116;
the debtor's prison in, i. 128, 129;
popularity of, i. 129 (and see iii. 385, 386);
reality of characters in, i. 130, 131;
inferior to later books, i. 131;
Mr. Pickwick an undying character, i. 131 (and see 112);
piracies of, i. 137;
completion of, i. 143;
payments for, i. 145;
a holy brother of St. Bernard and, ii. 276;
characters in, iii. 343;
where it was begun, iii. 528.

_Pictures from Italy_, original of the courier in, ii. 171-173;
publication commenced in the _Daily News_, ii. 219.

_Pic Nic Papers_ published, i. 241.

"Piljians Projiss," a new, ii. 376-384.

Pig-market at Boulogne, iii. 104.

Pipchin (Mrs.) in _Dombey_, original of, i. 55, ii. 355, 356;
various names proposed for, ii. 355 note.

Pirates, literary, ii. 97;
proceedings in Chancery against, ii. 97-99;
warning to, ii. 100 note.

Pisa, a jaunt to, iii, 81.

Pittsburg (U. S.), description of, i. 373;
solitary prison at, i. 378.

Poets, small, iii. 489.

Pollock (Chief Baron) on the death of Dickens, iii. 247 note.

Poole (John), aid rendered to, by Dickens, ii. 370;
civil-list pension granted to, ii. 393.

Poor, Dickens's sympathy with the, i. 167, 168 (and see 250),
ii. 146, 147, 240.

Popularity, distresses of, i. 324.

Porte St. Martin (Paris), Dickens at the, iii. 129.

Portland (U. S.) burnt and rebuilt, iii. 438.

Portrait painter, story of a, iii. 523.

Portsea, birth of Dickens at, i. 21.

Prairie, an American, i. 393, 394;
pronunciations of the word, i. 396.

Praslin tragedy in Paris, ii. 386.

Prayer, Dickens on personal, iii. 485.

Preston, a strike at, iii. 69, 70;
_Hamlet_ at, iii. 70.

Primrose (Mr.), i. 258.

Printers' Pension fund dinner, presided over by Dickens, ii. 55.

Prisons, London, visits to, i. 280;
American, i. 339-344, 345-347, 378;
comparison of systems pursued in, ii. 234.

Procter (Bryan Waller), iii. 27, 28;
Dickens's affection for, ii. 467.

Procter (Adelaide), Dickens's appreciation of poems by, iii. 495.

Publishers, hasty compacts with, i. 121;
Dickens's agreements with, ii. 88, iii. 56 (and see 240-243).

Publishers, authors and, ii. 64, 72, iii. 489, 490.

Puddings, a choice of, i. 55, 56.

"_Punch_ people," Lord Brougham and the, ii. 469;
at Mansion-house dinner, ii. 477.

Q, Dickens's secretary