The family of Charles Dickens were deeply grateful to all in authority who so carried out his wishes. And more especially to Dean Stanley and to the (late) Lady Augusta Stanley, for the tender sympathy shown by them to the mourners on this day, and also on Sunday, the 19th, when the Dean preached his beautiful funeral sermon.
As during his life Charles Dickens's fondness for air, light, and gay colours amounted almost to a passion, so when he lay dead in the home he had so dearly loved, these things were not forgotten.
The pretty room opening into the conservatory (from which he had never been removed since his seizure) was kept bright with the most beautiful of all kinds of flowers, and flooded with the summer sun:
"And nothing stirred in the room. The old, old fashion. The fashion that came in with our first garments, and will last unchanged until our race has run its course, and the wide firmament is rolled up like a scroll. The old, old fashion—death!
"Oh, thank God, all who see it, for that older fashion yet, of immortality!"
INDEX.
Actors, Dickens a friend to poor, ii. [134]
Agassiz, Professor, ii. [226], [309]
Agate, John, ii. [136];
letter to, ii. [154]
"All the Year Round," commencement of, ii. [83];
"The Uncommercial Traveller" in, ii. [107];
Christmas Numbers of: "The Haunted House," ii. [84];
"A Message from the Sea," ii. [108], [137];
"Tom Tiddler's Ground," ii. [136];
"Somebody's Luggage," ii. [171];
"Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings," ii. [187];
"Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy," ii. [209], [210];
"Dr. Marigold's Prescriptions," ii. [224], [239], [246];
"Mugby Junction," ii. [244], [265];
"No Thoroughfare," ii. [268], [300], [327], [332], [334], [338], [350], [356], [361], [362], [384];
and see ii. [386],
and see [Charles Dickens as an Editor]
America, descriptions of Niagara, ii. [372], [377];
the great war in, ii. [142], [143];
feeling between England and, ii. [240];
Dickens's second visit to—the journey, ii. [302]-[306];
Dickens's letters on, ii. [306]-[382];
fires in, ii. [317], [320];
treatment of luggage in, ii. [321];
drinks in, ii. [329], [363];
literary piracy in, ii. [332];
walking-match between Dolby and Osgood in, ii. [346], [352], [353], [360], [361], [364], [366], [377];
changes and improvements in since Dickens's first visit, ii. [348], [374];
the negroes in, ii. [349];
personal descriptions of Dickens in, ii. [369];
travelling in, ii. [375];
and [Readings]
Andersen, Hans Christian, ii. [3]
Anne, Mrs. Dickens's maid, ii. [18], [25], [28], [343]
"Apprentices, The Tour of the Two Idle," ii. [5], [32], [33]
Armatage, Isaac, ii. [391]
Armstrong, the Misses, letter to, ii. [175];
and see ii. [176]
Austin, Henry, ii. [135], [157];
and [Letters]
Austin, Mrs. Henry, ii. [447];
letters to, ii. [154], [180], [384]
Autograph of Dickens
facsimile letters of Dickens written the day before his death, ii. [443]-[445]
Ballantyne, ii. [415]
Bancroft, Mrs., letter to, ii. [441]
Barber, Dickens's gardener, ii. [102]
Barker, Dr. Fordyce, ii. [378], [405]
Baylis, Mr., ii. [170];
letter to, ii. [179]
Beadle, a, in office, ii. [134]
Beard, Frank, ii. [182], [405], [421], [434], [447]
Beecher, Ward, ii. [341]
Belgians, the King of the, ii. [432]
Benzon, Miss Lily, letter to, ii. [258]
Berry, one of Dickens's readings men, ii. [54], [159], [160]
Blackwood, Mr., ii. [165]
Blair, General, ii. [355]
Boucicault, Dion, ii. [260], [261]
Bouncer, Mrs., Miss Dickens's dog, ii. [109], [126], [189], [356]
Bow Street Runners, ii. [178]
Boyle, Captain Cavendish, ii. [407]
Boyle, Miss Mary, ii. [123], [145], [315], [406];
and [Letters]
Broadstairs, Dickens at,ii. [84], [99];
Bromley, Sir Richard, ii. [126]
Brookfield, Mrs., letter to, ii. [249]
Brookfield, The Rev. W., letters to, ii. [199], [200]
Brooks, Shirley, ii. [407];
letters to, ii. [423], [438]
Campbell, Lord, ii.144
Carlisle, the Earl of, letters to, ii. [12], [118], [157]
Carlyle, Thomas, ii. [112]
Cartwright, Samuel, ii. [326];
letter to, ii. [348]
Cattermole, George, ii. [327], [383];
and [Letters]
Cattermole, Mrs., letters to, ii. [383], [385]
Céleste, Madame, ii. [106]
Cerjat, M. de, ii. [406];
and [Letters]
Chambers, Robert, ii. [167], [434]
Chappell, Messrs., ii. [244], [245], [267], [309], [326], [405]
Charities, Dickens's sufferings from public, ii. [47]
Children, stories of, ii. [196], [359], [423]
Childs, Mr., ii. [337], [405]
Chorley, H. F., ii. [338], [350]
Church, Dickens on the, ii. [221];
service on board ship, ii. [348];
Dickens on the Romish, ii. [409], [410]
Circumlocution, Dickens on, ii. [241], [270]
Clarke, John, letter to, ii. [418]
Collins, C. A., ii. [84], [100], [113], [221], [242], [387], [410]
Collins, Wilkie, ii. [33], [84], [108], [170], [268], [292];
and [Letters]
Compton, Mrs., letter to, ii. [22]
Conjuring feats, see ii. [243]
Cooke, T. P., ii. [4];
letter to, ii. [21]
Covent Garden Theatre, a scene at, ii. [133]
Cunningham, Mrs., ii. [423]
Dacres, Sir Sydney, ii. [329]
Dallas, Mrs., letters to, ii. [195], [434]
Dallas, Mr., ii. [235]
Delane, John, ii. [425];
De la Rue, Mr., ii. [210]
Dickens, Charles, visits to Scotland, ii. [39], and see ii. [395];
declines to enter Parliament, ii. [389];
public dinners to, ii. [268], [301], [404], [406], [417], [419], [420];
visits of to America, see [America];
fancy signatures to letters of, ii. [195];
his theatrical performances, see [Theatrical Performances];
effects of work on, ii. [248], [266], [325];
his visits to Paris, see [Paris];
as a stage, manager, ii. [26];
Tavistock House, see [Tavistock House];
as an editor, ii. [127], [217], [262], [286], [292];
his readings, [Readings];
illnesses of, ii. [404], [405], [421], [446];
in America, ii. [338], [341], [347], [353], [355], [360], [365], [373], [377], [380], [381];
Gad's Hill, see [Gad's Hill];
tour of, in the North, ii. [5], [29]-[32];
his kindly criticisms of young writers, ii. [16], [34], [267], [277], for other criticisms see ii. [14], [43], [215], [249];
elected a member of the Birmingham Institute, ii. [34];
religious views of, ii. [82], [202], [221], [394], [403], [444];
visit of, to Cornwall, ii. [108];
at Hanover Terrace, Regent's Park, ii. [135];
visits Lord Lytton at Knebworth, ii. [136];
at Hyde Park Gate South, ii. [170];
at [57], Gloucester Place, Hyde Park, ii. [208];
at Somer's Place, Hyde Park, ii. [224];
in the Staplehurst accident, ii. [224];
at Southwick Place, Hyde Park, ii. [224];
his energy, ii. [291];
one of the secrets of the success of, ii. [357], [392];
the Midland Institute at Birmingham opened by, ii. [406], and see ii. [427];
his last speech, at the Royal Academy dinner, ii. [432];
his interview with the Queen, ii. [432];
attends a levée of the Prince of Wales, ii. [432];
his last illness, ii. [446];
his death, ii. [448];
funeral of, ii. [448], [449];
and [Letters] of
Dickens, Charles, marriage of, ii. [208];
on "All the Year Round," ii. [406], [410], [424];
and see ii. [88], [114], [123], [140], [145], [176], [447];
letters to, ii. [310], [338]
Dickens, Kate, marriage of, ii. [107], [113];
illness of, ii. [266], [271];
and see ii. [39], [75], [77], [84], [221], [410], [436], [446];
letter to, ii. [99]
Dickens, Mamie, accident to, ii. [129];
and see ii. [39], [49], [55], [75], [77], [84], [87], [114], [116], [120], [145], [179], [234], [411], [447], and [Letters]
Dickens, Walter, goes to India, ii. [19], [21];
attached to the 42nd Highlanders, ii. [114], [176];
death of, ii. [208], [212];
and see ii. [4]
Dickens, Frank, letter of, to Dickens, ii. [93];
in India, ii. [208], [212];
and see ii. [114], [131], [140], [177]
Dickens, Alfred, at Wimbledon School, ii. [122];
settles in Australia, ii. [327];
and see ii. [177], [371]
Dickens, Sydney, a naval cadet, ii. [125], [126], [145], [167];
on board H.M.S. Orlando, ii. [169];
and see ii. [114], [118], [122], [177], [202], [236], [260], [296], [430]
Dickens, Henry, entered at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, ii. [327];
wins a scholarship, ii. [424], [430];
and see ii. [177], [190], [254], [255], [329], [371], [389], [395], [406], [410], [447];
letters to, ii. [356], [392], [435], [438]
Dickens, Edward, goes to Australia, ii. [327], [329];
Dickens's love for, ii. [389]-[391];
and see ii. [53], [76], [79], [92], [95], [153], [190], [199];
letter to, ii. [402]
Dickens, Alfred, ii. [199]
Dickens, Mrs. Augustus, ii. [418]
Dickens, John, ii. [240]
Dickens, Mrs. John, ii. [333]
Dickens, Letitia, see [Mrs. Henry Austin]
Dickenson, Captain, ii. [224], [232]
Dilke, C. W., ii. [5];
letter to, ii. [12]
Dillon, C., ii. [42]
Dogs, Dickens's, ii. [50], [96], [101]; ii. [203], [237], [242], [245], [264], [269];
Dolby, George, ii. [245], [252]-[255], [267], [273], [280], [295], [296], [308], [310], [311], [317]-[323], [328], [330], [335], [336], [340], [345]-[347], [352]-[360], [363], [367], [381]
Dufferin, Lord, ii. [419]
Dwarf, the Tartar, ii. [255]
Earthquake, an, in England, ii. [206]
Edinburgh on a Sunday, ii. [395]
"Edwin Drood," ii. [407], [431], [432], [446]
Egg, Augustus, ii. [198]
Eliot, Sir John, Dickens on Forster's life of, ii. [215]
Elliotson, Dr., ii. [99]
Elwin, Rev. W., ii. [136], [151]
Emerson, Mr., ii. [306]
Eytinge, Mr., ii. [405]
"Faust," Gounod's, ii. [191], [193]
Fechter, Charles, ii. [171], [177], [187], [193], [201], [219], [270], [386];
and [Letters]
Felton, Mr., ii. [85]
Ferguson, Sir William, ii. [246], [247]
Féval, Paul, ii. [183], [192]
Fields, Cyrus W., ii. [85], [308], [344], [361], [364], [379], [405]
Fields, Mrs., ii. [306], [308], [319], [344], [361], [364], [367], [379], [405]
Fildes, S. L., ii. [432], [447];
letter to, ii. [435]
Finlay, F. D., ii. [406];
letters to, ii. [297], [389], [408]
Fitzgerald, Mrs., ii. [285]
Fitzgerald, Percy, ii. [187], [397];
and [Letters]
Flunkeydom, scholastic, ii. [68]
Forster, Miss, ii. [327]
Forster, John, ii. [108], [130], [265];
and [Letters]
Freake, Mr. and Mrs., ii. [446]
Frith, W. P., ii. [84], [93], [385], [418];
letter to, ii. [439]
Frost, the great, of 1861, ii. [139]
Funerals, Dickens on state, ii. [385]
Gad's Hill, Dickens takes possession of, ii. [3];
his childish impressions of, ii. [8];
improvements in, ii. [107], [373], [406], [446];
sports at, ii. [205];
cricket club at, ii. [356];
letters concerning, ii. [15], [18], [25], [28], [49], [106], [119], [227]
Ghost, stalking a, ii. [131]
Gibson, M., ii. [121]
Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Milner, ii. [431]
Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., ii. [401]
Gordon, Andrew, ii. [131]
Gordon, Mr. Sheriff, ii. [164]
"Great Expectations," commenced, ii. [108], [136];
letters concerning, ii. [128], [133], [140], [142], [143], [151]
Guild of Literature and Art, see ii. [41]
Harness, Rev. W., ii. [253];
Headland, Mr., ii. [135], [149], [158], [160]
Helps, Sir Arthur, ii. [432]
Henderson, Mrs., letter to, ii.