CONTENTS.
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| Preface | [vii] | |
| I. | Introductory | [1] |
| II. | A Preliminary Tramp in London | [7] |
| III. | Rochester City | [51] |
| IV. | Rochester Castle | [98] |
| V. | Rochester Cathedral | [111] |
| VI. | Richard Watts's Charity, Rochester | [142] |
| VII. | An Afternoon at Gad's Hill Place | [161] |
| VIII. | Charles Dickens and Strood | [211] |
| IX. | Chatham:—St. Mary's Church, Ordnance Terrace, The House on the Brook, The Mitre Hotel, and Fort Pitt. Landport:—Portsea, Hants | [251] |
| X. | Aylesford, Town Malling, and Maidstone | [288] |
| XI. | Broadstairs, Margate, and Canterbury | [317] |
| XII. | Cooling, Cliffe, and Higham | [349] |
| XIII. | Cobham Park and Hall, The Leather Bottle, Shorne, Chalk, and the Dover Road | [376] |
| XIV. | A Final Tramp in Rochester and London | [405] |
| Index | [427] | |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS |
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The Marshes, Cooling | F. G. Kitton (from a Sketch by E. L. Meadows) | [Frontispiece] |
Headpiece, "Humour" (From two Statuettes of "Mr. Pickwick" and "Sam Weller" in Crown Derby Ware) | Engraved by R. Langton | [xvii] |
The Golden Cross | Herbert Railton | [10] |
Young Dickens at the Blacking Warehouse | F. Barnard | [12] |
Fountain Court, Temple | C. A. Vanderhoof | [16] |
Staple Inn, Holborn | " " | [21] |
Barnard's Inn | Herbert Railton | [23] |
Dickens's House, Furnival's Inn | " " | [25] |
No. 48, Doughty Street | J. Grego | [28] |
Tavistock House, Tavistock Square | J. Liddell | [30] |
No. 141, Bayham Street | F. G. Kitton | [37] |
No. 1, Devonshire Terrace | D. Maclise, R.A. | [40] |
Fac-simile of Letter, Charles Dickens | [43] | |
Apotheosis of "Grip" the Raven | D. Maclise, R.A. | [45] |
"My magnificent order at the Public House" | Phiz | [49] |
Bull Inn, Rochester—"good house, nice beds" | Herbert Railton | [56] |
Staircase at "the Bull" | F. G. Kitton | [58] |
The "Elevated Den" in the Ball-room, "Bull Inn" | F. G. Kitton | [61] |
Old Rochester Bridge | Herbert Railton | [68] |
The Guildhall, Rochester | F. G. Kitton | [71] |
The "Moon-faced" Clock in High Street | " " | [72] |
In High Street, Rochester | " " | [73] |
Eastgate House, Rochester | F. G. Kitton | [74] |
Mr. Sapsea's House, Rochester | " " | [76] |
Mr. Sapsea's Father | (After sketch by H. Wickham) | [77] |
Restoration House, Rochester | F. G. Kitton | [79] |
Old Rochester Theatre, Star Hill | W. Hull | [84] |
The Castle from Rochester Bridge | F. G. Kitton | [99] |
The Keep of Rochester Castle | Herbert Railton | [101] |
Interior of Rochester Castle | F. G. Kitton | [105] |
Rochester Castle and the Medway | " " | [109] |
Rochester Cathedral | " " | [112] |
Rochester Cathedral, Interior | " " | [115] |
The Crypt, Rochester Cathedral | Phiz | [118] |
Minor Canon Row, Rochester | F. G. Kitton | [123] |
College Gate (or "Chertsey's" Gate), Rochester | F. G. Kitton | [125] |
Prior's Gate, Rochester | " " | [126] |
Deanery Gate, Rochester | " " | [128] |
The Vines and Restoration House, Rochester | " " | [131] |
Restoration House, as it appeared in Dickens's time | (Engraved from a Drawing by an Amateur) | [133] |
St. Nicholas' Burying-ground | F. G. Kitton | [136] |
Memorial Brass in Rochester Cathedral | [138] | |
The "Six Poor Travellers" | F. G. Kitton | [143] |
Richard Watts's Almshouses, Rochester | " " | [149] |
Fac-similes of Signatures of Charles Dickens and Mark Lemon | [151] | |
The "Six Poor Travellers" from the Rear | F. G. Kitton | [153] |
A Dormitory in the "Six Poor Travellers": Gallery leading to the Dormitories | F. G. Kitton | [154] |
Satis House | (From a Photograph) | [156] |
Watts's Monument in Rochester Cathedral | R. Langton | [157] |
Rochester from Strood Hill | C. Marshall | [162] |
The "Sir John Falstaff" Inn, Gad's Hill | F. G. Kitton | [164] |
Gad's Hill Place | " " | [166] |
"The Empty Chair." Gad's Hill, Ninth of June, 1870 | F. G. Kitton (from the Drawing by S. L. Fildes, R.A.) | [170] |
Counterfeit Book-backs on Study Door | R. Langton | [172] |
Gad's Hill Place from the Rear | J. Liddell | [177] |
"The Grave of Dick, the best of Birds" | F. G. Kitton | [178] |
The Well at Gad's Hill Place | " " | [181] |
The Porch, Gad's Hill Place | J. Liddell | [183] |
The Cedars, Gad's Hill | E. Hull | [185] |
View from the Roof of Dickens's House, Gad's Hill | F. G. Kitton | [189] |
Fac-similes of Gad's Hill Gazette and Final Notice | [199]-[203] | |
Temple Farm, Strood | F. G. Kitton | [213] |
At Temple Farm, Strood | " " | [214] |
Crypt, Temple Farm | " " | [215] |
The "Crispin and Crispianus," Strood | " " | [218] |
Old Quarry House, Strood | " " | [236] |
Frindsbury Church | " " | [239] |
Rochester from Strood Pier | " " | [245] |
St. Mary's Church, Chatham | W. Dadson | [256] |
No. 11, Ordnance Terrace, Chatham | E. Hull | [259] |
The House on the Brook, Chatham | " | [260] |
Giles's School, Chatham | " | [261] |
Mitre Inn, Chatham | " | [263] |
Navy-Pay Office, Chatham | " | [275] |
Fort Pitt, Chatham | Herbert Railton | [277] |
Birthplace of Charles Dickens, Portsea | (From a Photograph) | [281] |
St. Mary's Church, Portsea | R. Langton | [285] |
Aylesford | F. G. Kitton | [289] |
Aylesford Bridge | " " | [291] |
The High Street, Town Malling | Herbert Railton | [293] |
Cob Tree Hall | F. G. Kitton | [297] |
Cricket Ground, Town Malling | " " | [302] |
The Medway at Maidstone | " " | [307] |
Chillington Manor House, Maidstone | " " | [310] |
Kit's Coty House | " " | [312] |
Kit's Coty House and "Blue Bell" | " " | |
| (From the Painting by Gegan) | [315] | |
Hop-picking in Kent | F. G. Kitton | [319] |
"Bleak House," Broadstairs | " " | [328] |
Old Look-out House, Broadstairs | " " | [332] |
The "Falstaff," Westgate, Canterbury | " " | [335] |
The "Dane John" from the City Wall, Canterbury | F. G. Kitton | [337] |
Bell Harry Tower, Canterbury Cathedral | " " | [339] |
Scene of the Martyrdom, Canterbury Cathedral | F. G. Kitton | [341] |
"Bits" of Old Canterbury | C. A. Vanderhoof | [342] |
"The Little Inn," Canterbury | F. G. Kitton | [345] |
Graves of the Comport Family, Cooling Churchyard | F. G. Kitton | [353] |
Cooling Church | C. A. Vanderhoof | [355] |
Gateway, Cooling Castle | F. G. Kitton | [359] |
Cliffe Church | " " | [361] |
Cobham Hall | Herbert Railton | [381] |
Dickens's Châlet, now in Cobham Park | J. Liddell | [384] |
The "Leather Bottle," Cobham | F. G. Kitton | [387] |
The Old Parlour of the "Leather Bottle" | E. Hull | [389] |
Cobham Church | Herbert Railton | [390] |
Shorne Church | F. G. Kitton | [392] |
Curious Old Figure over the Porch, Chalk Church | F. G. Kitton | [394] |
"There's Milestones on the Dover Road" | " " | [400] |
Doorway, Rochester Cathedral | " " | [407] |
Fac-similes of Charles Dickens's Handwriting 1837, 1850, 1854, 1870 | [418]-[20] | |
The Grave in Westminster Abbey | F. G. Kitton | [425] |
Tailpiece, "Pathos" | (From two Plaques of the "Old Man" and "Little Nell" in Wedgwood Ware) | |
| Engraved by R. Langton | [xx] | |