note;
earthquake at, ii. 283 note;
feminine smoking party, ii. 292;
the town revisited, iii. 77, 78.

Lawes (Rev. T. B.), club established by, at Rothamsted, iii. 244.

Layard (A. H.), iii. 83;
at Gadshill, iii. 510, 523.

Lazy Tour projected, iii. 170 (and see 351).

Lazzaroni, what they really are, ii. 187.

Leech (John) at Miss Kelly's theatre, ii. 210;
grave mistake by, in _Battle of Life_ illustration, ii. 310, 311;
fancy sketch of, ii. 381;
Dickens's opinion of his _Rising Generation_, ii. 414-418;
what he will be remembered for, ii. 417;
accident to, at Bonchurch, ii. 435;
at Boulogne, iii. 105;
death of, iii. 303 (and see 375).

Leeds, reading at, iii. 232.

Leeds Mechanics' Society, Dickens at meeting of the, ii. 390, 391.

_Legends and Lyrics_ (Adelaide Procter's), iii. 495 note.

Legerdemain in perfection, iii. 112-114 (and see 111, 112 note).

Leghorn, Dickens at, iii. 80, 81.

Legislatures, local, i. 365.

Lehmann (Frederic), iii. 218, 256.

Leigh (Percival), ii. 210.

Lemaitre (Frederic), acting of, iii. 122-124 (and see 521).

Lemon (Mark), ii. 210, 211, 263;
fancy sketch of, ii. 382;
acting with children, iii. 62;
death of, iii. 538.

Lemon (Mrs.), ii. 263.

Leslie (Charles Robert), iii. 126.

Letter-opening at the General Post-Office, ii. 108, 109.

Levees in the United States, i. 313, 347, 365, 373, 386, 398;
queer customers at, i. 373;
what they are like, i. 398.

Lever (Charles), tale by, in _All the Year Round_, iii. 245.

Lewes (George Henry), Dickens's regard for, ii. 475;
critical essay on Dickens, in the _Fortnightly Review_, noticed,
iii. 333-339.

Library, a gigantic, ii. 272, 273.

_Life of Christ_, written by Dickens for his children, ii. 241 note.

Life-preservers, i. 376.

_Lighthouse_, Carlyle on Dickens's acting in the, iii. 72.

Lincoln (President), curious story respecting, iii. 422, 423
(and see 508).

Lincoln's-inn-fields, a reading of the _Chimes_ in, ii. 162, 174,
175.

Linda, Dickens's dog, iii. 218, 219;
burial-place of, iii. 222.

Liston (Robert), ii. 475.

Literary Fund dinner, i. 321 (and see iii. 488).

Literature, too much "patronage" of, in England, iii. 488.

Litterateur, a fellow, ii. 325.

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