9,11,20,50Hogarth, Mrs., letters to,6,20,50Holland House,178Home, thoughts of,29;a welcome to,255Hood, Mr. Tom, letter to,43House of Commons, the, Dickens's opinion of,181,194Howe, Dr.,33,37Hugo, Victor, Dickens's opinion of,91;and see283Hullah, Mr. John, letters to,1-3Hunt, Mr. Leigh,13,95,97-100,259Hyde Park, closing of, by the Government in 1869,289Ireland, Mr. Alexander; seeLettersIreland, Dickens on,279;in 1869,288;land tenure in,289Irish Church, the, the Disestablishment of,279Irving, Mr. Washington,47,247;letters to,21,27,178Italian patriots, Dickens on,191Italy, visions of holiday life in,66;proposed visit to,66,68;Dickens in,70-78,145-158;the Peschiere Palace at Genoa in,153;a bath at Naples in,155Jerrold, Mr. Douglas,98,101,118"John Acland," by the Hon. Robert Lytton,284,286Jolly, Miss Emily, letters to,173,175,181,183,283Jones, Mr. Ebenezer, letter to,68Keeley, Mr. and Mrs.,87Kenny, Mr. J., letter to,177Kent, Mr. C.,260Kent, Dickens's affection for,15"Kentish Coronal, The,"15King, Mr. Joseph C., letter to,109King, Miss, letters to,162,164"King Arthur," Dickens's opinion of Lord Lytton's poem of,107King David, a profane,73Knowles, Mr. James Sheridan,104;letter to,92"Lady of Lyons, The," Dickens on the proposed opera of,211;Fechter in,234,240Landor, Mr. Walter,77Langley, Mr.,97Lanman, Mr. Charles, letter to,247Lausanne, friends in,143Layard, Mr. Austen Henry,169,289;and seeLettersLayard, Mrs.,274Leech, Mr. John,101,118Lehmann, Mr. Frederic,199,223Lemon, Mr. Mark,101,114,118,119,122,123Lemon, Mrs.,114Leslie, R.A., Mr.,176,178Letters of Charles Dickens to:Adams, Mr. H. G.,15,208Anonymous,229Austin, Mr. Henry,130Austin, Mrs.,214Babbage, Mr. Charles,69Baylis, Mr.,212Blessington, the Countess of,17,65,70,74,75,89Bowring, Sir John,193,295Boyle, Miss Mary,220Browning, Mr. Robert,227Buckstone, Mr.,296Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton,62;and seeLytton, Sir Edward Bulwer, andLytton, LordLytton, LordChapman, Mr. Edward,14,91Chapman, Mr. Frederic,294Chappell, Mr. Tom,279Chorley, Mr. Henry F.,190,213,216,222,231Clark, Mr. L. Gaylord,19Clarke, Mrs. Cowden,103,106,108,123,136,188Collins, Mr. Wilkie,171Dickens, Alfred,299Dickens, Mrs. Charles,142,145,149,153,154Eden, the Hon. Miss,128Fechter, Mr. Charles,244,254Felton, Professor,24,28,32,35,38,46,52,59Fields, Mr. James T.,232,236,249,252,260,268,270,290Fields, Mrs. James T.,255Forster, Mr. John,165,225Forster, Mrs. John,273Fox, Mr. W. J.,84Frith, R.A., Mr. W. P.,188Gaskell, Mrs.,159Gibson, Mrs. Milner,205Grew, Mr. Frederick,158Harley, Mr. J. P.,13Harness, Rev. W.,159Harrison, Mr. James Bower,132,136Hodgson, Dr.,93,95Hogarth, Mr. George,5Hogarth, Mrs.,6,20,50Hood, Mr. Tom,43Hullah, Mr. John,1-3Ireland, Mr. Alexander,97-99,104,112,259Irving, Mr. Washington,21,27,178Jolly, Miss Emily,173,175,181,183,283Jones, Mr. Ebenezer,68Kenny, Mr. J., and Ross, Mr. T.,177King, Mr. Joseph C.,109King, Miss,162,164Knowles, Mr. James Sheridan,92Lanman, Mr. Charles,247Layard, Mr. Austen Henry,132,194,274,290Lytton, Hon. Robert,230,281,286Lytton, Lord,228,234,240,241,293;see alsoBulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, andLytton, Sir Edward BulwerLytton, Sir Edward Bulwer,88,102,107,113,114,116,117,121,122,125,133,180,198-200,204,207,209-211,220;see alsoBulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, andLytton, LordMackay, Mr. Charles,295Malleson, Mrs.,197Millais, R.A., Mr. J. E.,263Mitton, Mr.,125Morgan, Captain,176,195Napier, Mr. Macvey,43,57,78,83Olliffe, Lady,205Olliffe, Miss,275Pease, Mrs.,248Phillips, Mr. Henry W.,231Procter, Mr. B. W.,208Procter, Mrs.,223Robinson, Rev. Thomas,16Ross, Mr. R. M.,226Rusden, Mr.,228,265,278,281,287,289,297Rye, Mr. W. B.,224Sammins, Mr. W. L.,12Serle, Mr.,263Smith, Mr. Albert,186Smith, Mr. Arthur,187Smith, Mr. H. P.,82Stone, Mr. Frank,129,179Sturgis, Mr. Russell,267,272Thackeray, Mr. W. M.,165Thompson, Mr.,16,64,66,67,81,85Thornbury, Mr. Walter,239White, Rev. James,141,160Wills, Mr. W. H.,137,140,161,218,219Winter, Mrs.,167,170Lewes, Mr.,101"Lighthouse, The," production of, at the Olympic,172"Lirriper, Mrs.,"218Liverpool, meeting of the Mechanics' Institute at,64;theatricals at,96,98London, the, wreck of,225Longfellow, Mr.,33,39,42,62,260,261Longman, Mr.,293Lumley, Mr.,86Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer; seeLetters;see alsoBulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, andLytton, LordLytton, Lord; seeLettersLytton, Hon. Robert, letters to,230,284,286Mackay, Mr. Charles, letter to,295Maclise, R.A., Mr. Daniel,30,36,39,42,47,54,55,77,86Macready, Mr. W.,25,30,54,60,62,88,90,119,153,234Macready, Miss,153Malleson, Mrs., letter to,197"Man about Town, The,"45Manchester, Dickens at,61;theatricals at,96,98,105Manin, M.,192Mario, Signor,86Martin, Captain,225"Martin Chuzzlewit,"39,46,52,66Mazzini, M.,192"Medical Aspects of Death, The,"132"Message from the Sea, A,"196Meyerbeer, M.,172Millais, R.A., Mr. J. E.,292;letter to,263Mistake, a common, among would-be authors,229Mitton, Mr.,9;letter to,125"Modern Greek Songs,"159Molesworth, Lady,216"Money," Dickens on Lord Lytton's play of,117Montague, Miss Emmeline,124Morgan, Captain, letters to,176,195Morley, Mr.,165,166Morpeth, Lord,57"Mrs. Tillotson," by Percy Fitzgerald,228"Much Ado about Nothing," a captain's views on,47Murray, Mr. Leigh,87Napier, Mr. Macvey, letters to,43,67,78,83Naples, Dickens at,76Napoleon the Third, Dickens prophesies the overthrow of,298"National Music," Mr. Chorley's lecture on,213Nature, Topping, the groom, on,36Niagara, the falls of,76Nicknames, of Professor Felton,32;Dickens's, of himself,62,64,107,124,143;of his son Edward,158,281Normanby, Lord,86"No Thoroughfare," the play of,244,253,254,257"Not So Bad As We Seem," Dickens's opinion of Lord Lytton's comedy of,117;Dickens plays in,118,124Novello, Mr. Alfred,264Novello, Miss Sabilla,264Novel-writing, Dickens on,185"Old Curiosity Shop, The," feeling for, in America,19"Oliver Twist,"16;the reading of the murder from,268;effect of the murder reading,278Olliffe, Sir J.,186,187Olliffe, Lady,187;letter to,205Olliffe, Miss, letter to,275Osgood, Mr.,234"Our London Correspondent," Dickens on,112"Our Mutual Friend,"218,221Oyster cellars out of season,31Oysters,26,35Paris, Dickens in,85,89;the drama in,90Pease, Mrs., letter to,248Phillips, Mr. Henry W., letter to,231Pickthorn, Dr.,10Picnic, a, in Kent,260Political Life, Dickens's opinion of,222Political meetings, Dickens on,287Poole, Mr.,85,100Portrait of Dickens, by Frith,188Power, Miss,66,74,91Prescott, Dickens's admiration for,61Prince Consort, the,123Prince of Wales, the,296Prisons, Dickens on discipline in,138Pritchard the poisoner,221Procter, Mr. B. W.,253,260;letter to,208Procter, Mrs.,179,223,260Procter, Miss Adelaide,223Puffery, Dickens's hatred of,140Punishment of death, Dickens on the,78Purse, a theatrical,73Queen, the, Maclise and,55;her reception of Longfellow,261;and see119,121,123,299Rainforth, Miss,4Reade, Mr. Charles,233Readings, Dickens's public,208,227,230,231;the object of the,230;the proposed series of, in America,234;the labour of the,238;farewell series of,256,278,281;the trial reading of the murder,268,276;effect of the reading of the murder on the audience,278Red tape, Dickens on,176Reform Bill, Dickens on the,266Reform meeting at Drury-lane Theatre,165Religion, Dickens on,17Review,The North American,46;The Edinburgh,43,46,57,58,78,83Robinson, Mr.,98,100,105Robinson, Rev. Thomas, letter to,16Robson, Mr. F.,153,172"Roccabella," Dickens's opinion of Mr. Chorley's story of,190Roche, the courier,146Rogers, Mr. Samuel,178Rome, Dickens at,76Ross, Mr. John,9Ross, Mr. R. M., letter to,226Ross, Mr. T., letter to,177Royal Exchange, the, fire at,10Rusden, Mr.; seeLettersRussell, Mr. George,218Russell, Lord John,172,288Russia, s.s., the,249,276Rye, Mr. W. B., letter to,224Sammins, Mr. W. L., letter to,12Sartoris, Mr. and Mrs.,157Satirist, The,45Sausage, a questionable,131Scheffer, Ary,192Schools, Dickens on ragged,58Scotland, Dickens's love for the people of,295Scott, Sir Walter, extracts from the diary of,11,