A WEEK'S TRAMP
IN
DICKENS-LAND
[Illustration: The Marshes, Cooling.]
A WEEK'S TRAMP
IN
DICKENS-LAND
TOGETHER WITH
=Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boz'=
THEREIN COLLECTED.
BY
WILLIAM R. HUGHES, F.L.S.
_WITH MORE THAN A HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BY F. G. KITTON AND OTHER ARTISTS._
LONDON: CHAPMAN & HALL, LIMITED. BOSTON: ESTES AND LAURIAT. 1891.
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, LONDON & BUNGAY.
[_All Rights reserved._]
TO
MY WIFE AND DAUGHTERS,
EMILY AND EDITH,
I DEDICATE
THIS RECORD OF "A WEEK'S TRAMP,"
TO REMIND THEM OF
THE MANY PLEASANT READINGS FROM DICKENS
WE HAVE ENJOYED TOGETHER
AT HOME.
PREFACE.
* * * * *
"'I should like to show you a series of eight articles, Sir, that have appeared in the Eatanswill Gazette. I think I may venture to say that you would not be long in establishing your opinions on a firm and solid basis, Sir.'
"'I dare say I should turn very blue long before I got to the end of them,' responded Bob.
"Mr. Pott looked dubiously at Bob Sawyer for some seconds, and turning to Mr. Pickwick said:--
"'You have seen the literary articles which have appeared at intervals in the Eatanswill Gazette in the course of the last three months, and which have excited such general--I may say such universal--attention and admiration?'
"'Why,' replied Mr. Pickwick, slightly embarrassed by the question, 'the fact is, I have been so much engaged in other ways, that I really have not had an opportunity of perusing them.'
"'You should do so, Sir,' said Pott with a severe countenance.
"'I will,' said Mr. Pickwick.
"'They appeared in the form of a copious review of a work on Chinese metaphysics, Sir,' said Pott.
"'Oh,' observed Mr. Pickwick--'from your pen I hope?'
"'From the pen of my critic, Sir,' rejoined Pott with dignity.
"'An abstruse subject I should conceive,' said Mr. Pickwick.
"'Very, Sir,' responded Pott, looking intensely sage. 'He _crammed_ for it, to use a technical but expressive term; he read up for the subject, at my desire, in the _Encyclopaedia Britannica_.'
"'Indeed!' said Mr. Pickwick; 'I was not aware that that valuable work contained any information respecting Chinese metaphysics.'
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes
- 2: Pickwick felt emboldened to renew the conversation
- 3: Ten from the Jubilee Edition of Pickwick
- 4: And will outlive and outlast us
- 5: HUMOUR From two Statuettes of Mr
- 6: Kitton 79 OLD ROCHESTER THEATRE
- 7: Kitton from the Drawing by S
- 8: Vanderhoof 342 THE LITTLE INN
- 9: Yet another little brochure recently appeared
- 10: Entitled Charles Dickens and Southwark
- 11: We make a preliminary tramp in London
- 12: In The Life of Charles Dickens
- 13: The house was a favourite with David Copperfield
- 14: Crupp imposing on him frightfully as regards the dinner
- 15: Dickens's aunt on his mother's side in Nicholas Nickleby
- 16: Where lodged the ruined suitor in Chancery
- 17: Boffin feared he himself might be deficient
- 18: Grewgious and his charming ward
- 19: Here the Sketches by Boz were written
- 20: Which leads into Doughty Street
- 21: Dickens lived from 1851 until 1860
- 22: And The Lighthouse and Fortunus
- 23: And trav'ling o'er the Desert wide
- 24: Which had removed from Bayham Street
- 25: And proceed westward along the Marylebone Road
- 26: Here Longfellow visited Dickens in 1841
- 27: And turn into Devonshire Street
- 28: Then the lightning quivered
- 29: And became successful pastoralists
- 30: And the Saxons Hrofe ceastre Horf's castle
- 31: Walked into Rochester Cathedral
- 32: When first we read our Pickwick
- 33: Are several names from Dickens
- 34: Especially to the Widow Budger
- 35: In The Great Winglebury Duel of the Sketches by Boz
- 36: Dickens takes leave of the Blue Boar
- 37: Find ourselves on Rochester Bridge
- 38: One of the plates of Edwin Drood
- 39: Eastgate House the Nuns' House
- 40: The house opposite Eastgate House was of course Mr
- 41: Commencing at about L5 per annum
- 42: Because it was given to all the next in one line of kinred
- 43: Homan had to make a window seat instead
- 44: Whiston was a friend of Charles Dickens
- 45: Millen happened to be in the garden at the time
- 46: Next door to the Dickens family
- 47: He said that Charles Dickens at home was a quiet
- 48: The floor at some time had been varnished
- 49: It was so important that Lambarde
- 50: And in Roman mortar lime or chalk
- 51: Which records her Jubilee in 1887
- 52: Sitting in by places near Rochester Castle
- 53: And recounted to Forster during a second visit
- 54: And under the masked name of Cloisterham
- 55: Which is terribly mean and inappropriate
- 56: So especially associated with Jasper and Durdles
- 57: And especially so when writing Edwin Drood
- 58: Crisparkle dwelt with his mother
- 59: There are three Gatehouses near the Cathedral
- 60: And twenty three refer to Jasper's Gatehouse
- 61: And mainly resided at Rochester
- 62: We are anxious to identify Cloisterham Weir
- 63: Formerly the burial ground of the Church
- 64: Steadily waits and watches for Rudge
- 65: The illustrator of The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- 66: Both in Rochester and elsewhere
- 67: Within the Citty of Rochester aforesaid
- 68: He says proctors were simply rogues
- 69: We have a chat with one of the almsmen
- 70: And that he resided at Satis House
- 71: Blest if there don't come up a Beadle
- 72: Illustration Rochester from Strood Hill
- 73: It is from the Uncommercial Traveller
- 74: Not only the presence of Charles Dickens himself
- 75: Groundsel by the Author of Chickweed
- 76: And opens into the conservatory
- 77: And the faithful friend of the novelist all through his life
- 78: Was very dear both to Dickens and his eldest daughter
- 79: Such as the Railway Station at Higham
- 80: The chalet now stands in the terrace garden of Cobham Hall
- 81: When Major Budden very kindly takes us up to the roof
- 82: Standing on each side of the walk leading up to the arbour
- 83: And down to the dreary marshes beyond Higham
- 84: Hulkes spoke of the pleasant parties at Gad's Hill Place
- 85: Each Charade is a word of two syllables
- 86: Hoping that our subscribers will excuse us this week
- 87: Except Mr Fechter and family who left on December 26th
- 88: Hulkes mentioned a curious and interesting circumstance
- 89: Trood was Treasurer of the club
- 90: Trood confirmed his daughter's Mrs
- 91: Budden is fond of private theatricals
- 92: Founded by Bishop Glanville temp
- 93: Such was Strood in the olden times
- 94: Illustration The Crispin Crispianus
- 95: Master builder and undertaker of Strood
- 96: Lead flat and gutters
- 97: And the sixpenny ones for the tradesmen
- 98: Who removed old Rochester Bridge
- 99: Among the Dickens relics at Hillside
- 100: That Dickens had not much love for Strood
- 101: Dodd up to the 13th of January
- 102: Roach Smith is the President of the Strood Elocution Society
- 103: Pearson kindly allows me to print
- 104: We have some interesting talk respecting Venesection
- 105: There is an annual pleasure fair at Strood
- 106: We had a long chat about Edwin Drood generally
- 107: FOOTNOTES 14 Since our tramp in Dickens Land
- 108: Distinctly in favour of archaeology
- 109: To the Kent Archaeological Society
- 110: THE naval and military town of Chatham
- 111: Charles Dickens it is Huffam in his father's own handwriting
- 112: 21 and find ourselves at Ordnance Terrace
- 113: Where the Dickens Family lived 1821 3
- 114: The Mitre softened me yet
- 115: Mary Weller was pressed to accompany them
- 116: As the Uncommercial Traveller
- 117: Budden is under the impression
- 118: Littlewood also heard Dickens say
- 119: From Fort Pitt we see the famous Chatham lines
- 120: Tupman had suddenly disappeared
- 121: Slammer is already there with his friend Dr
- 122: ' said Lieutenant Tappleton
- 123: And brother of Miss Sarah Pearce
- 124: Vincent Crummles and his company
- 125: Genealogy of the late Thomas Dickens
- 126: Caused by the overflow of the Medway at certain times
- 127: Just outside Aylesford we pass Preston Hall
- 128: With a note to the effect that Muggleton
- 129: The Pickwickians came by the Muggleton Telegraph
- 130: Belonging to the Aylesford Friary
- 131: Pickwick and his fellow voyagers
- 132: ' said Miss Isabella Wardle
- 133: Was pitched to bowl against the redoubtable Dumkins
- 134: And Dover Railway for Maidstone
- 135: Standing in a quiet nook in the Brenchley Gardens
- 136: Not very far from Kit's Coty House
- 137: Extending to the famous Weald of Kent weald
- 138: 32 or drying houses for the hops
- 139: The whole process of hop picking
- 140: As the railway winds from Whitstable to Margate
- 141: He returned not again to Broadstairs until 1859
- 142: With a cornfield between it and the sea
- 143: To the unbounded gratification of Broadstairs
- 144: To Broadstairs as a watering place
- 145: Margate must have been intensely so
- 146: From King Ethelbert to Queen Victoria
- 147: A very old house bulging out over the road
- 148: The a detestable serpent HEEP
- 149: But there the likeness to Betsey Trotwood ends
- 150: Dickens was a frequent visitor to Dover
- 151: A tramp of upwards of six miles from Rochester
- 152: When the fly doth prick the gadding neat
- 153: And all the scenes wherein they played their parts Pip
- 154: In chapter one Fog on the Essex marshes
- 155: While the ground is of white enamel
- 156: Our destination is now Higham Higham by Rochester
- 157: Charles were very much liked in Higham
- 158: Had taken up his quarters at Higham
- 159: Formerly school mistress at Higham
- 160: Dickens jumped up quickly and said
- 161: Dickens was the best of masters
- 162: Dickens took him to Higham Church
- 163: We prudently take an early afternoon train to Higham
- 164: By Cobham Hall I came to the village
- 165: Which opens into Cobham village
- 166: We see the famous Swiss chalet
- 167: Tupman was already tired of retirement
- 168: Returning through Cobham woods
- 169: Frith and other friends in July 1868
- 170: The subject of the Dadd parricide alluded to by Mr
- 171: One more reference is made to the Dover road in Bleak House
- 172: And remonstrated with the Strood men on their conduct
- 173: John Joseph Marsham of Overblow
- 174: A final tramp in rochester and london
- 175: And especially in the precincts of the venerable Cathedral
- 176: Addressed by Dickens to The Times
- 177: In the Forster Collection of the Museum
- 178: Martin Chuzzlewit two Volumes
- 179: Kolle and not hitherto published
- 180: Illustration DAVID COPPERFIELD
- 181: The Codicil is witnessed by the same persons
- 182: Dickens's Residence in High Street 326
- 183: And see Dickens Kate and Perugini Mrs
- 184: Misses 92 3 Duck 117 EASEDOWN MRS
- 185: Church 212 236 350 Frith W
- 186: 209 400 1 2 Lawn House 326 7 Lawrence J
- 187: Chillington Manor House 308 9 310
- 188: And see Dickens Kate and Collins Mrs
- 189: Nicholas' Church Rochester 81 114 136 7
- 190: These two instances were left open but not closed