'selected_contents':'''Readings by Dickens / Moncure Conway / JWC’s Failing Health / Death of Thackeray / “Valley of the shadow of blue pill” / Lord Houghton / Margaret Oliphant / Death of Lord Ashburton / “Ilias (Americana) in Nuce” (1863) and Frederick, Volumes 4–6 (1864, 1865) / Death of JWC, 1866 / Eyre Defence Committee / Visit to Menton / Quarrels with Ruskin / Photos by Cameron / Shooting Niagara (1867) / the Watts portrait / the Library Edition / Mary Carlyle Aitken / Holidays with Lady Ashburton / Woolner’s plaster of TC’s hands / Cromwell’s death mask / Death of Dickens / the Franco-Prussian War / Farewell to Mazzini / John Ruskin / Emerson’s Last Visit''',