Austin, Mrs., letter to, 214 Author, dreams of an, 55; penalties of an, 168 Babbage, Mr. Charles, letter to, 69 Bairr, Mrs., 146 Bath, a, abroad, 144; at Naples, 155 "Battle of Life, The," the drama of, 87; Dickens on, 102 Baylis, Mr., letter to, 212 Bear, Mr., 299 Beard, Mr., 9 Begging-letter Writers, Dickens on, 267 "Bentley's Miscellany," Dickens's connection with, 12 Benzon, Mrs., 199 Biliousness, an effect of, 87 Birmingham, meeting of Polytechnic Institution at, 64; the Institute at, 158 Birthday greeting, a, 226 "Black and White," Fechter in Wilkie Collins's play of, 277 "Bleak House," 140 Blessington, the Countess of, 68; letters to, 17, 65, 70, 74, 75, 89 Blue-stockings, Dickens on, 18 Boulogne, Dickens at, 140, 141, 161 Bouncer, Mrs., Miss Dickens's dog, 216, 255 Bowring, Sir John, letters to, 193, 295 Boy, the Magnetic, 18 Boyle, Miss Mary, 113; letter to, 220 Braham, Mr., 1-3 Braham, Mrs., 3 Breakfast, a, aboard ship, 251 Broadstairs, description of, 53; life at, 54, 125; a wreck at, 129, 131 Brougham, Lord, 46 Browning, Mr. Robert, letter to, 227 Buckstone, Mr., letter to, 296 Bulwer, Sir Edward Lytton, letter to, 62; and see Lytton, Sir Edward Bulwer, and Lytton, Lord Butler, Mrs., 85 Calculation, a long, 43 Captain, a sea, 47 "Captives, The," Dickens's criticism on Lord Lytton's play of, 241 Carlyle, Mr. Thomas, 28 Carlyle, Mrs., 179 Celeste, Madame, 168 Cerjat, M. de, 148 Chapman, Mr. Edward, letters to, 14, 91 Chapman, Mr. Frederic, letter to, 294 Chappell, Mr. T., 277; letter to, 279 Charity, a vote for a, 108 Cheri, Rose, 90 Children, Dickens on the death of, 170 "Child's History of England, A," 237 "Chimes, The," Dickens at work on, 71; his interest in, 71 Chorley, Mr. Henry F., letters to, 190, 213, 216, 222, 231 Christening, a boisterous, 261 "Christmas Carol, The," Dickens at work on, 59, 63; success of, 60 Christmas keeping, 60 _Chronicle, The Evening_, Dickens's connection with, 5 Clark, Mr. L. Gaylord, letter to, 19 Clark, Mr. W. Gaylord, 19 Clarke, Mrs. Cowden, 264; and see Letters Clifford, Hon. Mrs., 271 Cobden, Mr. Richard, 84 Collins, Mr. Charles, 292 Collins, Mr. Wilkie, 142, 148, 198, 233, 244, 258; letter to, 171 Conjurer, Dickens as a, 41 Conolly, Mr., 160 Cookesley, Mr., 109 Copyright, Dickens on international, 28, 33, 44, 102, 237, 263, 293 Corn Laws, the Repeal of the, 84 Cornwall, a trip to, 39 Costello, Mr., 101 Coutts, Miss, 128, 132, 148 Covent Garden Opera, commencement of the, 86 Criticism, on Dickens's opera, 1; Dickens on American, 44; on art, 77; Dickens's appreciation of Thackeray's, 165; by Chorley on Dickens, 223 Cruikshank, Mr. George, 101 Cullenford, Mr., 88 _Daily News, The_, first issue of, 84