He was a guest there again in 1861, and on the occasion wrote his autograph in the album of the proprietress, dated “Last day of the year 1861.”
For some reason he does not describe the hotel in the same manner as he does the Swan at Wolverhampton. The latter, he tells us, “has bountiful coal-country notions of firing, snug homely rooms; cheerful windows looking down upon the clusters of snowy umbrellas in the market-place.... Neat, bright-eyed waitresses do the honours of the Swan. The Swan is confident about its soup, is troubled with no distrust concerning codfish, speaks the word of promise in relation to an enormous chine of roast beef.... The Swan is rich in slippers—in those good old flip-flap inn-slippers which nobody can keep on, which knock double knocks on each stair as their wearer comes downstairs, and fly away over the banisters before they have brought him to level ground.”
There are many other hotels and taverns mentioned in this collection of Miscellaneous Papers, but usually only by name, the mere list of which would serve no purpose.
Those already touched upon or dealt with at length in the course of the present volume practically exhaust the subject, from which it will be seen how overwhelmingly attracted Dickens was to every kind of house of refreshment and in every thing relating thereto. The works of no other author of genius provide so much material for such a purpose, and no other writer has treated the subject with so much healthy realism, so much refreshing good nature and humour, or with such expressions of genuine joy.
INDEX
A’Becket, Thomas, [154]
Admiral Nelson, [262]
Albion, Drury Lane, [247]
Alderbury, [110]
Allbut, [170], [179]
Allonby, [228]
Amesbury, [109]
Angel, Doncaster, [237]
— Grantham, [53]
— Islington, [25], [49]
Anglers’ Inn, [214]
Ashley, James, [174]
Baker’s Chop-House, [263]
Baldfaced Stag, [116]
Barnaby Rudge, [72]
Barnard Castle, [59]
Barnet, [22], [131]
Battersea Fields, [241]
Battle of Life, [264]
Bawtry, [55]
Beak Street, [67]
Bedford Hotel, Brighton, [132]
Besant, Sir Walter, [165]
Bevis Marks, [101]
Birmingham, [37], [271]
Bishopsgate Street, [67]
Black Badger, [141]
Black Bull, Holborn, [121]
Blackheath, [149], [205]
Black Lion, Whitechapel, [86], [95]
Bleak House, [169-172]
Blue Boar, Whitechapel, [150]
— Rochester, [188]
Blue Dragon, [105-112]
Blue-eyed Maid Coach, [172], [184]
Blue Lion and Stomach Warmer, [240]
Blunderstone, [144]
Bond Street, [66], [142]
Borough Bridge, [55]
Boot, [90-94]
Bottom Inn, near Petersfield, [65]
Bowes, [62]
Brentford, [29], [212]
Brighton, [132]
— Tipper, [125]
Buck Inn, Yarmouth, [147]
Bull, Rochester, [241]
Bull and Gate, Holborn, [130]
Bull’s Head, [249]
Bunch of Grapes, [192]
Bunyan, John, [36]
Byron, [142], [180]
Camberwell, [189]
Cannon Row, [151]
Canterbury, [152]
— Farmers’ Club, [155]
Carlisle, [62], [228]
Carrock Fell, [228]
Cattermole, George, [78], [94]
Chalk, [182]
Charles V of Germany, [34]
Chertsey, [30], [213]
Cheshire Cheese, [180]
Chesney Wold, [169], [171]
Chichester Rents, [169]
Chigwell, [72]
— Row, [73]
Christmas Carol, [263]
Christmas Stories, [255-264]
Claridge’s Brook Street, [66]
Clarissa Harlowe, [164]
Cleave, Thomas, [93]
Clifford Street, [142]
Clovelly, [261]
Coach and Horses, Isleworth, [28]
— Petersfield, [65]
— Strood, [227]
Coaching, Romance of, [16]
Coketown, [175]
Collins, Wilkie, [19], [227], [261]
Compter, The, [40]
Compter’s Commonwealth, The, [35]
Cooling, [182]
Coventry, [37]
Crispin and Crispianus, [252]
Cromer, [81], [93]
Cromwell, Oliver, [115]
Crooked Billet, Tower St., [96]
Cross Keys, Wood St., [184], [241]
Crown, Golden Square, [67]
Crozier, [227]
David Copperfield, [102], [144-168]
Dedlock Arms, [169]
Defoe, [97]
Denmark Hill, [189]
Denton, [188]
Devil’s Punch Bowl, [63]
Dickens, Charles, Lodge, [88]
— and Inns, [15]
Dickensian, [28]
Doctor Marigold’s Prescriptions, [233]
Dodo, [266]
Dolby, George, [154]
Dolphin’s Head, [251]
Dombey and Son, [132-142]
Doncaster, [55], [237]
Dotheboys Hall, [32-38]
Dover, [178], [252]
Duke’s Head, Yarmouth, [148]
Du Maurier, [164]
Eagle, [242]
Eaton Socon, [52]
Edward I, [154]
Edwin Drood, [217-227]
Eight Bells, Hatfield, [29], [31]
Eton Slocombe, [52]
Euston Road, [93]
Exchequer Coffee-House, [216]
Exeter, [116]
Feathers, Gorleston, [149]
Fellowship-Porters, [202]
Fennor, Wm., [34]
Fielding, Henry, [130]
Field Lane, [25]
FitzGerald, Percy, [30], [248]
Fleet Prison, [174]
Flower Pot, [248]
Folkestone, [208]
— Royal George, [271]
Fountain Hotel, Canterbury, [152]
Ford, Harry, [94]
Forster, John, [23], [73], [162], [182], [210]
Foundling Hospital, [90]
Fox under the Hill, Adelphi, [152]
— Denmark Hill, [189]
Freemasons’ Tavern, [241]
Furnival’s Inn, [217], [225]
Garraway’s, [175]
Garrick [97]
General Theatrical Fund, [70]
George, Amesbury, [109]
— Grantham, [53]
George and Gridiron, [262]
George Hotel, Salisbury, [114]
George Inn, Borough, [175]
— Market Town, [30]
George and New Inn, Greta Bridge, [55]
George Inn, Greta Bridge, [57], [258]
Goat and Boots, [240]
Godalming, [62]
Godwin, Earl, [154]
Golden Cross, [241]
Grantham, [53]
Grapes Inn, [191-201]
Gravel Inn, Petersfield, [66]
Gray’s Inn Coffee-house, [102], [167]
Gray’s Inn Road, [93]
Great Expectations, [182-190], [241]
Great Fire of London, [36], [203]
Great North Road, [23], [26]
Great Winglebury, [240]
Grecian Theatre, [244]
Green Dragon, Alderbury, [110]
Green Man, Leytonstone, [95]
Greenwich, [203]
Gresham Street, [116]
Greta Bridge, [38], [55-60]
Hales, Prof., [165]
Half Moon and Seven Stars, [108]
Hampstead, [161]
Hampton, [28], [213]
Hard Times, [175-177]
Harper, C. G., [14], [65], [216], [254]
Hatfield, [29], [30]
Haunted Man, [134]
Hen and Chickens, Birmingham, [271]
Henley, [214]
Henley-in-Arden, [216]
Henry VIII, [76]
Herne Bay, [156]
Hesket Newmarket, [228]
Highbury, [164]
Hindhead, [63]
Holborn, [122]
The Holly Tree, [20], [50], [258]
Holly Tree Inn, [58], [258]
Hoo, [182]
Holyhead Road, [26]
Horn Tavern, [175]
Horseshoe and Castle, Cooling, [182]
Hounslow, [28]
Household Words, [69], [230]
Hummum’s, Covent Garden, [185]
Hungerford Stairs, [150], [167]
Inns and Railways, [15]
— — Motor Cars, [15], [19]
— — Coaching, [15]
— Dr. Johnson on, [16]
Inn on the Portsmouth Road, [63]
Irving, Washington, [164]
Isleworth, [28]
Islington, [25], [49]
Jack Straw’s Castle, [161]
James Street, [67]
Jerusalem Coffee-House, [175]
Johnson, Dr., [16], [97], [180]
Jolly Sandboys Inn, [104]
Jupp, R. B., [68]
Kemble, [161]
Kenilworth, [135], [140]
Kent, Duchess of, [120]
King Arthur’s Arms, [261]
King James, [119]
King’s Arms, Amesbury, [108]
— Ball’s Pond, [142]
— Lancaster, [229-235]
— Wigton, [236]
King’s Head, Barnard Castle, [59-61]
— Hotel, Dover, [179]
— Chigwell, [73]
Kingsgate Street, [122]
Kingston, [213]
Kitton, [262]
Knightsbridge, [28]
Lad Lane, [116]
Lamb Conduit Fields, [93]
— — Street, [93]
Lancaster, [228]
Lanfranc, Archbishop, [154]
Laurens, Henry, [120]
Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices, [227-238]
Leech, John, [144], [174]
Leamington, [134]
Leighton, Lord, [164]
Lemon, Mark, [144]
Limehouse, [192]
Little Dorrit, [66], [172-175], [185]
Little Helephant, [141]
Little Inn, Canterbury, [155]
— Saffron Hill, [26]
— Tower Hill, [96]
London Coffee House, [172]
London Lyckpenny, The, [33]
London Tavern, Bishopsgate, [67-70]
Long’s Hotel, Bond Street, [141]
Lord Warden, Dover, [179], [252]
Lound, [147]
Lowestoft, [144]
Ludgate Hill, [172]
Lydgate, John, [32]
Lying Awake, [70]
Maclise, Daniel, [162], [210]
Malt Shovel, [177]
Manchester, [175]
Margaret of France, [154]
Martin Chuzzlewit, [105-131]
Maryport, [228]
Master Humphrey’s Clock, [61]
Maypole, Chigwell, [72-88]
Message from the Sea, [261]
Mitre Inn, Chatham, [258]
Mivart’s, Brook Street, [66], [175]
Morning Chronicle, [217]
Mountain, Mrs. S. A., [37]
Mrs. Lirriper’s Lodgings, [31]
Mugby Junction, [262]
Nelson, Lord, [36], [260]
Newark, [54]
Newgate, [33], [40]
New Inn, near R, [266]
Nicholas Nickleby, [32-71], [185], [258]
North Road Cycling Club, [53]
Nutmeg Grater, [264]
Offleys, [245]
Old Bailey, [174], [180]
Old Curiosity Shop, [97], [162], [168]
Old Royal, Birmingham, [272]
Oliver Twist, [22-31]
Orleans, Duke of, [120]
Our Mutual Friend, [46], [191-216]
Park Lane, [66]
Parliament Street, [151]
Parr, J. S., [28]
Pavilion, Folkestone, [19], [268]
Pavilion Hotel, [268]
Peacock, Islington, [49-52]
Peal of Bells, [262]
Peasants’ Revolt, [164]
Pegasus’ Arms, [176]
Pepys, Samuel, [35], [115]
Petersfield, [63]
Peto, Sir Morton, [144]
Phiz, [54], [56], [59], [62], [135], [219], [261]
Piazza Hotel, Covent Garden, [160]
Pickwick Papers, [71]
Plated Article, [266]
Plough, Blunderstone, [146]
Plymouth, [119]
Portsmouth, [62], [63]
Preston, [175]
Princess’s Arms, [134]
Public House, near Grantham, [54]
Punch, [174]
Queen Elizabeth, [76]
Queen’s Head, Hesket New-Market, [235]
— Islington, [25]
Quilp’s favourite tavern, [98]
Rainbow, [245]
Raleigh, Sir Walter, [119]
Reading, [169]
Red House, Battersea, [241]
Red Lion, Barnet, [22], [169]
— Bevis Marks, [99]
— Hampton, [213]
— Henley, [214]
— Parliament Street, [151]
Regent Hotel, Leamington, [135]
Reprinted Pieces, [265]
Retford, [55]
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, [97]
Richard Coeur-de-Lion, [33]
Richard II, [164]
River Rhymer, [201]
Rockingham, [171]
Roman Bath, Strand Lane, [161]
Royal George Hotel, Dover, [179]
Royal Hotel, Leamington, [134]
— Lowestoft, [145]
Rugby, [51], [263]
Russell Street, [97]
St. Albans, [24], [31], [37], [164]
St. Pancras’ Church, [94]
St. Sepulchre’s Church, [32], [40], [41]
Salem House, Blackheath, [149]
Salisbury, [109], [112-120]
Salisbury Arms, Hatfield, [260]
Saracen’s Head, Snow Hill, [32-48]
Scott, [142]
Setting Moon, [266]
Shakespeare, [115], [212]
Shaw, Wm., [62]
Sheridan, [161]
She Stoops to Conquer, [212]
Ship, Allonby, [236]
— Chichester Rents, [169]
— Dover, [179], [253]
— Gravesend, [187]
— Greenwich, [203]
Shorter Street, [81], [96]
Silver Street, [67]
Six Jolly Fellowship-Porters, [191-201]
Sketches by Boz, [186], [239-249]
Slamjam Coffee House, [262]
Smithfield, [40], [43]
Smithson, Charles, [59]
Snow Hill, [32], [38], [39]
Sol’s Arms, [169]
Somebody’s Luggage, [262]
Somerleyton, [144]
Speedy, Peter, [93]
Spitalfields, [28]
Staines, [213]
Stamford, [53]
Stanfield, Clarkson, [162], [210]
Staple Inn, [220]
Star Hotel, Yarmouth, [148]
Sterry, J. Ashby, [201], [206], [216]
Stevenage, [262]
Stilton, [53]
Stow, [129]
Stratford-on-Avon, [135]
Strood, [254]
Stukeley, Sir Lewis, [119]
Sun Inn, Canterbury, [156]
Swan, Hungerford Stairs, [167]
— Stamford Hill, [248]
— Wolverhampton, [271]
Swan with Two Necks, [116]
Swift, Dean, [36]
Tale of Two Cities, [178-182]
Tally Ho! Coach, [37], [51]
Thackeray, W. M., [164], [180], [210]
Thames, [81], [95]
Three Cripples, [19], [26]
Three Jolly Bachelors, [141]
Three Jolly Bargemen, [182]
Three Magpies, Brentford, [212]
Three Pigeons, Brentford, [212]
Tilted Wagon, Strood, [226]
Tom Brown’s Schooldays, [51]
Tom’s Coffee House, Covent Garden, [97]
Tom Jones, [130]
Tom Tiddler’s Ground, [262]
Tower Street, [96]
Trafalgar, Greenwich, [209]
Traveller’s Twopenny, [227]
Tyrrell, T. W., [65]
Uncommercial Traveller, [40], [184], [249-257]
Unicorn, Bowes, [62]
Upper James Street, [67]
Valiant Soldier, [104]
Victoria, Princess, [120]
Village Maid, Lound, [147]
Walton, [213]
Walworth, [189]
Ward, H. Snowden, [110], [114]
Warwick, [135], [140]
Warwick Arms, [266]
Watson, Hon. R. and Mrs., [171]
White Duck, [227]
White Hart, Salisbury, [118]
— Stevenage, [262]
White Horse, Eaton Socon, [52]
White Horse Cellar, [169]
White Lion, Hampton, [214]
White Swan, Hungerford Stairs, [150]
Wigton, [228]
Willing Mind, [147]
Winglebury Arms, [240]
Wolverhampton, [271]
Wood’s Hotel, [217-225]
Yarmouth, [144]
York, [62]
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