grave was prepared and everything arranged, when it was made known to the family, through Dean Stanley, that there was a general and very earnest desire that Charles Dickens should find his resting-place in Westminster Abbey. To such a fitting tribute to his memory they could make no possible objection, although it was with great regret that they relinquished the idea of laying him in a place so closely identified with his life and his works. His name, notwithstanding, is associated with Rochester, a tablet to his memory having been placed by his executors on the wall of Rochester Cathedral.
With regard to Westminster Abbey, his family only stipulated that the funeral might be made as private as possible, and that the words of his will, "I emphatically direct that I be buried in an inexpensive, unostentatious, and strictly private manner," should be religiously adhered to. And so they were; the solemn service in the vast cathedral being as private as the most thoughtful consideration could make it.
The family of Charles Dickens were deeply grateful to all in authority who so carried out his wishes. And more especially to the late Dean Stauley and Lady Augusta Stanley, for the tender sympathy shown by them to the mourners on this day, and also on Sunday, the nineteenth, when the Dean preached his beautiful funeral sermon.
As during his life Charles Dickens' 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
"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 Eod, all who see it, for that older fashion get, of immortality!"
A'BECKETT, Mr. Gilbert, 133, 134
Acrobats, 542
Actors, Dickens a friend to poor, 511
Adams, Mr. G., 31; letters to, 33, 527
Affidavit, a facetious, 107
Agassiz, Professor, 642, 643
Agate, Mr. John, 513; letter to, 529
Agreement, a sporting, 665
Ainsworth, Mr. W. H., 24, 37; letters to,
43, 99
Air, Dickens' love of fresh, 365
Alison, Sir Archibald, 162
Allston, Mr. Washington, 81
"All the Year Round," commencement of,
473; "The Uncommercial Traveller" in,
490; success of, 516; Christmas Num-
bers of: "The Haunted House," 474;
"A Message from the Sea," 490, 511;
"Tom Tiddler's Ground," 512; "Some-
body's Luggage," 539; "Mrs. Lirriper's
Lodgings," 551; Mrs. Lirriper's
Legacy," 567, 574; "Dr. Marigold's Pre-
scriptions," 578, 589, 593, 595; "Mugby
Junction," 594, 610; "No Thorough-
fare," 611, 636, 647; Abandonment of
the Christmas Numbers, 695; and see
652, 695; and see Charles Dickens as an
Editor
America, feeling for Dickens in the back-
woods of, 41; feeling for the "Curiosity
Shop" in, 49; Dickens' first visit to, 49,
53, 56; his welcome in, 56; description
of life in, 57; his opinion of, 59-64; free-
dom of opinion in, 61; Dickens' levees
in, 58, 63; changes of temperature in, 63;
hotel charges in, 64; midnight rambles in
New York, 64; descriptions of Niagara,
65-67, 681; a maid's views on Niagara,
67; amateur theatricals in, 67, 68; copy-
right in, 66, 70, 72; friends in, 67-69, 673;
voyage home from, 72; Dickens' tribute
to Mrs. Trollope's book on, 78; press-
ridden, 104; absence of quiet in, 105;
the great war in, 521-522, 562; feeling be-
tween England and, 590; Dickens' feeling
for the people of, 634; Dickens' second
visit to the start, 639; the journey,
639-641; Dickens' letters on, 642-684;
fires in, 648, 650; treatment of luggage
in, 650; drinks in, 655, 674; literary
piracy in, 656; walking-match between
Dolby and Osgood in, 663, 665-668, 673,
675, 676; changes and improvements in,
since Dickens' first visit, 664, 680; the
negroes in, 665; personal descriptions of
Dickens in, 660, 678; travelling in, 680;
second journey home from, 685-687;
desire on the part of Dickens to promote
friendly relations between England and,
691; and see Readings
"American Notes," publication of, 53, 72;
success of, 78; and see 634
Andersen, Hans Christian, 163, 416; letter
to, 180
"Animal Magnetism," tag to, written by
Dickens, 230
Anne, Mrs. Dickens' maid, 67, 372, 645,
649, 662
Appleton, Mr., 652, 692
Apprentices, The Tour of the Two Idle,"
417, 436-439
"Arabian Nights," a mistake in the, 91
Armstrong, the Misses, letter to, 542; and
"Arrest of the Five Members," Dickens on
Forster's, 491, 495
Ashburton, Lord, 87
Astley's Theatre, description of a clown
at, 120
Athenæum Club, The, Dickens elected at,
Austin, Mr. Henry, 4, 232, 512; and see
Letters
Austin, Mrs. Henry, 749; letters to, 529,
545, 548, 693
Author, the highest reward of an, 41;
dreams of an, 97; penalties of an, 365
Autobiography, a concise, of Dickens, 399
Autograph of Dickens in 1833, 5; Dickens
leaves his in Shakespeare's room, 17; of
Boz, 42; of Dickens as Bobadil, 188;
facsimile of Dickens' handwriting in 1856,
388; facsimile letters of Dickens written
the day before his death, 745-747
BABBAGE, Mr. Charles, 85; letters to, 89,
112, 182
Bairr, Mrs., 302
Bancroft, Mrs., letter to, 742
Banks, Mr. G. L., 264; letter to, 282
Barber, Dickens' gardener, 487
Barham, Rev. Thomas, 12
Barker, Dr. Fordyce, 651, 708
"Barnaby Rudge," written and published,
37; Dickens' descriptions of the illustra-
tions of the raven, 39; the locksmith's
house, 39; rioters in The Maypole, 45; |
scene in the ruins of the Warren, 46;
abduction of Dolly Varden, 47; Lord
George Gordon in the Tower, the duel,
frontispiece, 48; Hugh taken to goal, 49
Bath, a, abroad, 301; at Naples, 311
"Battle of Life, The," 147; dedication of,
153; Dickens superintends rehearsals of
the play of, 156, 159; sale of, 160, 168;
reception of the play of, 160; Dickens
on, 183
Baylis, Mr., 538; letters to, 541, 545
Beadle, a, in office, 510
Beard, Mr. Frank, 547, 598, 707, 720, 749
Beaucourt, M., 283, 322, 335, 400
Bedstead, a German, 130
Beecher, Mr. Ward, 661
Begging letters, Dickens' answers to, 148,
150, 513; Dickens on writers of, 701
Belcher, Sir Edward, 263
Belgians, the King of the, 733
Bennett, Mr. John, letter to, 564
"Bentley's Miscellany," 38; Dickens' con-
nection with, 4, 23
Benzon, Miss Lily, letter to, 604
Benzon, Mrs., 517
Berry, one of Dickens' readings men, 454,
457, 467
Bicknell, Mr. Henry, 211; letter to, 224
Biliousness, an effect of, 159
Biographers, Dickens on, 186; his opinion
of John Forster as a biographer, 185-
187
Birmingham, meeting of Polytechnic In-
stitution at, 100, 107; public dinner to
Dickens at, 264; the Institute at, 325,
440
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Blessington, the Countess of, 163; and see
Letters
Blue-stockings, Dickens on, 44
Bobadil, Captain, Dickens plays, 134;
Dickens' remarks on, 143; a letter after,
188
Book-backs, Dickens' imitation, 258
Bouncer, Mrs., Miss Dickens' dog, 491,
504, 549, 588, 670
Bowring, Sir John, letters to, 508, 740
Bow Street runners, 544
Boxall, Sir William, 227, 229
Boy, the Magnetic, 44
Boyle, Captain Cavendish, 354, 523, 709
Boyle, Miss Mary, 209, 211, 219, 384, 502,
523, 647, 687, 709; and see Letters
Braham, Mr., 4, 7-9
Braham, Mrs., 8
Breach of Promise, a new sort of, 174
Breakfast, a Yorkshire, 15; a, aboard ship,
686
Broadstairs, Dickens at, 4, 11, 31, 37, 53,
134, 142, 162, 178, 210, 216, 232, 474; de-
scription of lodgings at, 35; description
of, 95: amusements of, 175, 178; size of
Fort House at, 248; a wreck at, 255
Bromley, Sir Richard, 504
Brookfield, Mrs., 551; letter to, 599
Brookfield, the Rev. W., 551; letters to,
559, 560
Brooks, Mr. Shirley, 392, 570, 709; letter
to, 724
Brougham, Lord, 87, 522
Browne, Mr. H. K., 11, 18, 32, 40
Browning, Mr. Robert, 594; letter to, 600
Buckstone, Mr. J. B., 337, 392; letter to,
740
Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, 101; letter to,
106; and see Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer,
and Lytton, Lord
Burnett, Mrs., 100, 181
Butler, Mrs., 148
CABIN, a, on board ship, 54, 55
Calculation, a long, 81
Campbell, Lord, 522
Capital punishment, Dickens' views on,
200-205
"Captives, The," Dickens' criticism on
Lord Lytton's play of, 637
Carlisle, the Earl of: see Letters
Carlyle, Mr. Thomas, 68, 495
Carlyle, Mrs., 402
Carter, Mr., 468
Cartwright, Mr. Samuel, 653; letter to, 664
Castlereagh, Lord, 238
Cat-hunting, 407
Cattermole, Mr. George, 54, 653; and see
Letters
Cattermole, Mrs., letter to, 688
Céleste, Madame, 365, 489
Cerjat, M. de, 147, 303, 709; and see
Letters
Chambers, Mr. Robert, 443, 535
Book Clubs, established, 100; Dickens on, Chancery, Dickens on the Court of, 408
Chapman, Mr. Edward, letters to, 30, 170
Chapman, Mr. Frederic, letter to, 737
Chapman and Hall, Messrs., 3, 6, 53; letter
to, 54
Chappell, Messrs., 594, 643, 707, 717
Chappell, Mr. A., 611
Chappell, Mr. T., 719; letter to, 721
Charities, Dickens' sufferings from public,
Charity, a vote for a, 197
Chéri, Rose, 165
Children, stories of, 218, 339, 388, 557, 672,
724; Dickens on the death of, 187, 372
Childs, Mr., 659, 708
"Chimes, The," written, 100; an attack
on cant, 125, 131; Dickens at work on,
127; his interest in, 127; Dickens' opinion
of, 131, 133; Dickens gives a private
reading of, 133
Chitty, Mr. J., 698
Chorley, Mr. H. F., 491, 665; and see
Letters
Christening, a boisterous, 692
"Christmas Carol, The," publication of,
85; Dickens at work on, 101, 106; suc-
cess of, 102; criticisms on, 105
Christmas greetings, 160
Christmas keeping, 102
Chronicle, The Evening, Dickens' connec-
tion with, 6
Church, Dickens on the, 575; service on
board ship, 664; Dickens on the Romish,
711
Circumlocution, Dickens on, 591, 613
Clark, Mr. L. Gaylord, letter to, 49
Clark, Mr. W. Gaylord, 49
Clarke, Mrs. Cowden; see Letters
Clarke, Mr. John, letter to, 717
Clifford, Hon. Mrs., 704
Clock, the disorders of a, 564
Cobden, Mr. Richard, 148
Cockspur Street Society, the, 85, 90
Cold, effects of a, 99; remedy for a, 161
Colden, Mr. David, 62, 105
Collins, Mr. C. A., 474, 486, 490, 496, 576,
593, 695, 711, 735
Collins, Mr. Wilkie, 233, 263, 283, 303, 321,
336, 349, 360, 383, 384, 387, 395, 417, 436,
439, 474, 490, 538, 612, 627, 631, 673; and
see Letters
Comedy, Mr. Webster's offer for a prize,
Dickens an imaginary competitor, 85, 93
Compton, Mrs., letter to, 432
Conjuring feats, 104; and see 80, 592
"Conversations," Landor's,
Cooke, Mr. T. P., 118, 416; letter to, 432
Cookesley, Mr., 206
Co-operation, Dickens on, 590
Coote, Mr. Charles, 322
Copyright, 11; Dickens' struggles to secure
English, in America, 67, 68, 70-72, 182,
634, 694, 736
Corn Laws, the Repeal of the, 148
Cornwall, a trip to, 79
Corporation, Dickens on the City, 362
Costello, Mr. Dudley, 177, 233; letter to,
Thackeray's, 362; Dickens' kindly criti-
cisms on young writers, 423, 428, 610,
616; for other criticisms, see 150, 446,
493, 570, 599
Croker, Mr. J. Crofton, 263; letter to, 267
Cruikshank, Mr. George, 162, 177, 291
Cullenford, Mr., 164
Cunningham, Mrs., 724
Cunningham, Mr. Peter, 181, 392; letters
to, 262, 295, 334
Curtis, Mr., 409
DACRES, Sir Sydney, 654
Daily News, The, started, 134; Dickens
gives up connection with, 147; the first
issue of, 148
Dallas, Mrs., letter to, 557
Dallas, Mr., 586
Dando," the oyster-eater, 71, 73
"David Copperfield," dedication of, 147;
purpose of Little Emily in, 209; success
of, 209; reading of, 349, 355, 600; Dickens'
favourite work, 355; and see 196, 198,
210, 216, 219, 221, 271, 560
Deane, Dr. F. H., 53; letter to, 65
Death, Dickens on the punishment of, 140
De Gex, Mr., 12
Delane, Mr. John, 284, 725; letter to, 297
De la Rue, M., 476, 568
Derby, Lord, Dickens' opinion of, 731
Devonshire, the Duke of, 240, 245; letters
to, 398, 403, 413
Devrient, Mr. Emil, 269
Diary, fragments of Dickens', 12-14
Dickens, Charles, at Furnival's Inn, 3; his
marriage, 3; employed as a parliament-
ary reporter, 3; spends his honeymoon at
Chalk, Kent, 3; employed on The Morning
Chronicle, 3, 4; sudden fame of, 3; re-
moves to Doughty Street, 4; writes for
the stage, 4, 9, 19, 20, 406; his affection
for Mary Hogarth, 4, 10, 11, 14, 15; his
visit to the Yorkshire schools, 11, 14; at
Twickenham Park, 11; his visit to Strat-
ford-on-Avon and Kenilworth, 11; diary
of, 12-15; his "Sketches of Young
Gentlemen," 13; his "Sunday under
Three Heads," 13; insures his life, 13;
elected at the Athenæum Club, 17; in
Shakespeare's room, 17; removes to
Devonshire Terrace, 21; is entered at the
Middle Temple, 21, 30; his connection
with "Bentley's Miscellany," 23; his
feeling for Kent, 33; personal feeling
for his characters, 36, 38, 42, 221, 365;
declines to enter Parliament, 38, 44, 45,
698; public dinners to, 38, 263, 283, 611,
638, 683, 707, 709, 710, 716, 718; the pur-
pose of his writing, 43; his childhood,
52; visit to Cornwall, 53, 79; dinner to,
at Greenwich, 72; on American criticism,
78; as a conjuror, 80; an enemy of cant,
91, 131; political opinions of, 61, 90, 112,
584, 735; fancy signatures to letters of,
94, 103, 145, 150, 176, 190, 198, 230,
391, 511, 551, 556; facetious description
of himself, 95; his views on education,
98, 112; takes the chair at the opening
of the Liverpool Mechanics' Institute,
100, 107, 109; at work on "The Chimes,"
100; at work on "The Christmas Carol,'
101; effects of work on, 121, 598, 610,
652, 707; The Daily News edited by, 134,
147; as a stage-manager, 68, 156, 160,
176, 225, 226, 229, 245, 434; at Chester
Place, Regent's Park, 162; takes the
chair at the opening of the Leeds Me-
chanics' Institute, and of the Glasgow
Athenæum, 162; at Brighton, 180, 196,
210; at Bonchurch, 196; purchases
Tavistock House, 232, 252; and see
Tavistock House; illnesses of, 18, 283,
598, 614, 628, 651, 659, 682, 684, 707, 720,
721, 732, 733, 740, 748, 749; presentation of
plate to, at Birmingham, 328; purchases
Gad's Hill, 350, 381; and see Gad's Hill;
delivers a speech on administrative re-
form, 349; at Folkestone, 350; restless-
ness of, when at work, 345, 365, 376, 391,
509; his love of fresh air, 365; on the
death of children, 372; on red tape, 383,
591; on Sunday bands, 398; tour of,
in the North, 417, 436-439; elected a
member of the Birmingham Institute,
440; religious views of, 43, 472, 473, 529,
546, 561, 575, 699, 706, 747; visit of,
to Cornwall, 490; at Hanover Terrace,
Regent's Park, 512; visits Lord Lytton
at Knebworth, 512; at Hyde Park Gate
South, 537; at 57 Gloucester Place, Hyde
Park, 566; at work on "Our Mutual
Friend," 568, 574, 578, 582; at Somers
Place, Hyde Park, 578; in the Staple-
hurst accident, 578, 581-583; at South-
wick Place, Hyde Park, 594; energy of,
626; one of the secrets of the success of,
671; the Midland Institute at Birming-
ham opened by, 708; serious illness of,
721, 722; great physical power of, 721;
his last speech at the Royal Academy
dinner, 732; his interview with the
Queen, 733; attends a levee of the Prince
of Wales, 733; his last illness, 748; his
death, 749; funeral of, 750; for his visits
to America, see America; for his visits
to Boulogne, see Boulogne; for his visits
to Broadstairs, see Broadstairs; for his
visits to Italy, see Italy; for his visits to
Paris, see Paris; for his visits to Switzer-
land, see Switzerland: see also, Criti-
cisms of; Editor, Dickens as an; Letters
of; Portraits of; Readings of; Theatri-
cal Performances of; as well as the Titles
of his several Books
Dickens, Mrs. Charles, marriage of, 3;
visit of, to America, 53; at Rome, 134;
accident to, 211, 222; at Malvern, 231;
present to, at Birmingham, 284; and see
12, 92, 244, 245; and Letters
Dickens, Mr. Charles, jun., birth of, 4;
nickname of, 75; at Eton, 210, 232, 236,
249, 251; at Leipsic, 283, 294, 300; at
Barings', 411; goes to China, 496; marri-
age of, 566; on "All the Year Round,'
708, 711; and see 218, 227, 229, 249, 307,
327, 350, 372, 379, 392, 477, 496, 502,
515, 523, 543, 724; letters to, 644, 645,
660
Dickens, Miss, nickname of, 75, 124; ill-
nesses of, 340, 491; accident to, 507;
and see 312, 443, 451, 454, 474, 477, 490,
496, 497, 512, 524, 536, 545, 548, 561, 689,
737; and Letters
Dickens, Miss Kate, nickname of, 75;
marriage of, 490, 496; illness of, 614;
and see 306, 312, 410, 411, 474, 576, 711,
735, 748; letters to, 170, 485
Dickens, Mr. Walter, nickname of, 75;
goes to India, 417, 431; attached to the
42nd Highlanders, 497, 543; death of,
566, 569; and see 260, 296, 350, 375
Dickens, Mr. Frank, nickname of, 124;
letter of, to Dickens, 481; in India, 566,
569; and see 496, 502, 507, 516, 543
Dickens, Mr. Alfred, at Wimbledon School,
501; settled in Australia, 653; and see
611, 696, 720, 731; letter to, 743
Dickens, Mr. Sydney, birth of, 162; nick-
names of, 163, 501; death of, 163; story
of, 218; a naval cadet, 504-506, 522, 535;
on board H.M.S. Orlando, 537; and see
301, 312, 321, 339, 496, 499, 501, 502, 504,
543, 562, 587, 605, 629, 636, 729
Dickens, Mr. Henry, entered at Trinity
Hall, Cambridge, 653; goes to Cambridge,
698; wins a scholarship, 724; entered at
Temple, 735; and see 312, 339, 543, 553,
605, 654, 697, 708, 711, 715, 749; see
Letters
Dickens, Mr. Edward, nicknames of, 308,
312, 320; goes to Australia, 653; Dickens'
love for, 697, 698; and see 332, 377, 387,
397, 400, 412, 452, 465, 467, 480, 482, 553,
559, 696, 720, 722, 731, 743; letter to 705-
707
Dickens, Dora, birth of, 210; death of,
232, 245
Dickens, Mr. Alfred, sen., 559
Dickens Mrs. Augustus, 717
Dickens, Miss Fanny; see Mrs. Burnett
Dickens, Mr. Frederick, 15
Dickens, Mr. John, 232, 243, 399, 590
Dickens, Mrs. John, 21, 25
Dickens, Miss Letitia; see Mrs. Henry
Austin
Dickenson, Captain, 578, 583
Dickson, Mr. David, 85; letter to, 92
Dietzman, Mr. S. A., letter to, 34
Dilke, Mr., 417; letter to, 423
Dillon, Mr. C., 446
Dinner, a search for a, 313; ladies at public
dinners, 111
Dissent, Dickens' views on, 43
"Doctor Marigold," reading of, 600; see
also 578, 589, 593, 595
Dogs, Dickens', 64, 116, 482, 487, 491, 504,
528, 533, 549, 562, 587, 591, 593-595, 608,
612; a plague of, 280; stories of, 116, 331,
411, 593, 668-670, 689, 693
Dolby, Mr. George, 594, 611, 643, 644, 647-
651, 654, 655, 657, 658, 660, 663, 665, 670-
673, 674, 676, 682, 685, 690
Dolby, Madame Sainton, letter to 628
"Dombey and Son," 147, 162, 171, 180;
success of, 153, 168; sale of, 156, 159;
see also 165
D'Orsay, Count, 44, 109, 110, 127, 128, 133,
140, 163, 238
Dream, an absurd, 97
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