illnesses of, i.60,130,244,288; ii.216,297,312note; iii.304,305,306,311,312,313,315,321,355,375,404,410,412,416,426,427,437,441,450.clerk in an attorney's office, i.87.hopeless love of, i.92,93.employed as a parliamentary reporter, i.96(and see iii.512note).his first attempts in literature, i.97.his marriage, i.108.writes for the stage, i.116(and see140,183).predominant impression of his life, i.120,405; ii.147-150; iii.524,525.personal habits of, i.132,133,224,368,376,377,400; ii.216,225,324; iii.215-218,513.relations of, with his illustrators, i.154-156; ii.347,348.portraits of, i.178note; iii.148-150,238.curious epithets given by, to his children, i.182note; ii.248note,266note,314,315,324note; iii.100(and see i.261,306,331,356,418).his ravens, i.233-239; ii.215.adventures in the Highlands, i.263-276.first visit to the United States, i.284.domestic griefs of, i.289.an old malady of, i.288; iii.314,534.an admirable stage manager, i.414-417; ii.210,212-214,370,371,393note,400,401.his dogs, ii.24,25,134note; iii.144note,217-220,222.his Will, ii.59,60(and see iii.561).his accompaniments of work, ii.48,121,240; iii.211,212note.religious views of, ii.59,60,147-150; iii.484-486.turning-point of his career, ii.72.writing in theChronicle, ii.105.fancy sketch of his biographer, ii.383.sea-side holidays of, ii.403-441; iii.96-120.Italian travels, ii.111-200; iii.78-95.craving for crowded streets, ii.144,151,277,281,313.political opinions of, ii.146; iii.498-503(and see528).wish to become an actor, ii.205.his long walks, ii.158,230note,312note; iii.249,515-517.first desire to become a public reader, ii.174,284; iii.60,61.edits theDaily News, ii.218.his home in Switzerland, ii.225,226.residence in Paris, ii.316-336, iii.121-153.underwriting numbers, ii.335note,362; iii.377,466.overwriting numbers, ii.342,343,356.first public readings, iii.60.revisits Switzerland and Italy, iii.76-95.his birds, iii.117,118.home disappointments, iii.177-201(and see512).separation from his wife, iii.200.purchases Gadshill-place, iii.205.first paid Readings, iii.223-238.second series of Readings, iii.255-274.third series of Readings, iii.298-324.revisits America, iii.387-443.memoranda for stories first jotted down by, iii.180(and see275-297).his "violated letter," iii.201,231.favourite walks of, iii.209,220-222.his mother's death, iii.300.his first attack of lameness, iii.304(and see312,321,376,437,442note,453,455,456,509,514,530,537).general review of his literary labours, iii.325-386,380-386.effect of his death in America, iii.384.last readings of, iii.444-460.noticeable changes in, iii.447,455,534.comparison of his early and his late MSS., iii.466,468,469.personal characteristics of, iii.478-526.his interview with the Queen, iii.507,508.strain and excitement at the final readings at St. James's Hall, iii.532.last days at Gadshill, iii.539,543.a tribute of gratitude to, for his books, iii.538,539.general mourning for, iii.542.burial in Westminster Abbey, iii.544.unbidden mourners at grave, iii.544.Dickens (Mrs.), i.108,135,252,264,273,287,290,294,299,304,313,318,336,344,348,349,373,375,387,397,403,404,411,413-415, ii.140,149,163,165, iii.113;reluctance to leave England, i.287;an admirable traveller, i.397;Maclise's portrait of, ii.44;the separation, iii.200(and see562,564.)Dickens (Charles, jun.), i.257,331, ii.179;birth of, i.119;illness of, ii.335;education of, ii.323, iii.57note;marriage of, iii.262.Dickens (Mary), birth of, i.149(and see ii.471, iii.561).Dickens (Kate), birth of, i.186(and see ii.470);illness of, ii.122;marriage of, iii.255.Dickens (Walter Landor), death of, i.250(and see iii.300,301).Dickens (Francis Jeffrey), birth of, ii.61.Dickens (Alfred Tennyson), ii.215.Dickens (Lieut. Sydney), death of, at sea, ii.369note.Dickens (Henry Fielding), birth of, ii.462;acting of, iii.63;scholarship at Cambridge won by, iii.529(and see iii.562).Dickens (Edward Bulwer Lytton), birth of, iii.54.Dickens (Dora Annie), birth of, ii.487;death of, ii.492;her grave at Highgate, ii.493, iii.52.Dickens in Camp(Bret Harte's), i.215,216.Dilke (Charles Wentworth), i.47,48;death of, iii.303note.Dilke (Sir Charles), ii.437.Disraeli (Mr.), iii.537.Doctors, Dickens's distrust of, ii.433.Doctors' Commons, Dickens reporting in, i.92(and see ii.219, iii.39).Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions, large sale of, ii.87note;Dickens's faith in, iii.307;how written, iii.379;success of the reading of, at New York, iii.409,410.Dogs, Dickens's, ii.24,25,134note, iii.144note,217-220,222;effect of his sudden lameness upon, iii.518.Dolby (Miss), ii.475.Dolby, Mr. (Dickens's manager) sent to America, iii.320;troubles of, iii.394,400,408,411,412;the most unpopular man in America, iii.394;care and kindness of, iii.441;commission received by, iii.446.Dombey and Son, original of Mrs. Pipchin in, i.55, ii.355;begun at Rosemont, ii.241;Dickens at work on, ii.249,250,266,297,314;general idea for, ii.250;hints to artist, ii.250;a reading of first number of, ii.283;large sale of, ii.296,353(and see447);a number under written, ii.335note;charwoman's opinion of, ii.335,336;plan of, ii.337-341;progress of, ii.341-367;artist-fancies for Mr. Dombey, ii.345,346;passage of original MS. omitted, ii.343,344note;a reading of second number of, ii.353(and see257,281);Jeffrey on, ii.358,359and note,358;characters in, and supposed originals of, ii.362-367(and see107);profits of, ii.384;translated into Russian, ii.448.Doncaster, the race-week at, iii.174-176;a "groaning phantom" at, iii.174.Dora, a real, i.92,93;changed to Flora inLittle Dorrit, i.94.D'Orsay (Count) and Roche the courier, ii.204note;death of, iii.55.Doughty-street, Dickens removes to, i.119;incident of, iii.252.Dover, Dickens at, iii.54,55;reading at, iii.264;storm at,iii.264.Dowling (Vincent), i.101.Dramatic College, Royal, Dickens's interest in the, iii.236.Dream, a vision in a, ii.148-150(and see iii.522-524);President Lincoln's, iii.423.Drunkard's Children(Cruikshank's), Dickens's opinion of, ii.410,410.Drury-lane theatre, opening of, ii.30.Dublin, Dickens's first impressions of, iii.225;humorous colloquies at Morrison's hotel in, iii.227,228;reading in, iii.317(and see226note,228).Duelling in America, i.396.Dumas (Alexandre), tragedy ofKeanby, ii.127(and see iii.491note);hisChristine, ii.176;a supper with, ii.331.Dundee, reading at, iii.233.Du Plessis (Marie), death of, ii.333.Dyce (Alexander), ii.473.EdeninMartin Chuzzlewit, original of, i.363,369;a worse swamp than, ii.77.Edinburgh, public dinner in, to Dickens, i.249-262;presentation of freedom of, i.257(and see iii.197);wassail-bowl presented afterCarolreading, iii.197;readings at, iii.233,267,451, and450note;Scott monument at, ii.392.Editorial troubles and pleasures, iii.493.Editors, American, incursion of, i.300.Education, two kinds of, i.89;Dickens's speeches on, ii.95.Edwin Drood, clause inserted in agreement for, iii.461note;sale of, iii.461note;amount paid for, iii.461note;first fancy for, iii.462;the story as planned in Dickens's mind, iii.463,464;Longfellow on, iii.464;merits of, iii.464,465;facsimile of portion of final page of, iii.466(and see468);an unpublished scene for, iii.467-476;original of the opium-eater in, iii.528;a reading of a number of, iii.530.Egg (Augustus), fancy sketch of, ii.383;holiday trip of, with Dickens and Wilkie Collins, iii.76-95;narrow escape at Chamounix, iii.77.Electric message, uses for an, iii.282.Eliot (George), Dickens's opinion of her first book, ii.47.Elliotson (Dr.), i.270, ii.109,109.Elton (Mr.), Dickens's exertions for family of, ii.55.Elwin (Rev. Whitwell), allusion to, ii.462.Emerson (Ralph Waldo), ii.476.Emigrants in Canada, ii.28,28.Emigration schemes, Dickens's belief in, ii.262.Emmanuel (Victor), visit of, to Paris, iii.127.Englishmen abroad, ii.223,252,266-271.Engravings, Dickens on, ii.167,168note.Evening Chronicle, sketches contributed by Dickens to, i.105.Evenings of a Working-man(John Overs'), ii.109.Every Man in his Humour, private performances of, at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii.209,211(and see iii.537).Examiner, articles by Dickens in the, i.185.Executions, public, letter against, ii.479.Exeter, reading at, iii.224.Eye-openers, iii.409.Facsimiles:of letter written in boyhood by Dickens, i.79;of the autograph signature "Boz," i.276;of New York invitations to Dickens, i.308-309;of letter to George Cruikshank, ii.349,350;of plan prepared for first numbers ofCopperfieldandLittle Dorrit, iii.157,158;of portion of last page ofEdwin Drood, iii.468(and see488);ofOliver Twist, iii.469.Fairbairn (Thomas), letter of Dickens to, on posthumous honours, iii.487.Fatal Zero(Percy Fitzgerald's), iii.495.Faucit (Helen), ii.475.Fechter (Mr.),châletpresented by, to Dickens, iii.211,212;Dickens's friendly relations with, iii.302.Feline foes, iii.117,118Felton (Cornelius C.), i.304,315,320, ii.192note;death of, iii.269note.Fenianism in Ireland, iii.316,317note;in America, iii.397(and see508).Fermoy (Lord), iii.522.Fêtes at Lausanne, ii.246,246.Fiction, realities of, iii.346-363.Field (Kate),Pen Photographsby, iii.236note.Fielding (Henry), real people in novels of, iii.22;episodes introduced by, in his novels, iii.161;Dr. Johnson's opinion of, iii.346;M. Taine's opinion of, iii.348.Fields (James T.),Yesterdays with Authorsby, ii.42note;on Dickens's health in America, iii.404,405;at Gadshill, iii.527,528.Fiesole, Landor's villa at, ii.189note.Fildes (S. L.), chosen to illustrateEdwin Drood, iii.467.Finality, a type of, ii.408.Finchley, cottage at, rented by Dickens, ii.51.Fine Old English Gentleman, political squib by Dickens, i.278,279.Fireflies in Italy, ii.196, and note.Fires in America, frequency of, iii.399,400Fitzgerald (Percy), iii.218;a contributor inAll the Year Round, iii.245;personal liking of Dickens for, iii.495."Fix," a useful word in America, i.370.Flanders, Dickens's trip to, i.