Prince of Wales, the, 296 Prisons, Dickens on discipline in, 138 Pritchard the poisoner, 221 Procter, Mr. B. W., 253, 260; letter to, 208 Procter, Mrs., 179, 223, 260 Procter, Miss Adelaide, 223 Puffery, Dickens's hatred of, 140 Punishment of death, Dickens on the, 78 Purse, a theatrical, 73 Queen, the, Maclise and, 55; her reception of Longfellow, 261; and see 119, 121, 123, 299 Rainforth, Miss, 4 Reade, Mr. Charles, 233 Readings, 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, 278 Red tape, Dickens on, 176 Reform Bill, Dickens on the, 266 Reform meeting at Drury-lane Theatre, 165 Religion, Dickens on, 17 _Review_, _The North American_, 46; _The Edinburgh_, 43, 46, 57, 58, 78, 83 Robinson, Mr., 98, 100, 105 Robinson, Rev. Thomas, letter to, 16 Robson, Mr. F., 153, 172 "Roccabella," Dickens's opinion of Mr. Chorley's story of, 190 Roche, the courier, 146 Rogers, Mr. Samuel, 178 Rome, Dickens at, 76 Ross, Mr. John, 9 Ross, Mr. R. M., letter to, 226 Ross, Mr. T., letter to, 177 Royal Exchange, the, fire at, 10 Rusden, Mr.; see Letters Russell, Mr. George, 218 Russell, Lord John, 172, 288 _Russia_, s.s., the, 249, 276 Rye, Mr. W. B., letter to, 224 Sammins, Mr. W. L., letter to, 12 Sartoris, Mr. and Mrs., 157 _Satirist, The_, 45 Sausage, a questionable, 131 Scheffer, Ary, 192 Schools, Dickens on ragged, 58 Scotland, Dickens's love for the people of, 295 Scott, Sir Walter, extracts from the diary of, 11, 56 Serle, Mr., letter to, 263 Shakespeare, curatorship of house of, 104 Sheridan, 86 "Sketches of Young Gentlemen," by Dickens, 9 Slave-owners, Dickens on, 38 Smith, Mr. Albert, letter to, 186 Smith, Mr. Arthur, 186, 208; letter to, 187 Smith, Mr. H. P., letter to, 82 Speaking, Dickens on public, 214 Stage-manager, Dickens as a, 29, 100, 127 Stanfield, Mr. Clarkson, 39, 41, 54, 86, 232 Stansbury, Mr., 4 Staplehurst, the railway accident at, 264 Stone, Mr. Frank, 101, 117, 127; letters to, 129, 179 "Strange Story, A," Dickens's criticism on, 198, 204, 207, 210 "Studies of Sensation and Event," 69 Sturgis, Mr. Russell, letters to, 267, 272 Sumner, Mr., 42, 62 Sunday bands, 177 "Sunday under Three Heads," by Charles Dickens, 9 Switzerland, expedition to, 142-145; ascent of the Mer de Glace, 142; a hot bath in, 144; passage of the Simplon, 146; travellers in, 147; carriages in, 147 Sympathy, letters of, 19, 20, 170, 275 Tavistock House, 130 Temple, the, Dickens becomes a student at, 14 Tennent, Sir Emerson, 154, 273, 274 Tennent, Lady, 154