442]
Completion of Christmas story[443]
Dropped motto[443]
The "ghost" and the "bargain"[444]
The Tetterby family[445]
Teachings of the little tale[445]
His own statement of its intention[446]
Forgive that you may forget[446]
Copperfield sales[447]
A letter from Russia[448]
Translation into Russian[448]
Sympathy of Siberia[448]
The Periodical taking form[449]
A design for it described[449]
Original and selected matter[449]
A Shadow for everywhere[450]
Hopes of success[450]
Doubts respecting it[451]
Incompatibility of design[451]
New design chosen[452]
Assistant editor appointed[453]
Titles proposed[453]
Appearance of first number[454]
Earliest contributors[454]
Opinion of Mr. Sala[454]
Child's dream of a star[455]
A fancy derived from childhood[456]

CHAPTER XX. 1848-1851.
Pages 457-494.
Last Years in Devonshire Terrace. Æt. 36-39.
Sentiment about places[457]
Confidences[458]
Personal revelations[458]
Early memories[459]
At his sister's sick-bed[459]
Last thoughts[460]
Sister's death[460]
Book to be written in first person[461]
Riding over Salisbury Plain[461]
Visiting scene of a tragedy[462]
First sees Yarmouth[462]
Birth of sixth son[462]
Notion for a character[463]
Choosing a title[463]
"Mag's Diversions"[464]
"Copperfield" chosen[464]
Varieties of it proposed[465]
Title finally determined[466]
Difficulties of opening[466]
Rogers and Benedict[466]
Wit of Fonblanque[467]
Procter and Macready[467]
The Sheridans[468]
Lord Byron's Ada[469]
Dinner to Halévy and Scribe[469]
Brougham and "the Punch people"[469]
The Duke at Vauxhall[470]
Carlyle and Thackeray[470]
Judicious change of a "tag"[471]
A fact for a biographer[471]
Marryat's delight with children[472]
Bulwer Lytton and Monckton Milnes[472]
Lords Nugent and Dudley Stuart[472]-[3]
Kemble, Harness, and Dyce[473]
Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble[473]
Comparison and good distinction[474]
Mazzini and Edinburgh friends[474]
Artist-acquaintance[475]
Visitors at his house[475]
Friends from America[476]
M. Van de Weyer[476]
Ambition to see into heaven[477]
Literature and art in the city[477]
Doubtful compliment[478]
A hint for London citizens[478]
Letter against public executions[479]
American observer in England[479]
Marvels of English manners[480]
A letter from Rockingham[481]
Private theatricals[481]
Major Bentley and General Boxall[481]-[2]
A family scene[482]
Doing too much[483]
Death of Francis Jeffrey[483]
Progress of work[484]
The child-wife[484]
A run to Paris[484]
Banker or proctor[485]
Doubts as to Dora settled[486]
Of Rogers and Landor[486]
A third daughter born[487]
At Great Malvern[487]
Macready's farewell[488]
Experience of a brother author[488]
The Home at Shepherd's-bush[488]
Father's illness[489]
Death of John Dickens[489]
Tribute by his son[490]
Theatrical-fund dinner[490]
Plea for small actors[491]
Remembering the forgotten[491]
Death of his little daughter[492]
Difficult tasks in life[492]
Dora's grave[493]
Advocating sanitary reform[493]
Lord Shaftesbury[494]
Realities of his books to Dickens[494]