455;
theatre at, i. 138;
reading at, iii. 263.

_Bride of Lammermoor_ (Scott's), composition of the, iii. 339, 340.

British Museum reading-room, frequented by Dickens, i. 90.

Broadstairs, Dickens at, i. 136, 137, 176, 204, 277-283,
ii. 55, 214 note, 387-389, 405-421, 422-424, 436-441;
_Nickleby_ completed at, i. 176;
Dickens's house at, i. 205;
writing _American Notes_ at, ii. 23;
pony-chaise accident, ii. 418, 419;
smuggling at, ii. 439.

Brobity's (Mr.) snuff-box, iii. 297.

Brooklyn (New York), scene at, iii. 411;
readings in Mr. Ward Beecher's chapel, iii. 417.

Brougham (Lord), in Paris, ii. 316, 317;
the "_Punch_ people" and, ii. 469.

Browne (H. K.) chosen to illustrate _Pickwick_, i. 115;
accompanies Dickens and his wife to Flanders, i. 135;
failure of, in a _Dombey_ illustration, ii. 354, 355
(but see 348, 349);
sketch by, for Micawber, ii. 435;
his sketch of Skimpole, iii. 53.

Browning's (R. B.) _Blot on the 'Scutcheon_, Dickens's opinion of,
ii. 46.

Bruce (Knight), ii. 97.

Brunel (Isambard), ii. 469.

Buckingham Palace, Dickens at, iii. 508.

Buffalo (U. S.), reading at, iii. 432.

Buller (Charles), ii. 53.

Burdett (Sir Francis), advocacy of the poor, i. 250.

Burns festival, Prof. Wilson's speech at the, ii. 136.

Buss (Mr.), _Pickwick_ illustrations by, i. 115.

Byron's (Lord) Ada, ii. 469.

CA IRA, the revolutionary tune of, iii. 129.

Cambridge, reading at, iii. 317.

Cambridge (U. S.) and Boston contrasted, iii. 390;
the Webster murder at, iii. 402, 403.

Camden-town, Dickens with Mrs. Roylance at, i. 55.

Campbell (Lord), i. 322 note;
on the writings of Dickens, iii. 72 and note;
death of, iii. 247 note.

Canada, emigrants in, ii. 28, 29.

Canal-boat journeys in America, i. 358-380;
a day's routine on, i. 366, 367;
disagreeables of, i. 367;
a pretty scene on board, i. 390-392.

Cannibalism, an approach to, ii. 326.

Cannon-row, Westminster, incident at public-house in, i. 63.

Canterbury, reading at, iii. 264.

Car-driver, an Irish, iii. 225, 226 note.

Carlyle (Lord), ii. 469.

Carlisle (Bishop of) and Colenso, iii. 248 note.

Carlyle (Thomas), ii. 110, 135, 160, 162, 174;
a strange profane story, i. 130;
on international copyright, i. 332-334;
Dickens's admiration of, i. 334 (and