Palace Gate House, Kensington,
23d December, 1871.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I. 1812-1822.
Pages 21-46.
Childhood. Æt. 1-10.
page
Birth at Landport in Portsea[21]
Family of John Dickens[22]
Powers of observation in children[23]
Two years old[23]
In London, æt. 2-3[23]
In Chatham, æt. 4-9[23]
Vision of boyhood[24]
The queer small child[25]
Mother's teaching[26]
Day-school in Rome Lane[27]
Retrospects of childhood[27]
David Copperfield and Charles Dickens[28]
Access to small but good library[29]
Tragedy-writing[30]
Comic-song singing[31]
Cousin James Lamert[31]
First taken to theatre[32]
At Mr. Giles's school[32]
Encored in the recitations[33]
Boyish recollections[33]
Birthplace of his fancy[35]
Last night in Chatham[35]
In London[36]
First impressions[36]
Bayham Street, Camden-town[36]
Faculty of early observation[37]
His description of his father[38]
Small theatre made for him[38]
Sister Fanny at Royal Academy of Music[39]
Walks about London[39]
Biography and autobiography[40]
At his godfather's and his uncle's[41]
First efforts at description[42]
"Res Angusta Domi"[42]
Mother exerting herself[43]
Father in the Marshalsea[43]
Visit to the prison[44]
Captain Porter[44]
Old friends disposed of[45]
At the pawnbroker's[46]

CHAPTER II. 1822-1824.
Pages 47-70.
Hard Experiences in Boyhood. Æt. 10-12.
Mr. Dilke's half-crown[48]
Story of boyhood told[48]
D. C. and C. D.[48]
Enterprise of the cousins Lamert[49]
First employment in life[51]
Blacking-warehouse[51]
A poor little drudge[52]
Bob Fagin and Poll Green[52]
"Facilis Descensus"[52]
Crushed hopes[53]
The home in Gower Street[53]
Regaling alamode[54]
Home broken up[54]
At Mrs. Roylance's in Camden-town[55]
Sundays in prison[55]
Pudding-shops and coffee-shops[56]
What was and might have been[57]
Thomas and Harry[58]
A lodging in Lant Street[59]
Meals in the Marshalsea[59]
C. D. and the Marchioness[60]
Originals of Garland family[60]
Adventure with Bob Fagin[61]
Saturday-night shows[61]
Appraised officially[62]
Publican and wife at Cannon Row[63]
Marshalsea incident in Copperfield[64]
Incident as it occurred[65]
Materials for Pickwick[66]
Sister Fanny's musical prize[66]
From Hungerford Stairs to Chandos Street[67]
Father's quarrel with James Lamert[68]
Quits the warehouse[68]
Bitter associations of servitude[69]
What became of the blacking business[70]

CHAPTER III. 1824-1830.
Pages 71-95.
School-Days and Start In Life. Æt. 12-18.
Outcome of boyish trials[71]
Disadvantage in later years[72]
Advantages[73]
Next move in life[74]
Wellington House Academy[74]
Revisited and described[75]
Letter from a schoolfellow[76]
C. D.'s recollections of school[77]
Schoolfellow's recollections of C. D.[77]
Fac-simile of schoolboy letter[79]
Daniel Tobin[81]
Another schoolfellow's recollections[82]
Writing tales and getting up plays[83]
Master Beverley scene-painter[84]
Street-acting[84]
The schoolfellows after forty years[85]
Smallness of the world[86]
In attorneys' offices[87]
At minor theatres[88]
The father on the son's education[89]
Studying short-hand[90]
In British Museum reading-room[90]
Preparing for the gallery[91]
D. C. for C. D.[91]
A real Dora in 1829[92]
The same Dora in 1855[93]
Dora changed into Flora[94]
Ashes of youth and hope[95]

CHAPTER IV. 1831-1835.
Pages 96-106.
Reporters' Gallery and Newspaper Literature.
Æt. 19-23.
Reporting for True Sun[96]
First seen by me[97]
Reporting for Mirror and Chronicle[97]
First published piece[97]
Discipline and experiences of reporting[98]
Life as a reporter[99]
John Black[100]
Mr. Thomas Beard[101]
A letter to his editor[102]
Incident of reporting days[102]
The same more correctly told[103]
Origin of "Boz"[104]
Captain Holland[104]
Mr. George Hogarth[105]
Sketches in Evening Chronicle[105]
C. D.'s first hearty appreciator[106]

CHAPTER V. 1836.
Pages 107-115.
First Book, and Origin of Pickwick. Æt. 24.
Sketches by Boz[107]
Fancy-piece by N. P. Willis: a poor English author[107]
Start of Pickwick[108]
Marriage to Miss Hogarth[108]
First connection with Chapman & Hall[109]
Mr. Seymour's part in Pickwick[109]
Letters relating thereto[110]
C. D.'s own account[110]
False claims refuted[111]
Pickwick's original, his figure and his name[112]
First sprightly runnings of genius[113]
The Sketches characterized[114]
Mr. Seymour's death[115]
New illustrator chosen[115]
Mr. Hablot K. Browne[115]
C. D. leaves the gallery[116]
Strange Gentleman and Village Coquettes[116]

CHAPTER VI. 1837.
Pages 117-140.
Writing the Pickwick Papers. Æt. 25.
First letter from him[117]
As he was thirty-five years ago[118]
Mrs. Carlyle and Leigh Hunt[119]
Birth of eldest son[119]
From Furnival's Inn to Doughty Street[119]
A long-remembered sorrow[120]
I visit him[120]
Hasty compacts with publishers[121]
Self-sold into quasi-bondage[121]
Agreements for editorship and writing[121]
Mr. Macrone's scheme to reissue Sketches[122]
Attempts to prevent it[123]
Exorbitant demand[123]
Impatience of suspense[123]
Purchase advised[124]
Oliver Twist[125]
Characters real to himself[125]
Sense of responsibility for his writings[126]
Criticism that satisfied him[126]
Help given with his proofs[126]
Writing Pickwick, Nos. 14 and 15[127]
Scenes in a debtors' prison[128]
A recollection of Smollett[128]
Reception of Pickwick[129]
A popular rage[129]
Mr. Carlyle's "dreadful" story[130]
Secrets of success[130]
Pickwick inferior to later books[131]
Exception for Sam Weller and Mr. Pickwick[131]
Personal habits of C. D.[132]
Reliefs after writing[133]
Natural discontents[134]
The early agreements[134]
Tale to follow Oliver Twist[135]
Compromise with Mr. Bentley[135]
Trip to Flanders[135]
First visit to Broadstairs[136]
Piracies of Pickwick[137]
A sufferer from agreements[138]
First visit to Brighton[138]
What he is doing with Oliver Twist[139]
Reading De Foe[139]
"No Thoroughfare"[139]
Proposed help to Macready[140]

CHAPTER VII. 1837-1838.
Pages 141-151.
Between Pickwick and Nickleby. Æt. 25-26.
Edits Life of Grimaldi[141]
His own opinion of it[142]
An objection answered[142]
His recollections of 1823[142]
Completion of Pickwick[143]
A purpose long entertained[144]
Relations with Chapman & Hall[144]
Payments made for Pickwick[145]
Agreement for Nicholas Nickleby[145]
Oliver Twist characterized[146]
Reasons for acceptance with every class[146]
Nightmare of an agreement[147]
Letter to Mr. Bentley[147]
Proposal as to Barnaby Rudge[148]
Result of it[148]
Birth of eldest daughter[149]
Young Gentlemen and Young Couples[149]
First number of Nicholas Nickleby[150]
2d of April, 1838[150]

CHAPTER VIII. 1838.
Pages 152-164.
Oliver Twist. Æt. 26.
Interest in characters at close of Oliver[152]
Writing of the last chapter[153]
Cruikshank illustrations[154]
Etchings for last volume[154]
How executed[154]
Slander respecting them exposed[155]
Falsehood ascribed to the artist[155]
Reputation of the new tale[156]
Its workmanship[157]
Social evils passed away[157]
Living only in what destroyed them[157]
Chief design of the story[158]
Its principal figures[158]
Comedy and tragedy of crime[159]
Reply to attacks[160]
Le Sage, Gay, and Fielding[160]
Likeness to them[161]
Again the shadow of Barnaby[161]
Appeal to Mr. Bentley for delay[161]
A very old story[162]
"Sic vos non vobis"[162]
Barnaby given up by Mr. Bentley[163]
Resignation of Miscellany[163]
Parent parting from child[164]

CHAPTER IX. 1838-1839.
Pages 165-179.
Nicholas Nickleby.
Æt. 26-27.
Doubts of success dispelled[165]
Realities of English life[166]
Characters self-revealed[167]
Miss Bates and Mrs. Nickleby[167]
Smike and Dotheboys[167]
A favorite type of humanity[168]
Sydney Smith and Newman Noggs[168]
Kindliness and breadth of humor[169]
Goldsmith and Smollett[169]
Early and later books[170]
Biographical not critical[171]
Characteristics[171]
Materials for the book[171]
Birthday letter[172]
A difficulty at starting[172]
Never in advance with Nickleby[173]
Always with later books[173]
Enjoying a play[174]
At the Adelphi[174]
Writing Mrs. Nickleby's love-scene[175]
Sydney Smith vanquished[175]
Winding up the story[176]
Parting from creatures of his fancy[177]
The Nickleby dinner[178]
Persons present[178]
The Maclise portrait[178]

CHAPTER X. 1838-1839.
Pages 180-190.
During and After Nickleby. Æt. 26-27.
The Cottage at Twickenham[180]
Daniel Maclise[180]
Ainsworth and other friends[181]
Mr. Stanley of Alderley[182]
Petersham cottage[182]
Childish enjoyments[182]
Writes a farce for Covent Garden[183]
Entered at the Middle Temple[183]
We see Wainewright in Newgate[184]
Oliver Twist and the Quarterly[184]
Hood's Up the Rhine[185]
Shakspeare Society[185]
Birth of second daughter[186]
House-hunting[186]
Barnaby at his tenth page[186]
Letter from Exeter[187]
A landlady and her friends[187]
A home for his father and mother[188]
Autobiographical[189]
Visit to an upholsterer[189]
Visit from the same[190]

CHAPTER XI. 1839.
Pages 191-199.
New Literary Project. Æt. 27-28.
Thoughts for the future[191]
Doubts of old serial form[192]
Suggestion for his publishers[192]
My mediation with them[193]
Proposed weekly publication[193]
Design of it[193]
Old favorites to be revived[194]
Subjects to be dealt with[194]
Chapters on Chambers[194]
Gog and Magog Relaxations[194]
Savage Chronicles[195]
Others as well as himself to write[195]
Travels to Ireland and America in view[195]
Stipulation as to property and payments[196]
Great hopes of success[197]
Assent of his publishers[197]
No planned story[197]
Terms of agreement[197]
Notion for his hero[198]
A name hit upon[199]
Sanguine of the issue[199]

CHAPTER XII. 1840-1841.
Pages 200-216.
The Old Curiosity Shop. Æt. 28-29.
Visit to Walter Landor[200]
First thought of Little Nell[200]
Hopeful of Master Humphrey[201]
A title for the child-story[202]
First sale of Master Humphrey's Clock[202]
Its original plan abandoned[203]
Reasons for this[203]
To be limited to one story[203]
Disadvantages of weekly publication[204]
A favorite description[204]
In Bevis Marks for Sampson Brass[205]
At Lawn House, Broadstairs[205]
Dedication of his first volume to Rogers[205]
Chapters 43-45[206]
Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness[207]
Masterpiece of kindly fun[207]
Closing of the tale[208]
Effect upon the writer[208]
Making-believe very much[209]
The end approaching[209]
The realities of fiction[209]
Death of Little Nell[210]
My share in the close[211]
A suggestion adopted by him[211]
Success of the story[211]
Useful lessons[212]
Its mode of construction[213]
Character and characteristics[213]
The art of it[213]
A recent tribute[214]
Harte's "Dickens in Camp"[215]

CHAPTER XIII. 1840.
Pages 217-231.
Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs. Æt. 28.
A good saying[217]
Landor mystified[218]
The mirthful side of Dickens[218]
Extravagant flights[218]
Humorous despair[219]
Riding exercise[220]
First of the ravens[220]
The groom Topping[220]
The smoky chimneys[221]
Juryman at an inquest[222]
Practical humanity[222]
Publication of Clock's first number[222]
Transfer of Barnaby settled[223]
A true prediction[224]
Revisiting old scenes[224]
C. D. to Chapman & Hall[224]
Terms of sale of Barnaby[225]
A gift to a friend[226]
Final escape from bondage[226]
Published libels about him[227]
Said to be demented[227]
To be insane and turned Catholic[228]
Begging letter-writers[228]
A donkey asked for[228]
Mr. Kindheart[229]
Friendly meetings[229]
Social talk[229]
Reconciling friends[230]
Hint for judging men[230]

CHAPTER XIV. 1841.
Pages 232-248.
Barnaby Rudge. Æt. 29.
Advantage in beginning Barnaby[232]
Birth of fourth child and second son[233]
The Raven[233]
A loss in the family[234]
Grip's death[235]
C. D. describes his illness[235]
Family mourners[236]
Apotheosis by Maclise[237]
Grip the second[239]
The inn at Chigwell[239]
A Clock Dinner[240]
Lord Jeffrey in London[240]
The Lamplighter[240]
The Pic Nic Papers[241]
Character of Lord George Gordon[241]
A doubtful fancy[242]
Interest in new labor[243]
Constraints of weekly publication[243]
The prison-riots[244]
A serious illness[244]
Close of Barnaby[244]
Character of the tale[245]
Defects in the plot[245]
The No-Popery riots[245]
Descriptive power displayed[246]
Leading persons in story[247]
Mr. Dennis the hangman[248]

CHAPTER XV. 1841.
Pages 249-262.
Public Dinner in Edinburgh. Æt. 29.
His son Walter Landor[249]
Dies in Calcutta (1863)[250]
C. D. and the new poor-law[250]
Moore and Rogers[251]
Jeffrey's praise of Little Nell[251]
Resolve to visit Scotland[251]
Edinburgh dinner proposed[252]
Sir David Wilkie's death[252]
Peter Robertson[253]
Professor Wilson[253]
A fancy of Scott[254]
Lionization made tolerable[254]
Thoughts of home[255]
The dinner and speeches[255]
His reception[256]
Wilson's eulogy[256]
Home yearnings[257]
Freedom of city voted to him[257]
Speakers at the dinner[257]
Politics and party influences[258]
Whig jealousies[259]
At the theatre[260]
Hospitalities[260]
Moral of it all[260]
Proposed visit to the Highlands[261]
Maclise and Macready[261]
Guide to the Highlands[262]
Mr. Angus Fletcher (Kindheart)[262]

CHAPTER XVI. 1841.
Pages 263-276.
Adventures in the Highlands. Æt. 29.
A fright[264]
Fletcher's eccentricities[264]
The Trossachs[264]
The traveler's guide[265]
A comical picture[265]
Highland accommodation[265]
Grand scenery[266]
Changes in route[267]
A waterfall[267]
Entrance to Glencoe[267]
The pass of Glencoe[268]
Loch Leven[269]
A July evening[269]
Postal service at Loch Earn Head[269]
The maid of the inn[270]
Impressions of Glencoe[270]
An adventure[271]
Torrents swollen with rain[271]
Dangerous traveling[272]
Incidents and accidents[272]
Broken-down bridge[273]
A fortunate resolve[273]
Post-boy in danger[274]
The rescue[274]
Narrow escape[274]
A Highland inn and inmates[275]
English comfort at Dalmally[275]
Dinner at Glasgow proposed[276]
Eagerness for home[276]

CHAPTER XVII. 1841.
Pages 277-283.
Again at Broadstairs. Æt. 29.
Peel and his party[277]
Getting very radical[278]
Thoughts of colonizing[278]
Political squib by C. D.[278]
Fine old English Tory times[279]
Mesmerism[280]
Metropolitan prisons[280]
Book by a workman[280]
An August day by the sea[281]
Another story in prospect[281]
Clock discontents[281]
New adventure[282]
Agreement for it signed[282]
The book that proved to be Chuzzlewit[283]
Peel and Lord Ashley[283]
Visions of America[283]

CHAPTER XVIII. 1841.
Pages 284-291.
Eve of the Visit To America. Æt. 29.
Greetings from America[284]
Reply to Washington Irving[284]
Difficulties in the way[285]
Resolve to go[286]
Wish to revisit scenes of boyhood[286]
Proposed book of travel[286]
Arrangements for the journey[287]
Impatience of suspense[287]
Resolve to leave the children[288]
Mrs. Dickens reconciled[288]
A grave illness[288]
Domestic griefs[289]
The old sorrow[289]
At Windsor[290]
Son Walter's christening[290]
At Liverpool with the travelers[291]

CHAPTER XIX. 1842.
Pages 292-309.
First Impressions of America. Æt. 30.
Rough passage[293]
A steamer in a storm[293]
Resigned to the worst[293]
Of himself and fellow-travelers[294]
The Atlantic from deck[294]
The ladies' cabin[294]
Its occupants[295]
Card-playing on the Atlantic[295]
Ship-news[296]
A wager[297]
Halifax harbor[297]
Ship aground[297]
Captain Hewitt[298]
Speaker of House of Assembly[299]
Ovation to C. D.[299]
Arrival at Boston[300]
Incursion of editors[300]
At Tremont House[300]
The welcome[301]
Deputations[301]
Dr. Channing to C. D.[302]
Public appearances[302]
A secretary engaged[303]
Bostonians[303]
General characteristics[304]
Personal notices[304]
Perils of steamers[305]
A home-thought[305]
American institutions[306]
How first impressed[306]
Reasons for the greeting[306]
What was welcomed in C. D.[307]
Old World and New World[308]
Daniel Webster as to C. D.[308]
Channing as to C. D.[308]
Subsequent disappointments[309]
New York invitation to dinnerFacing page [309].
Fac-similes of signatures
Additional fac-similes
New York invitation to ball
Fac-similes of signatures
Additional fac-similes

CHAPTER XX. 1842.
Pages 310-334.
Second Impressions of America. Æt. 30.
Second letter[310]
International copyright[311]
Third letter[311]
The dinner at Boston[312]
Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford[313]
Queer traveling[313]
Levees at Hartford and New Haven[313]
At Wallingford[314]
Serenades[314]
Cornelius C. Felton[315]
Payment of personal expenses declined[315]
At New York[315]
Irving and Colden[315]
Description of the ball[316]
Newspaper accounts[317]
A phase of character[317]
Opinion in America[318]
International copyright[318]
American authors in regard to it[319]
Outcry against the nation's guest[319]
Declines to be silent on copyright[319]
Speech at dinner[320]
Irving in the chair[320]
Chairman's break-down[321]
An incident afterwards in London[321]
Results of copyright speeches[322]
A bookseller's demand for help[322]
Suggestion for copyright memorial[323]
Henry Clay's opinion[323]
Life in New York[324]
Distresses of popularity[324]
Intentions for future[325]
Refusal of invitations[325]
Going south and west[325]
As to return[326]
Dangers incident to steamers[326]
Slavery[327]
Ladies of America[327]
Party conflicts[328]
Non-arrival of Cunard steamer[328]
Copyright petition for Congress[328]
No hope of the Caledonia[329]
A substitute for her[330]
Anxiety as to letters[330]
Of distinguished Americans[330]
Hotel bills[331]
Thoughts of the children[331]
Acadia takes Caledonia's place[332]
Letter to C. D. from Carlyle[332]
Carlyle on copyright[332]
Argument against stealing[333]
Rob Roy's plan worth bettering[334]
C. D. as to Carlyle[334]

CHAPTER XXI. 1842.
Pages 335-357.
Philadelphia, Washington, and the South. Æt. 30.
At Philadelphia[335]
Rule in printing letters[335]
Promise as to railroads[336]
Experience of them[337]
Railway-cars[337]
Charcoal stoves[337]
Ladies' cars[338]
Spittoons[338]
Massachusetts and New York[339]
Police-cells and prisons[339]
House of detention and inmates[340]
Women and boy prisoners[341]
Capital punishment[342]
A house of correction[342]
Four hundred single cells[343]
Comparison with English prisons[344]
Inns and landlords[344]
At Washington[344]
Hotel extortion[345]
Philadelphia penitentiary[345]
The solitary system[345]
Solitary prisoners[346]
Talk with inspectors[346]
Bookseller Carey[347]
Changes of temperature[347]
Henry Clay[348]
Proposed journeyings[348]
Letters from England[349]
Congress and Senate[349]
Leading American statesmen[349]
The people of America[350]
Englishmen "located" there[350]
"Surgit amari aliquid"[351]
The copyright petition[351]
At Richmond[351]
Irving appointed to Spain[352]
Experience of a slave city[353]
Incidents of slave-life[353]
Discussion with a slaveholder[353]
Feeling of South to England[354]
Levees at Richmond[354]
One more banquet accepted[355]
My gift of Shakspeare[355]
Home letters and fancies[356]
Self-reproach of a noble nature[356]
Washington Irving's leave-taking[357]

CHAPTER XXII. 1842.
Pages 358-380.
Canal-Boat Journeys: bound Far West. Æt. 30.
Character in the letters[358]
The Notes less satisfactory[359]
Personal narrative in letters[359]
The copyright differences[360]
Social dissatisfactions[360]
A fact to be remembered[361]
Literary merits of the letters[361]
Personal character portrayed[362]
On board for Pittsburgh[362]
Choicest passages of Notes[362]
Queer stage-coach[363]
Something revealed on the top[364]
At Harrisburg[364]
Treaties with Indians[365]
Local legislatures[365]
A levee[365]
Morning and night in canal-boat[366]
At and after breakfast[366]
Making the best of it[367]
Hardy habits[368]
By rail across mountain[368]
Mountain scenery[369]
New settlements[369]
Original of Eden in Chuzzlewit[369]
A useful word[370]
Party in America[371]
Home news[371]
Meets an early acquaintance[372]
"Smallness of the world"[372]
Queer customers at levees[372]
Our anniversary[373]
The Cincinnati steamer[374]
Frugality in water and linen[374]
Magnetic experiments[375]
Life-preservers[376]
Bores[376]
Habits of neatness[377]
Wearying for home[377]
Another solitary prison[378]
New terror to loneliness[378]
Arrival at Cincinnati[378]
Two judges in attendance[379]
The city described[379]
On the pavement[380]

CHAPTER XXIII. 1842.
Pages 381-406.
The Far West: to Niagara Falls. Æt. 30.
Descriptions in letters and in Notes[381]
Outline of westward travel[382]
An Arabian-Night city[383]
A temperance festival[383]
A party at Judge Walker's[383]
The party from another view[384]
Young lady's description of C. D.[384]
Mournful results of boredom[385]
Down the Mississippi[386]
Listening and watching[386]
A levee at St. Louis[386]
Compliments[387]
Lord Ashburton's arrival[387]
Talk with a judge on slavery[388]
A negro burnt alive[388]
Feeling of slaves themselves[389]
American testimony[389]
Pretty little scene[390]
A mother and her husband[390]
The baby[391]
St. Louis in sight[392]
Meeting of wife and husband[392]
Trip to a prairie[393]
On the prairie at sunset[393]
General character of scenery[394]
The prairie described[394]
Disappointment and enjoyment[394]
Soirée at Planter's House Inn[395]
Good fare[395]
No gray heads in St. Louis[396]
Dueling[396]
Mrs. Dickens as a traveler[397]
From Cincinnati to Columbus[397]
What a levee is like[398]
From Columbus to Sandusky[398]
The travelers alone[399]
A log house inn[400]
Making tidy[400]
A monetary crisis[400]
Americans not a humorous people[401]
The only recreations[401]
From Sandusky to Buffalo[402]
On Lake Erie[402]
Reception and consolation of a mayor[403]
From Buffalo to Niagara[403]
Nearing the Falls[404]
The Horse-shoe[404]
Effect upon him of Niagara[405]
The old recollection[405]
Looking forward[406]

CHAPTER XXIV. 1842.
Pages 407-418.
Niagara and Montreal. Æt. 30.
Last two letters[407]
Dickens vanquished[407]
Obstacles to copyright[408]
Two described[408]
Value of literary popularity[409]
Substitute for literature[410]
The secretary described[410]
His paintings[411]
The lion and ——[411]
Toryism of Toronto[412]
Canadian attentions[412]
Proposed theatricals[413]
Last letter[413]
The private play[414]
Stage manager's report[414]
Bill of the performance[415]
The lady performers[417]
A touch of Crummles[417]
Home[418]


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Autograph of C. D. (1837)[Fly-leaf]
C. D. æt. 27. From Maclise's Painting, by Graves, A.R.A.[Title-page]
Fac-simile of Letter written in Boyhood[79]
Outline of the Maclise Painting of 1839. Engraved by Jeens[178]
Apotheosis of Grip the Raven, by Maclise, R.A.[237]
Fac-simile of C. D.'s autograph signature Boz (1841)[276]
Fac-simile of Invitation to the Public Dinner in New York, with the signatures [309]
Fac-simile of Invitation to the Public Ball in New York, with the signatures[309]
Fac-simile of the Bill of the Private Play in Canada[415]