8

Eliot, Sir John, Dickens on Forster's life of, ii. 215

Elliotson, Dr., i. 37, 149, ii. 99

Elton, Mr., i. 85, 92

Elwin, Rev. W., ii. 136, 151

Ely, Miss, letter to, i. 153

Emerson, Mr., ii. 306

Emery, Mr., i. 429

England, state of, in 1855, i. 391;
politically, i. 406

Epitaph, Dickens's, on a little child, i. 68

Executions, Dickens on public, i. 209, 212

Exhibition, an infant school at the, i. 257

Eytinge, Mr., ii. 405

Fairy Tales, Dickens on, i. 307

"Faust," Gounod's, ii. 191, 193

Fechter, Charles, ii. 171, 177, 187, 193, 201, 219, 270, 386; and
see Letters

Felton, Mr., ii. 85

Ferguson, Sir William, ii. 246, 247

Feval, Paul, ii. 183, 192

Fielding, Henry, i. 394

Fields, Cyrus W., ii. 85, 308, 344, 361, 364, 379, 405

Fields, Mrs., ii. 306, 308, 319, 344, 361, 364, 367, 379, 405

Fildes, S. L., ii. 432, 447;
letter to, ii. 435

Finlay, F. D., ii. 406;
letters to, ii. 297, 389, 408

Fitzgerald, Mrs., ii. 285

Fitzgerald, Percy, ii. 187, 397;
and see Letters

Flunkeydom, scholastic, ii. 68

Forgues, M., i. 415, 421

Forster, Miss, ii. 327

Forster, John, i. 7, 10, 134, 143, 225, 240, 268, 428; ii. 108, 130,
265;
and see Letters

Franklin, Sir John, i. 373

Freake, Mr. and Mrs., ii. 446

French portraits of the English, i. 175

Friday, Dickens's lucky day, i. 414, 429

Frith, W. P., ii. 84, 93, 385, 418;
letters to, i. 79; ii. 439

Frost, the great, of 1861, ii. 139

Funerals, Dickens on state, i. 290; ii. 385

Gad's Hill, purchase of, i. 377, 378, 414;
Dickens takes possession of, ii. 3;
his childish impressions of, ii. 8;
improvements in, ii. 107, 373, 406, 446;
sports at, ii. 205;
cricket club at, ii. 356;
letters concerning, i. 384, 410, 429; ii. 15, 18, 25, 28, 49, 106,
119, 227

Gaskell, Mrs., i. 214;
and see Letters

Germany, esteem felt for Dickens in, i. 32

Ghost, stalking a, ii. 131

Gibson, M., i. 315; ii. 121

Gibson, Mr. and Mrs. Milner, ii. 431

Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., ii. 401

Goldsmith, Oliver, Dickens on Forster's Life of, i. 188;
on the works of, i. 380

Gordon, Andrew, ii. 131

Gordon, Mr. Sheriff, ii. 164

"Great Expectations," commenced, ii. 108, 136;
letters concerning, ii. 128, 133, 140, 142, 143, 151

Grief, the perver