tage at, rented by Dickens, ii. 51.

_Fine Old English Gentleman_, political squib by Dickens, i. 278,
279.

Fireflies in Italy, ii. 196, and note.

Fires in America, frequency of, iii. 399, 400.

Fitzgerald (Percy), iii. 218;
a contributor in _All the Year Round_, iii. 245;
personal liking of Dickens for, iii. 495.

"Fix," a useful word in America, i. 370.

Flanders, Dickens's trip to, i. 135.

Fletcher, (Angus), i. 254, 263, 274;
stay of, with Dickens at Broadstairs, i. 228;
anecdotes of, i. 262, 263, 264 note, 269 (and see ii. 113, 120,
144, 182, 193, 194 note);
pencil sketch by, of the Villa Bagnerello at Albaro, ii. 121;
death of, ii. 194 note.

Flies, plague of, at Lausanne, ii. 244, 245 note.

Fonblanque (Albany), i. 113, ii. 53, 162;
wit of, ii. 175, 467, iii. 349.

Footman, a meek, ii. 194.

Fortescue (Miss), ii. 96.

_Fortnightly Review_, Mr. Lewes's critical essay on Dickens in,
iii. 332-338.

Fowls, eccentric, iii. 251, 252.

Fox (William Johnson), ii. 53.

Fox-under-the-hill (Strand), reminiscence of, i. 62.

Franklin (Lady), iii. 519.

Fraser (Peter), ii. 475.

Freemasons' Hall, banquet to Dickens at, iii. 324.

Freemasons' secret, a, ii. 440.

Free-trade, Lord "Gobden" and, ii. 312.

French and Americans contrasted, ii. 322.

Frescoes, perishing, ii. 119;
at the Palazzo Peschiere, ii. 140 note, 141;
Maclise's, for the Houses of Parliament, iii. 536 note.

Friday, important incidents of Dickens's life connected with,
ii. 441, iii. 205, 419, &c.

Frith (W. P.), portrait of Dickens by, iii. 238.

Funeral, scene at a, ii. 31-33;
an English, in Italy, ii. 193.

Furnival's inn, room in, where the first page of _Pickwick_ was
written, iii, 528.

GADSHILL PLACE, a vision of boyhood at, i. 24 (and see iii. 204);
Dick's tomb at, iii. 117 note;
first description of, iii. 202;
sketch of porch at, iii. 204;
purchase of, iii. 205;
antecedents of, iii. 207;
improvements and additions at, iii. 208-215;
sketch of Chalet at, iii. 212;
nightingales at, iii. 212;
Dickens's daily life at, iii. 215-222;
sketch of house and conservatory, iii. 216;
Study at, iii. 222;
games at, for the villagers, iii. 510, 511;
Dickens's last days at, iii. 539-542.

_Gambler's Life_, Lemaitre's acting in the, iii. 122-124.