459
At his sister's sick-bed 459
Last thoughts 460
Sister's death 460
Book to be written in first person 461
Riding over Salisbury Plain 461
Visiting scene of a tragedy 462
First sees Yarmouth 462
Birth of sixth son 462
Notion for a character 463
Choosing a title 463
"Mag's Diversions" 464
"Copperfield" chosen 464
Varieties of it proposed 465
Title finally determined 466
Difficulties of opening 466
Rogers and Benedict 466
Wit of Fonblanque 467
Procter and Macready 467
The Sheridans 468
Lord Byron's Ada 469
Dinner to Halevy and Scribe 469
Brougham and "the _Punch_ people" 469
The Duke at Vauxhall 470
Carlyle and Thackeray 470
Judicious change of a "tag" 471
A fact for a biographer 471
Marryat's delight with children 472
Bulwer Lytton and Monckton Milnes 472
Lords Nugent and Dudley Stuart 472-3
Kemble, Harness, and Dyce 473
Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble 473
Comparison and good distinction 474
Mazzini and Edinburgh friends 474
Artist-acquaintance 475
Visitors at his house 475
Friends from America 476
M. Van de Weyer 476
Ambition to see into heaven 477
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