title chosen for, iii. 271;
hints for, in Memoranda, iii. 280, 281;
first notion for, iii. 371;
original of Mr. Venus in, iii. 374;
Marcus Stone chosen as illustrator, iii. 373;
the story reviewed, iii. 377-379.

Ouvry (Frederic), iii. 434, 539;
clause inserted by, in agreement for _Edwin Drood_, iii. 461 note;
humorous letter of Dickens to, iii. 522.

Overs (John), Dickens's interest in, ii. 109;
death of, ii. 109 note.

Over-work, remains of, ii. 297.

Owen (Prof.), ii. 477.

PAINTINGS, Dickens on, ii. 167-169.

_Paradise Lost_ at the Ambigu, Paris, iii. 130, 131.

Paris, Dickens's first day in, ii. 316;
Sunday in, ii. 317;
Dickens's house in, described, ii. 317-319;
unhealthy political symptoms at, ii. 321, 334;
the Morgue at, ii. 321;
incident in streets of, ii. 321;
hard frost at, ii. 324;
Dickens's alarming neighbour, ii. 325;
begging-letter writers in, ii. 327;
sight-seeing at, ii. 330;
theatres at, ii. 331;
Bibliotheque Royale, ii. 333;
the Praslin tragedy in, ii. 386;
Dickens's life in, iii. 121-153;
Dickens's house in, iii. 124;
personal attentions to Dickens, iii. 124;
theatres of, iii. 126-134;
illumination of, iii. 144;
New-year's day in, iii. 144, 145;
results of imperial improvement in, iii. 145 note;
Art Exposition at, iii. 146-148;
a Duchess murdered in, iii. 150, 151.

Parliament, old Houses of, inconvenience of the, i. 100.

Parr (Harriet), iii. 494 note.

Parry (John), ii. 475.

Pawnbrokers, Dickens's early experience of, i. 46.

Peel (Sir Robert) and his party, i. 277;
Lord Ashley and, i. 283;
the Whigs and, ii. 261.

_Pen Photographs_ (Miss Field's) iii. 235 note.

Perth, reading at, iii. 234.

Peschiere, Palazzo (Genoa), rooms in the, hired by Dickens, ii. 129;
a fellow-tenant in, ii. 129;
described, ii. 139-142;
view of the, ii. 141;
revisited, iii. 79;
dinner-party at, ii. 172;
owner of the, iii. 79.

Petersham, athletic sports at, i. 183.

Phelps (Mr.), ii. 475.

Philadelphia, Dickens at, i. 335-344;
penitentiary at, i. 345-347;
letters from, iii. 413-415 (and see ii. 38, 39).

_Pickwick Papers_, materials for, i. 66;
first number of, i. 108;
origin of, i. 110;
Seymour's illustrations to, i. 111 note;
Thackeray's offer to illustrate, i. 115,