The Sisters, 297;
chaplain at Magdalen House, 298;
character of his preaching, 299;
made a royal chaplain, 300;
tutor to Lord Chesterfield’s son, 301;
builds Charlotte Chapel and becomes prosperous and extravagant, 302;
leads a triple life, 302;
tries to purchase living of St. George’s, Hanover Square, 303;
and is disgraced, 304;
convicted of forgery and sentenced to death, 305, 306;
Thoughts in Prison, 306;
Dr. Johnson’s aid enlisted to obtain his pardon, 306, 310, 311;
his execution, 315-317.
Dodd, Rev. Mr., father of William, 294, 296.
Dodd, Mead & Co., 48.
Donne, John, Walton’s Life of, 96.
Dowden, Edward, Life of Shelley, 108.
Drake, James F., bookseller, 49, 51, 110.
Dreer, Ferdinand J., 57, 58, 83.
Dutton, E. P., & Co., 115.

Eckel, John C., First Editions of Charles Dickens, 55, 79, 114 ff.
Edinburgh Review, 147.
Edmonton Churchyard, 53.
Egan, Pierce, Boxiana, 81.
Elia and Eliana, 52.
Eliot, George. See Evans, Mary Ann.
“Eliot” Bible, 86.
Elizabeth, Queen, 189, 270, 277, 278.
Elizabethan Club, 72.
Elliott, Ebenezer, 83.
Elzevirs, 5, 88.
England, dispersion of great private libraries in, 70, 71.
English Literature, three greatest characters in, 151.
Evans, Mary Ann, 111, 186, 187, 253.
Examiner, The, 135, 143.
Executions, public, in England, in 18th century, 314, 315.
Extra-illustrated books, 55, 57.

Fell, John, Bishop of Oxford, 96.
Field, Eugene, 15.
Fielding, Henry, 156, 253.
FitzGerald, Edward, Rubaiyat, 7.
Fleet Street, in author’s book-plate, 61.
Folger, H. C., 72.
Foote, Samuel, 304.
Fore-edge painting, fine example of, 74.
Forman, H. Buxton, 106.
Formosa, Historical and Geographical Description of, 32.
Forster, John, 24.
Fortnightly Magazine, 332.
Fox, Charles James, 130.
Foxe, John, The Book of Martyrs, 76.
France, Anatole, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, 65.
Franklin, Benjamin, his edition of the Cato Major, 9;
mentioned, 58, 177.
Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia, 284.
French Revolution, 229.
Friswell, Hain, 261.
Furness, Horace H., 92.

Gale, Minna, 327.
Gamp, Sairey, 243.
Garrett, Mr., President of B. & O. Railroad, 54.
Garrick, David, Love in the Suds, 28;
mentioned, 43, 194, 200.
Garrick, Mrs. David, 194.
Gaskell, Elizabeth C., Cranford, 125.
George III, 21, 214, 306, 307, 309.
George V, 266, 270.
Gibbon, Edward, 162, 181.
Gilbert, William S., 78, 331.
Gilbert and Sullivan, Patience, Wilde caricatured in, 324.
Gissing, George, Workers in the Dawn, 124.
Godwin, Fanny, illegitimate daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, 244, 245.
Godwin, M. J., Godwin’s second wife, Lamb’s comments on, 238, 239, 240;
her bookshop on Skinner St., 239;
pursues Shelley and his companions, 242, 243.
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Godwin’s First Wife, dies in childbirth, 233;
mentioned 232, 238.
Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, 2d, copy of Queen Mab inscribed to, 108;
marries Shelley, 244, 245.
See Shelley, Mary W.
Godwin, William, sketch of his life, 228 ff.;
a political heretic and schismatic, 229;
Enquiry concerning Political Justice, 229, 230;
Adventures of Caleb Williams, 231, 232;
fascination for the fair sex, 232;
relations with Mary Wollstonecraft, 232, 233:
marries her, 233;
her death, 233;
courts Harriet Lee, 234;
financial troubles, 234, 235;
quarrelsomeness, 234;
his tragedy, Antonio, “damned with universal consent,” 235-237;
marries Mrs. Clairmont, 237, 238;
Life of Chaucer, 238, 239;
books for children, 239;
suggests Tales from Shakespeare to the Lambs, 239;
his opinions become less advanced, 240;
revival of interest in, through Shelley, 242;
absurd relations with Shelley, 243, 244;
his financial troubles thicken, 243, 244, 245;
his later literary work, 246;
Hazlitt’s anecdote of, 246;
becomes Yeoman Usher of the Exchequer, 247;
death, 247;
essay on “Sepulchres,” 247, 248;
the “husband of the first suffragette,” 248.
Goldsmith, Oliver, A Haunch of Venison (1776), 32;
The Vicar of Wakefield, “points” of first edition, 46, 98, 102, 127;
edition with Rowlandson plates, 46;
She Stoops to Conquer, 46, 103;
Johnson’s story of the sale of MS. of the Vicar, 98, 99;
The Traveller, 99;
The Deserted Village, 102;
mentioned, 8, 24, 61, 89, 194, 303, 304, 321, 322.
Goncourt, Edmond de, 94.
Gordon, Gen. Sir Alexander, presentation copies of Martin’s Life of the Prince Consort to, from Queen Victoria, 33, 34.
Grammatica Grœca, 89, 90.
Granniss, Ruth S., 113.
Gray, Thomas, Poems, 74:
the Elegy, 103;
Gen. Wolfe’s copy of the Elegy, 107, 108;
mentioned, 156, 163.
Greeley, Horace, 2.
Griffin, The, on the Site of Temple Bar, 269, 284, 285.
Grolier Club, bibliographies published by, 113 ff.;
exhibitions of, 113;
mentioned, 351, 352.
Gutenberg Bible, record price paid by H. E. Huntington for, at Hoe sale, 36, 67;
mentioned, 73.

Hagen, W. H., his copy of Paradise Lost, 5 n.;
sale of his collection, 102, 103, 106;
mentioned, 97.
Hamilton, Lady Emma, 320.
Hardy, Thomas, Desperate Remedies, 11, 13, 124;
letter of, to “old Tinsley,” 11, 12;
Far from the Madding Crowd, MS. of, 11, 13, 14;
Under the Greenwood Tree, 13;
The Woodlanders, 124;
quoted, 212.
Harrington, Lady, 307, 308.
Harrison, Mr., at Theobald’s Park, 288, 289.
Harvard University, Harry E. Widener graduated at, 345;
his collection now in keeping of, 349;
the Widener Memorial Library, 353.
Hawkins, Sir John, Life of Johnson, 21, 174, 214;
Boswell and, 179, 180;
mentioned, 305, 309, 317.
Hawtrey, Charles, 336.
Hazlitt, William, Anecdote of Godwin, 246, 247;
mentioned, 239.
Heath, James, engraver, 184 n.
Heming and Condell, 92.
Henkels, Stan, 57, 100.
Henry VI, 275.
Herbert, George, Walton’s Life of, 96;
The Temple, 97.
Herrick, Robert, Hesperides, first edition, 7, 102, 103.
Hill, George Birkbeck, editor of Boswell, 22, 64, 153, 181, 309.
Hill, Walter, bookseller, 44, 46, 83, 91.
Hingley, Mr., 298.
Hodgkins, Thomas, 239.
Hoe, Robert, sale of his collection, 36, 92, 103, 352, 354.
Hogarth, Mary, presentation copy of Pickwick Papers in parts to, 80, 81.
Hogarth, William, 190.
Holbrook, Richard T., 18.
Hollings, Frank, bookseller, 33.
Hollingsworth, John, 132.
Homer, Pope’s translation of, 9;
Chapman’s, 102.
Hooker, Richard, Walton’s Life of, 96.
Horneck, Miss, 24.
Horneck, Mrs., 24.
Howells, William Dean, 251, 254.
Hume, David, 161, 165.
Huntington, Henry E., pays record price for Gutenberg Bible, 36;
mentioned, 71, 72, 73, 352.
Hutchinson, Thomas, Ballad of a Poor Book-Lover (MS.), 69.
Huth, Alfred, sale of his collection, 354.
Hutt, Charles, bookseller, 66.
Hutt, Fred, bookseller, 10, 11, 63.
Hutton, Laurence, his collection of death-masks, 68;
mentioned, 69.

Iaggard, Isaac, 93.
Imlay, Mrs. Gilbert. See Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft.
Incunabula, 72.
Irving, Henry, 129, 268.
Ives, Brayton, his copy of Shelley’s Queen Mab, 108.

James I, 278, 280, 287.
Jefferson, Thomas, 58.
Jellicoe, Sir John (Viscount), 291.
Johnson, Henry, 213.
Johnson, John G., 42.
Johnson, Samuel, on poetry and Pope, 10;
holograph prayer of, 22;
many prayers written by, 22;
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, 23, 24;
letter to Mrs. Horneck, 22;
and Mrs. Davies, 31;
Psalmanazar Memoirs, inscribed by, to Mrs. Thrale, 31, 32;
Prologue Spoken at the Opening of the Theatre in Drury Lane, 42, 43;
and the author’s book-plate, 60, 61;
Mrs. Thrale’s copy of the Dictionary, 63;
letter to the Thrales, 63;
his letters considered, 63, 64;
his story of the sale of the MS. of The Vicar of Wakefield, 98;
translator of Lobo’s Abyssinia, 125;
The Prince of Abissinia (Rasselas), 125, 206, 207;
and Jonson, 145;
Macaulay’s representation of, 147;
first meeting with Boswell, 150, 151;
what his fame owes to Boswell, 151, 152;
his advice to Boswell, 166;
on Boswell’s Corsica, 170;
effect of his death on Boswell, 173;
Mrs. Thrale’s Anecdotes, 174;
Hawkins’s Life of, 174;
need of an index to his dicta, 176, 177;
on Boswell, 181;
introduced
to the Thrales by Murphy, 192;
growth and long continuance of the intimacy, 193;
their first and greatest lion, 194, 195;
practically a member of the Thrale household, 197, 198;
his “menagerie of old women,” 198;
at Streatham, 199, 200;
verses to Mrs. Thrale, 201;
business adviser to the Thrales, 202;
executor of Thrale’s estate, 203, 204;
Streatham portrait of, 204, 205;
presentation copy of The Prince of Abissinia to Mrs. Thrale, 206, 207;
violent letter to Mrs. Thrale on her engagement to Piozzi, and her reply, 211, 212;
effect of his death on Mrs. Thrale-Piozzi, 213, 214;
author’s imaginary meeting with, 273, 274;
his efforts to obtain a reprieve for Dr. Dodd, 306 ff.;
letter of ghostly counsel to Dodd, and prayer for him, 311, 312;
writes “gallows speech” for Dodd (undelivered), 313, 314, 317;
on public executions, 317;
mentioned, 5, 52, 76, 80, 111, 114, 130, 155, 184, 187, 188, 189, 208, 215, 218, 221, 222, 226, 260, 268, 278, 282, 303, 321, 342.
See Boswell, James; Dodd, William; Thrale-Piozzi, Hester Lynch.
Jones, Inigo, 278.
Jonson, Ben, 145, 282.
Jordan, Dorothea, 133.
Jowett, Benjamin, 185.

Karslake, Frank, 103.
Keats, John, Endymion, Wordsworth’s copy of, 7, 29, 106;
Poems (1817), presentation copies of, 18, 104, 106, and n., 122;
his copy of Spenser’s Works, presented by Severn, 24, 25;
influence of Spenser on, 25;
rarity of books from his library, 25;
prices of MSS. of his works, 101;
To the Misses M—— at Hastings (MS.), 105, 106 n.;
Lamia, 106;
The Eve of St. Agnes, 355.
Kelly, Frances Maria, relations with Lamb, 129-144;
as an actress, 129, 130;
Lamb’s admiration for, 130, 131;
his offer of marriage, 132 ff., 138 ff.;
the original of his “Barbara S——,” 135;
Lamb’s earlier letters to, 136-138;
her reply to his offer of marriage, 142.
Kemble, John Philip, 130, 235, 236.
Kennerley, Mitchell, 103.
King, Edward, 354.
Kingsley, Charles, 253.
“Knockout, The,” at London auctions, 102, 103.

Labouchere, Henry, Truth, 28.
Lamb, Charles, autograph letter to Taylor & Hessey, 28;
receipt for copyright of Elia, 28, 74;
Elia, presentation copy of, 28;
Prose Works (1836), 37;
Letters (1837), 37;
Elegy on a Quid of Tobacco, 38, 39 n., 40;
in the Cosens MSS., 38, 39, 41;
birth and growth of the author’s interest in, 52, 53;
his burial-place, 53;
his house at Enfield, 53;
Old China, 68;
as book-collector and book-lover, 68;
admiration for Miss Kelly, 130 ff.;
Dream Children reminiscent of her, 130, 131;
resurrection of his letter offering marriage to her, 132 ff.;
sonnet to her, 133;
on Blue-stockings, 134;
“Barbara S——,” 134, 135;