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Warehousemen and Clerks' Schools, 290.

Washington Irving, spoken of, 71; letters to, 326, et seq.
Watford, water-store at, 184.

Webster, B., 177.

Weller, Mr., on Railways, 13; an alibi that would have satisfied

him, 231.

Weller, Sam, his story of the Barber and the Bears, 15.

Wellington, Anecdote of, 240.

Wilkie, Sir David, Dickens's tribute to his memory, 53.
Wilks, Thomas Egerton, revises Grimaldi's Memoirs, 11.
Wilson, Professor, presides at a Public Banquet given to Charles
Dickens at Edinburgh, 19, 49; what a good speaker when
quite alone, 233.

Wood, Sir William Page. See HATHERLEY, Lord.
Word in Season, 341.

Wordsworth, William, a Sonnet of his alluded to by Mr. Dic-
kens, 292.

Yates, Edmund, his criticism on Dickens's Reading of Sikes and
Nancy, 353.

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