| CHAPTER I. 1812-1822. |
| Pages 21-46. |
| Childhood. Æt. 1-10. |
| page |
| Birth at Landport in Portsea | 21 |
| Family of John Dickens | 22 |
| Powers of observation in children | 23 |
| Two years old | 23 |
| In London, æt. 2-3 | 23 |
| In Chatham, æt. 4-9 | 23 |
| Vision of boyhood | 24 |
| The queer small child | 25 |
| Mother’s teaching | 26 |
| Day-school in Rome Lane | 27 |
| Retrospects of childhood | 27 |
| David Copperfield and Charles Dickens | 28 |
| Access to small but good library | 29 |
| Tragedy-writing | 30 |
| Comic-song singing | 31 |
| Cousin James Lamert | 31 |
| First taken to theatre | 32 |
| At Mr. Giles’s school | 32 |
| Encored in the recitations | 33 |
| Boyish recollections | 33 |
| Birthplace of his fancy | 35 |
| Last night in Chatham | 35 |
| In London | 36 |
| First impressions | 36 |
| Bayham Street, Camden-town | 36 |
| Faculty of early observation | 37 |
| His description of his father | 38 |
| Small theatre made for him | 38 |
| Sister Fanny at Royal Academy of Music | 39 |
| Walks about London | 39 |
| Biography and autobiography | 40 |
| At his godfather’s and his uncle’s | 41 |
| First efforts at description | 42 |
| “Res Angusta Domi” | 42 |
| Mother exerting herself | 43 |
| Father in the Marshalsea | 43 |
| Visit to the prison | 44 |
| Captain Porter | 44 |
| Old friends disposed of | 45 |
| At the pawnbroker’s | 46 |
| CHAPTER II. 1822-1824. |
| Pages 47-70. |
| Hard Experiences in Boyhood. Æt. 10-12. |
| Mr. Dilke’s half-crown | 48 |
| Story of boyhood told | 48 |
| D. C. and C. D. | 48 |
| Enterprise of the cousins Lamert | 49 |
| First employment in life | 51 |
| Blacking-warehouse | 51 |
| A poor little drudge | 52 |
| Bob Fagin and Poll Green | 52 |
| “Facilis Descensus” | 52 |
| Crushed hopes | 53 |
| The home in Gower Street | 53 |
| Regaling alamode | 54 |
| Home broken up | 54 |
| At Mrs. Roylance’s in Camden-town | 55 |
| Sundays in prison | 55 |
| Pudding-shops and coffee-shops | 56 |
| What was and might have been | 57 |
| Thomas and Harry | 58 |
| A lodging in Lant Street | 59 |
| Meals in the Marshalsea | 59 |
| C. D. and the Marchioness | 60 |
| Originals of Garland family | 60 |
| Adventure with Bob Fagin | 61 |
| Saturday-night shows | 61 |
| Appraised officially | 62 |
| Publican and wife at Cannon Row | 63 |
| Marshalsea incident in Copperfield | 64 |
| Incident as it occurred | 65 |
| Materials for Pickwick | 66 |
| Sister Fanny’s musical prize | 66 |
| From Hungerford Stairs to Chandos Street | 67 |
| Father’s quarrel with James Lamert | 68 |
| Quits the warehouse | 68 |
| Bitter associations of servitude | 69 |
| What became of the blacking business | 70 |
| CHAPTER III. 1824-1830. |
| Pages 71-95. |
| School-Days and Start In Life. Æt. 12-18. |
| Outcome of boyish trials | 71 |
| Disadvantage in later years | 72 |
| Advantages | 73 |
| Next move in life | 74 |
| Wellington House Academy | 74 |
| Revisited and described | 75 |
| Letter from a schoolfellow | 76 |
| C. D.’s recollections of school | 77 |
| Schoolfellow’s recollections of C. D. | 77 |
| Fac-simile of schoolboy letter | 79 |
| Daniel Tobin | 81 |
| Another schoolfellow’s recollections | 82 |
| Writing tales and getting up plays | 83 |
| Master Beverley scene-painter | 84 |
| Street-acting | 84 |
| The schoolfellows after forty years | 85 |
| Smallness of the world | 86 |
| In attorneys’ offices | 87 |
| At minor theatres | 88 |
| The father on the son’s education | 89 |
| Studying short-hand | 90 |
| In British Museum reading-room | 90 |
| Preparing for the gallery | 91 |
| D. C. for C. D. | 91 |
| A real Dora in 1829 | 92 |
| The same Dora in 1855 | 93 |
| Dora changed into Flora | 94 |
| Ashes of youth and hope | 95 |
| CHAPTER IV. 1831-1835. |
| Pages 96-106. |
| Reporters’ Gallery and Newspaper Literature. |
| Æt. 19-23. |
| Reporting for True Sun | 96 |
| First seen by me | 97 |
| Reporting for Mirror and Chronicle | 97 |
| First published piece | 97 |
| Discipline and experiences of reporting | 98 |
| Life as a reporter | 99 |
| John Black | 100 |
| Mr. Thomas Beard | 101 |
| A letter to his editor | 102 |
| Incident of reporting days | 102 |
| The same more correctly told | 103 |
| Origin of “Boz” | 104 |
| Captain Holland | 104 |
| Mr. George Hogarth | 105 |
| Sketches in Evening Chronicle | 105 |
| C. D.’s first hearty appreciator | 106 |
| CHAPTER V. 1836. |
| Pages 107-115. |
| First Book, and Origin of Pickwick. Æt. 24. |
| Sketches by Boz | 107 |
| Fancy-piece by N. P. Willis: a poor English author | 107 |
| Start of Pickwick | 108 |
| Marriage to Miss Hogarth | 108 |
| First connection with Chapman & Hall | 109 |
| Mr. Seymour’s part in Pickwick | 109 |
| Letters relating thereto | 110 |
| C. D.’s own account | 110 |
| False claims refuted | 111 |
| Pickwick’s original, his figure and his name | 112 |
| First sprightly runnings of genius | 113 |
| The Sketches characterized | 114 |
| Mr. Seymour’s death | 115 |
| New illustrator chosen | 115 |
| Mr. Hablot K. Browne | 115 |
| C. D. leaves the gallery | 116 |
| Strange Gentleman and Village Coquettes | 116 |
| CHAPTER VI. 1837. |
| Pages 117-140. |
| Writing the Pickwick Papers. Æt. 25. |
| First letter from him | 117 |
| As he was thirty-five years ago | 118 |
| Mrs. Carlyle and Leigh Hunt | 119 |
| Birth of eldest son | 119 |
| From Furnival’s Inn to Doughty Street | 119 |
| A long-remembered sorrow | 120 |
| I visit him | 120 |
| Hasty compacts with publishers | 121 |
| Self-sold into quasi-bondage | 121 |
| Agreements for editorship and writing | 121 |
| Mr. Macrone’s scheme to reissue Sketches | 122 |
| Attempts to prevent it | 123 |
| Exorbitant demand | 123 |
| Impatience of suspense | 123 |
| Purchase advised | 124 |
| Oliver Twist | 125 |
| Characters real to himself | 125 |
| Sense of responsibility for his writings | 126 |
| Criticism that satisfied him | 126 |
| Help given with his proofs | 126 |
| Writing Pickwick, Nos. 14 and 15 | 127 |
| Scenes in a debtors’ prison | 128 |
| A recollection of Smollett | 128 |
| Reception of Pickwick | 129 |
| A popular rage | 129 |
| Mr. Carlyle’s “dreadful” story | 130 |
| Secrets of success | 130 |
| Pickwick inferior to later books | 131 |
| Exception for Sam Weller and Mr. Pickwick | 131 |
| Personal habits of C. D. | 132 |
| Reliefs after writing | 133 |
| Natural discontents | 134 |
| The early agreements | 134 |
| Tale to follow Oliver Twist | 135 |
| Compromise with Mr. Bentley | 135 |
| Trip to Flanders | 135 |
| First visit to Broadstairs | 136 |
| Piracies of Pickwick | 137 |
| A sufferer from agreements | 138 |
| First visit to Brighton | 138 |
| What he is doing with Oliver Twist | 139 |
| Reading De Foe | 139 |
| “No Thoroughfare” | 139 |
| Proposed help to Macready | 140 |
| CHAPTER VII. 1837-1838. |
| Pages 141-151. |
| Between Pickwick and Nickleby. Æt. 25-26. |
| Edits Life of Grimaldi | 141 |
| His own opinion of it | 142 |
| An objection answered | 142 |
| His recollections of 1823 | 142 |
| Completion of Pickwick | 143 |
| A purpose long entertained | 144 |
| Relations with Chapman & Hall | 144 |
| Payments made for Pickwick | 145 |
| Agreement for Nicholas Nickleby | 145 |
| Oliver Twist characterized | 146 |
| Reasons for acceptance with every class | 146 |
| Nightmare of an agreement | 147 |
| Letter to Mr. Bentley | 147 |
| Proposal as to Barnaby Rudge | 148 |
| Result of it | 148 |
| Birth of eldest daughter | 149 |
| Young Gentlemen and Young Couples | 149 |
| First number of Nicholas Nickleby | 150 |
| 2d of April, 1838 | 150 |
| CHAPTER VIII. 1838. |
| Pages 152-164. |
| Oliver Twist. Æt. 26. |
| Interest in characters at close of Oliver | 152 |
| Writing of the last chapter | 153 |
| Cruikshank illustrations | 154 |
| Etchings for last volume | 154 |
| How executed | 154 |
| Slander respecting them exposed | 155 |
| Falsehood ascribed to the artist | 155 |
| Reputation of the new tale | 156 |
| Its workmanship | 157 |
| Social evils passed away | 157 |
| Living only in what destroyed them | 157 |
| Chief design of the story | 158 |
| Its principal figures | 158 |
| Comedy and tragedy of crime | 159 |
| Reply to attacks | 160 |
| Le Sage, Gay, and Fielding | 160 |
| Likeness to them | 161 |
| Again the shadow of Barnaby | 161 |
| Appeal to Mr. Bentley for delay | 161 |
| A very old story | 162 |
| “Sic vos non vobis” | 162 |
| Barnaby given up by Mr. Bentley | 163 |
| Resignation of Miscellany | 163 |
| Parent parting from child | 164 |
| CHAPTER IX. 1838-1839. |
| Pages 165-179. |
| Nicholas Nickleby. |
| Æt. 26-27. |
| Doubts of success dispelled | 165 |
| Realities of English life | 166 |
| Characters self-revealed | 167 |
| Miss Bates and Mrs. Nickleby | 167 |
| Smike and Dotheboys | 167 |
| A favorite type of humanity | 168 |
| Sydney Smith and Newman Noggs | 168 |
| Kindliness and breadth of humor | 169 |
| Goldsmith and Smollett | 169 |
| Early and later books | 170 |
| Biographical not critical | 171 |
| Characteristics | 171 |
| Materials for the book | 171 |
| Birthday letter | 172 |
| A difficulty at starting | 172 |
| Never in advance with Nickleby | 173 |
| Always with later books | 173 |
| Enjoying a play | 174 |
| At the Adelphi | 174 |
| Writing Mrs. Nickleby’s love-scene | 175 |
| Sydney Smith vanquished | 175 |
| Winding up the story | 176 |
| Parting from creatures of his fancy | 177 |
| The Nickleby dinner | 178 |
| Persons present | 178 |
| The Maclise portrait | 178 |
| CHAPTER X. 1838-1839. |
| Pages 180-190. |
| During and After Nickleby. Æt. 26-27. |
| The Cottage at Twickenham | 180 |
| Daniel Maclise | 180 |
| Ainsworth and other friends | 181 |
| Mr. Stanley of Alderley | 182 |
| Petersham cottage | 182 |
| Childish enjoyments | 182 |
| Writes a farce for Covent Garden | 183 |
| Entered at the Middle Temple | 183 |
| We see Wainewright in Newgate | 184 |
| Oliver Twist and the Quarterly | 184 |
| Hood’s Up the Rhine | 185 |
| Shakspeare Society | 185 |
| Birth of second daughter | 186 |
| House-hunting | 186 |
| Barnaby at his tenth page | 186 |
| Letter from Exeter | 187 |
| A landlady and her friends | 187 |
| A home for his father and mother | 188 |
| Autobiographical | 189 |
| Visit to an upholsterer | 189 |
| Visit from the same | 190 |
| CHAPTER XI. 1839. |
| Pages 191-199. |
| New Literary Project. Æt. 27-28. |
| Thoughts for the future | 191 |
| Doubts of old serial form | 192 |
| Suggestion for his publishers | 192 |
| My mediation with them | 193 |
| Proposed weekly publication | 193 |
| Design of it | 193 |
| Old favorites to be revived | 194 |
| Subjects to be dealt with | 194 |
| Chapters on Chambers | 194 |
| Gog and Magog Relaxations | 194 |
| Savage Chronicles | 195 |
| Others as well as himself to write | 195 |
| Travels to Ireland and America in view | 195 |
| Stipulation as to property and payments | 196 |
| Great hopes of success | 197 |
| Assent of his publishers | 197 |
| No planned story | 197 |
| Terms of agreement | 197 |
| Notion for his hero | 198 |
| A name hit upon | 199 |
| Sanguine of the issue | 199 |
| CHAPTER XII. 1840-1841. |
| Pages 200-216. |
| The Old Curiosity Shop. Æt. 28-29. |
| Visit to Walter Landor | 200 |
| First thought of Little Nell | 200 |
| Hopeful of Master Humphrey | 201 |
| A title for the child-story | 202 |
| First sale of Master Humphrey’s Clock | 202 |
| Its original plan abandoned | 203 |
| Reasons for this | 203 |
| To be limited to one story | 203 |
| Disadvantages of weekly publication | 204 |
| A favorite description | 204 |
| In Bevis Marks for Sampson Brass | 205 |
| At Lawn House, Broadstairs | 205 |
| Dedication of his first volume to Rogers | 205 |
| Chapters 43-45 | 206 |
| Dick Swiveller and the Marchioness | 207 |
| Masterpiece of kindly fun | 207 |
| Closing of the tale | 208 |
| Effect upon the writer | 208 |
| Making-believe very much | 209 |
| The end approaching | 209 |
| The realities of fiction | 209 |
| Death of Little Nell | 210 |
| My share in the close | 211 |
| A suggestion adopted by him | 211 |
| Success of the story | 211 |
| Useful lessons | 212 |
| Its mode of construction | 213 |
| Character and characteristics | 213 |
| The art of it | 213 |
| A recent tribute | 214 |
| Harte’s “Dickens in Camp” | 215 |
| CHAPTER XIII. 1840. |
| Pages 217-231. |
| Devonshire Terrace and Broadstairs. Æt. 28. |
| A good saying | 217 |
| Landor mystified | 218 |
| The mirthful side of Dickens | 218 |
| Extravagant flights | 218 |
| Humorous despair | 219 |
| Riding exercise | 220 |
| First of the ravens | 220 |
| The groom Topping | 220 |
| The smoky chimneys | 221 |
| Juryman at an inquest | 222 |
| Practical humanity | 222 |
| Publication of Clock’s first number | 222 |
| Transfer of Barnaby settled | 223 |
| A true prediction | 224 |
| Revisiting old scenes | 224 |
| C. D. to Chapman & Hall | 224 |
| Terms of sale of Barnaby | 225 |
| A gift to a friend | 226 |
| Final escape from bondage | 226 |
| Published libels about him | 227 |
| Said to be demented | 227 |
| To be insane and turned Catholic | 228 |
| Begging letter-writers | 228 |
| A donkey asked for | 228 |
| Mr. Kindheart | 229 |
| Friendly meetings | 229 |
| Social talk | 229 |
| Reconciling friends | 230 |
| Hint for judging men | 230 |
| CHAPTER XIV. 1841. |
| Pages 232-248. |
| Barnaby Rudge. Æt. 29. |
| Advantage in beginning Barnaby | 232 |
| Birth of fourth child and second son | 233 |
| The Raven | 233 |
| A loss in the family | 234 |
| Grip’s death | 235 |
| C. D. describes his illness | 235 |
| Family mourners | 236 |
| Apotheosis by Maclise | 237 |
| Grip the second | 239 |
| The inn at Chigwell | 239 |
| A Clock Dinner | 240 |
| Lord Jeffrey in London | 240 |
| The Lamplighter | 240 |
| The Pic Nic Papers | 241 |
| Character of Lord George Gordon | 241 |
| A doubtful fancy | 242 |
| Interest in new labor | 243 |
| Constraints of weekly publication | 243 |
| The prison-riots | 244 |
| A serious illness | 244 |
| Close of Barnaby | 244 |
| Character of the tale | 245 |
| Defects in the plot | 245 |
| The No-Popery riots | 245 |
| Descriptive power displayed | 246 |
| Leading persons in story | 247 |
| Mr. Dennis the hangman | 248 |
| CHAPTER XV. 1841. |
| Pages 249-262. |
| Public Dinner in Edinburgh. Æt. 29. |
| His son Walter Landor | 249 |
| Dies in Calcutta (1863) | 250 |
| C. D. and the new poor-law | 250 |
| Moore and Rogers | 251 |
| Jeffrey’s praise of Little Nell | 251 |
| Resolve to visit Scotland | 251 |
| Edinburgh dinner proposed | 252 |
| Sir David Wilkie’s death | 252 |
| Peter Robertson | 253 |
| Professor Wilson | 253 |
| A fancy of Scott | 254 |
| Lionization made tolerable | 254 |
| Thoughts of home | 255 |
| The dinner and speeches | 255 |
| His reception | 256 |
| Wilson’s eulogy | 256 |
| Home yearnings | 257 |
| Freedom of city voted to him | 257 |
| Speakers at the dinner | 257 |
| Politics and party influences | 258 |
| Whig jealousies | 259 |
| At the theatre | 260 |
| Hospitalities | 260 |
| Moral of it all | 260 |
| Proposed visit to the Highlands | 261 |
| Maclise and Macready | 261 |
| Guide to the Highlands | 262 |
| Mr. Angus Fletcher (Kindheart) | 262 |
| CHAPTER XVI. 1841. |
| Pages 263-276. |
| Adventures in the Highlands. Æt. 29. |
| A fright | 264 |
| Fletcher’s eccentricities | 264 |
| The Trossachs | 264 |
| The traveler’s guide | 265 |
| A comical picture | 265 |
| Highland accommodation | 265 |
| Grand scenery | 266 |
| Changes in route | 267 |
| A waterfall | 267 |
| Entrance to Glencoe | 267 |
| The pass of Glencoe | 268 |
| Loch Leven | 269 |
| A July evening | 269 |
| Postal service at Loch Earn Head | 269 |
| The maid of the inn | 270 |
| Impressions of Glencoe | 270 |
| An adventure | 271 |
| Torrents swollen with rain | 271 |
| Dangerous traveling | 272 |
| Incidents and accidents | 272 |
| Broken-down bridge | 273 |
| A fortunate resolve | 273 |
| Post-boy in danger | 274 |
| The rescue | 274 |
| Narrow escape | 274 |
| A Highland inn and inmates | 275 |
| English comfort at Dalmally | 275 |
| Dinner at Glasgow proposed | 276 |
| Eagerness for home | 276 |
| CHAPTER XVII. 1841. |
| Pages 277-283. |
| Again at Broadstairs. Æt. 29. |
| Peel and his party | 277 |
| Getting very radical | 278 |
| Thoughts of colonizing | 278 |
| Political squib by C. D. | 278 |
| Fine old English Tory times | 279 |
| Mesmerism | 280 |
| Metropolitan prisons | 280 |
| Book by a workman | 280 |
| An August day by the sea | 281 |
| Another story in prospect | 281 |
| Clock discontents | 281 |
| New adventure | 282 |
| Agreement for it signed | 282 |
| The book that proved to be Chuzzlewit | 283 |
| Peel and Lord Ashley | 283 |
| Visions of America | 283 |
| CHAPTER XVIII. 1841. |
| Pages 284-291. |
| Eve of the Visit To America. Æt. 29. |
| Greetings from America | 284 |
| Reply to Washington Irving | 284 |
| Difficulties in the way | 285 |
| Resolve to go | 286 |
| Wish to revisit scenes of boyhood | 286 |
| Proposed book of travel | 286 |
| Arrangements for the journey | 287 |
| Impatience of suspense | 287 |
| Resolve to leave the children | 288 |
| Mrs. Dickens reconciled | 288 |
| A grave illness | 288 |
| Domestic griefs | 289 |
| The old sorrow | 289 |
| At Windsor | 290 |
| Son Walter’s christening | 290 |
| At Liverpool with the travelers | 291 |
| CHAPTER XIX. 1842. |
| Pages 292-309. |
| First Impressions of America. Æt. 30. |
| Rough passage | 293 |
| A steamer in a storm | 293 |
| Resigned to the worst | 293 |
| Of himself and fellow-travelers | 294 |
| The Atlantic from deck | 294 |
| The ladies’ cabin | 294 |
| Its occupants | 295 |
| Card-playing on the Atlantic | 295 |
| Ship-news | 296 |
| A wager | 297 |
| Halifax harbor | 297 |
| Ship aground | 297 |
| Captain Hewitt | 298 |
| Speaker of House of Assembly | 299 |
| Ovation to C. D. | 299 |
| Arrival at Boston | 300 |
| Incursion of editors | 300 |
| At Tremont House | 300 |
| The welcome | 301 |
| Deputations | 301 |
| Dr. Channing to C. D. | 302 |
| Public appearances | 302 |
| A secretary engaged | 303 |
| Bostonians | 303 |
| General characteristics | 304 |
| Personal notices | 304 |
| Perils of steamers | 305 |
| A home-thought | 305 |
| American institutions | 306 |
| How first impressed | 306 |
| Reasons for the greeting | 306 |
| What was welcomed in C. D. | 307 |
| Old World and New World | 308 |
| Daniel Webster as to C. D. | 308 |
| Channing as to C. D. | 308 |
| Subsequent disappointments | 309 |
| New York invitation to dinner | | Facing page 309. |
| Fac-similes of signatures |
| Additional fac-similes |
| New York invitation to ball |
| Fac-similes of signatures |
| Additional fac-similes |
| CHAPTER XX. 1842. |
| Pages 310-334. |
| Second Impressions of America. Æt. 30. |
| Second letter | 310 |
| International copyright | 311 |
| Third letter | 311 |
| The dinner at Boston | 312 |
| Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford | 313 |
| Queer traveling | 313 |
| Levees at Hartford and New Haven | 313 |
| At Wallingford | 314 |
| Serenades | 314 |
| Cornelius C. Felton | 315 |
| Payment of personal expenses declined | 315 |
| At New York | 315 |
| Irving and Colden | 315 |
| Description of the ball | 316 |
| Newspaper accounts | 317 |
| A phase of character | 317 |
| Opinion in America | 318 |
| International copyright | 318 |
| American authors in regard to it | 319 |
| Outcry against the nation’s guest | 319 |
| Declines to be silent on copyright | 319 |
| Speech at dinner | 320 |
| Irving in the chair | 320 |
| Chairman’s break-down | 321 |
| An incident afterwards in London | 321 |
| Results of copyright speeches | 322 |
| A bookseller’s demand for help | 322 |
| Suggestion for copyright memorial | 323 |
| Henry Clay’s opinion | 323 |
| Life in New York | 324 |
| Distresses of popularity | 324 |
| Intentions for future | 325 |
| Refusal of invitations | 325 |
| Going south and west | 325 |
| As to return | 326 |
| Dangers incident to steamers | 326 |
| Slavery | 327 |
| Ladies of America | 327 |
| Party conflicts | 328 |
| Non-arrival of Cunard steamer | 328 |
| Copyright petition for Congress | 328 |
| No hope of the Caledonia | 329 |
| A substitute for her | 330 |
| Anxiety as to letters | 330 |
| Of distinguished Americans | 330 |
| Hotel bills | 331 |
| Thoughts of the children | 331 |
| Acadia takes Caledonia’s place | 332 |
| Letter to C. D. from Carlyle | 332 |
| Carlyle on copyright | 332 |
| Argument against stealing | 333 |
| Rob Roy’s plan worth bettering | 334 |
| C. D. as to Carlyle | 334 |
| CHAPTER XXI. 1842. |
| Pages 335-357. |
| Philadelphia, Washington, and the South. Æt. 30. |
| At Philadelphia | 335 |
| Rule in printing letters | 335 |
| Promise as to railroads | 336 |
| Experience of them | 337 |
| Railway-cars | 337 |
| Charcoal stoves | 337 |
| Ladies’ cars | 338 |
| Spittoons | 338 |
| Massachusetts and New York | 339 |
| Police-cells and prisons | 339 |
| House of detention and inmates | 340 |
| Women and boy prisoners | 341 |
| Capital punishment | 342 |
| A house of correction | 342 |
| Four hundred single cells | 343 |
| Comparison with English prisons | 344 |
| Inns and landlords | 344 |
| At Washington | 344 |
| Hotel extortion | 345 |
| Philadelphia penitentiary | 345 |
| The solitary system | 345 |
| Solitary prisoners | 346 |
| Talk with inspectors | 346 |
| Bookseller Carey | 347 |
| Changes of temperature | 347 |
| Henry Clay | 348 |
| Proposed journeyings | 348 |
| Letters from England | 349 |
| Congress and Senate | 349 |
| Leading American statesmen | 349 |
| The people of America | 350 |
| Englishmen “located” there | 350 |
| “Surgit amari aliquid” | 351 |
| The copyright petition | 351 |
| At Richmond | 351 |
| Irving appointed to Spain | 352 |
| Experience of a slave city | 353 |
| Incidents of slave-life | 353 |
| Discussion with a slaveholder | 353 |
| Feeling of South to England | 354 |
| Levees at Richmond | 354 |
| One more banquet accepted | 355 |
| My gift of Shakspeare | 355 |
| Home letters and fancies | 356 |
| Self-reproach of a noble nature | 356 |
| Washington Irving’s leave-taking | 357 |
| CHAPTER XXII. 1842. |
| Pages 358-380. |
| Canal-Boat Journeys: bound Far West. Æt. 30. |
| Character in the letters | 358 |
| The Notes less satisfactory | 359 |
| Personal narrative in letters | 359 |
| The copyright differences | 360 |
| Social dissatisfactions | 360 |
| A fact to be remembered | 361 |
| Literary merits of the letters | 361 |
| Personal character portrayed | 362 |
| On board for Pittsburgh | 362 |
| Choicest passages of Notes | 362 |
| Queer stage-coach | 363 |
| Something revealed on the top | 364 |
| At Harrisburg | 364 |
| Treaties with Indians | 365 |
| Local legislatures | 365 |
| A levee | 365 |
| Morning and night in canal-boat | 366 |
| At and after breakfast | 366 |
| Making the best of it | 367 |
| Hardy habits | 368 |
| By rail across mountain | 368 |
| Mountain scenery | 369 |
| New settlements | 369 |
| Original of Eden in Chuzzlewit | 369 |
| A useful word | 370 |
| Party in America | 371 |
| Home news | 371 |
| Meets an early acquaintance | 372 |
| “Smallness of the world” | 372 |
| Queer customers at levees | 372 |
| Our anniversary | 373 |
| The Cincinnati steamer | 374 |
| Frugality in water and linen | 374 |
| Magnetic experiments | 375 |
| Life-preservers | 376 |
| Bores | 376 |
| Habits of neatness | 377 |
| Wearying for home | 377 |
| Another solitary prison | 378 |
| New terror to loneliness | 378 |
| Arrival at Cincinnati | 378 |
| Two judges in attendance | 379 |
| The city described | 379 |
| On the pavement | 380 |
| CHAPTER XXIII. 1842. |
| Pages 381-406. |
| The Far West: to Niagara Falls. Æt. 30. |
| Descriptions in letters and in Notes | 381 |
| Outline of westward travel | 382 |
| An Arabian-Night city | 383 |
| A temperance festival | 383 |
| A party at Judge Walker’s | 383 |
| The party from another view | 384 |
| Young lady’s description of C. D. | 384 |
| Mournful results of boredom | 385 |
| Down the Mississippi | 386 |
| Listening and watching | 386 |
| A levee at St. Louis | 386 |
| Compliments | 387 |
| Lord Ashburton’s arrival | 387 |
| Talk with a judge on slavery | 388 |
| A negro burnt alive | 388 |
| Feeling of slaves themselves | 389 |
| American testimony | 389 |
| Pretty little scene | 390 |
| A mother and her husband | 390 |
| The baby | 391 |
| St. Louis in sight | 392 |
| Meeting of wife and husband | 392 |
| Trip to a prairie | 393 |
| On the prairie at sunset | 393 |
| General character of scenery | 394 |
| The prairie described | 394 |
| Disappointment and enjoyment | 394 |
| Soirée at Planter’s House Inn | 395 |
| Good fare | 395 |
| No gray heads in St. Louis | 396 |
| Dueling | 396 |
| Mrs. Dickens as a traveler | 397 |
| From Cincinnati to Columbus | 397 |
| What a levee is like | 398 |
| From Columbus to Sandusky | 398 |
| The travelers alone | 399 |
| A log house inn | 400 |
| Making tidy | 400 |
| A monetary crisis | 400 |
| Americans not a humorous people | 401 |
| The only recreations | 401 |
| From Sandusky to Buffalo | 402 |
| On Lake Erie | 402 |
| Reception and consolation of a mayor | 403 |
| From Buffalo to Niagara | 403 |
| Nearing the Falls | 404 |
| The Horse-shoe | 404 |
| Effect upon him of Niagara | 405 |
| The old recollection | 405 |
| Looking forward | 406 |
| CHAPTER XXIV. 1842. |
| Pages 407-418. |
| Niagara and Montreal. Æt. 30. |
| Last two letters | 407 |
| Dickens vanquished | 407 |
| Obstacles to copyright | 408 |
| Two described | 408 |
| Value of literary popularity | 409 |
| Substitute for literature | 410 |
| The secretary described | 410 |
| His paintings | 411 |
| The lion and —— | 411 |
| Toryism of Toronto | 412 |
| Canadian attentions | 412 |
| Proposed theatricals | 413 |
| Last letter | 413 |
| The private play | 414 |
| Stage manager’s report | 414 |
| Bill of the performance | 415 |
| The lady performers | 417 |
| A touch of Crummles | 417 |
| Home | 418 |