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• 1 2014-01-04T14:49:10-08:00 The caul from a newborn infant 4 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:10:11-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas."
  ...
  "...and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffle down in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown a head, the winner to spend five shillings."
  Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 1
• 1 2014-01-04T15:54:22-08:00 A man's waistcoat, used 3 Offer plain 2014-01-04T18:15:56-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "'What do you call a price, now, for this here little weskit?' 'Oh! you know best, sir,' I returned modestly. 'I can't be buyer and seller too,' said Mr. Dolloby. 'Put a price on this here little weskit.' 'Would eighteenpence be?'--I hinted, after some hesitation. Mr. Dolloby rolled it up again, and gave it me back. 'I should rob my family,' he said, 'if I was to offer ninepence for it.' This was a disagreeable way of putting the business; because it imposed upon me, a perfect stranger, the unpleasantness of asking Mr. Dolloby to rob his family on my account. My circumstances being so very pressing, however, I said I would take ninepence for it, if he pleased. Mr. Dolloby, not without some grumbling, gave ninepence." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: pp. 129-130
• 1 2014-01-03T00:02:06-08:00 The Personal History of David Copperfield (Offers view) 3 Text (Offers view) vistag 2014-01-04T14:53:57-08:00 Bibliographic information: The Personal History of David Copperfield
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• 1 2014-01-03T00:33:12-08:00 The Personal History of David Copperfield (Amounts view) 2 Text (Amounts view) vistag 2014-01-03T00:33:33-08:00 Bibliographic information: The Personal History of David Copperfield
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• 1 2014-01-04T17:10:20-08:00 Fruit, for a party of young men 2 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:10:46-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "'And another shilling or so in biscuits, and another in fruit, eh?' said Steerforth. 'I say, young Copperfield, you're going it!'" Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 62
• 1 2014-01-04T15:59:20-08:00 A man's jacket, used 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:59:20-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "'Oh, how much for the jacket?' cried the old man, after examining it. 'Oh--goroo!--how much for the jacket?' 'Half-a-crown,' I answered, recovering myself. 'Oh, my lungs and liver,' cried the old man, 'no! Oh, my eyes, no! Oh, my limbs, no! Eighteenpence. Goroo!' Every time he uttered this ejaculation, his eyes seemed to be in danger of starting out; and every sentence he spoke, he delivered in a sort of tune, always exactly the same, and more like a gust of wind, which begins low, mounts up high, and falls again, than any other comparison I can find for it. 'Well,' said I, glad to have closed the bargain, 'I'll take eighteenpence.' 'Oh, my liver!' cried the old man, throwing the jacket on a shelf. 'Get out of the shop! Oh, my lungs, get out of the shop! Oh, my eyes and limbs--goroo!--don't ask for money; make it an exchange.' I never was so frightened in my life, before or since; but I told him humbly that I wanted money, and that nothing else was of any use to me, but that I would wait for it, as he desired, outside, and had no wish to hurry him. So I went outside, and sat down in the shade in a corner. And I sat there so many hours, that the shade became sunlight, and the sunlight became shade again, and still I sat there waiting for the money. There never was such another drunken madman in that line of business, I hope. That he was well known in the neighbourhood, and enjoyed the reputation of having sold himself to the devil, I soon understood from the visits he received from the boys, who continually came skirmishing about the shop, shouting that legend, and calling to him to bring out his gold. 'You ain't poor, you know, Charley, as you pretend. Bring out your gold. Bring out some of the gold you sold yourself to the devil for. Come! It's in the lining of the mattress, Charley. Rip it open and let's have some!' This, and many offers to lend him a knife for the purpose, exasperated him to such a degree, that the whole day was a succession of rushes on his part, and flights on the part of the boys. Sometimes in his rage he would take me for one of them, and come at me, mouthing as if he were going to tear me in pieces; then, remembering me, just in time, would dive into the shop, and lie upon his bed, as I thought from the sound of his voice, yelling in a frantic way, to his own windy tune, the 'Death of Nelson'; with an Oh! before every line, and innumerable Goroos interspersed. As if this were not bad enough for me, the boys, connecting me with the establishment, on account of the patience and perseverance with which I sat outside, half-dressed, pelted me, and used me very ill all day. He made many attempts to induce me to consent to an exchange; at one time coming out with a fishing-rod, at another with a fiddle, at another with a cocked hat, at another with a flute. But I resisted all these overtures, and sat there in desperation; each time asking him, with tears in my eyes, for my money or my jacket. At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling. 'Oh, my eyes and limbs!' he then cried, peeping hideously out of the shop, after a long pause, 'will you go for twopence more?' 'I can't,' I said; 'I shall be starved.' 'Oh, my lungs and liver, will you go for threepence?' 'I would go for nothing, if I could,' I said, 'but I want the money badly.' 'Oh, go-roo!' (it is really impossible to express how he twisted this ejaculation out of himself, as he peeped round the door-post at me, showing nothing but his crafty old head); 'will you go for fourpence?' I was so faint and weary that I closed with this offer… "
  Final price: sixteen pence Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 132-33
• 1 2014-01-04T17:18:10-08:00 Weekly salary for working in a warehouse inspecting, cleaning and filling bottles of wines and spirits 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:18:10-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "Murdstone and Grinby's trade was among a good many kinds of people, but an important branch of it was the supply of wines and spirits to certain packet ships. I forget now where they chiefly went, but I think there were some among them that made voyages both to the East and West Indies. I know that a great many empty bottles were one of the consequences of this traffic, and that certain men and boys were employed to examine them against the light, and reject those that were flawed, and to rinse and wash them. When the empty bottles ran short, there were labels to be pasted on full ones, or corks to be fitted to them, or seals to be put upon the corks, or finished bottles to be packed in casks. All this work was my work, and of the boys employed upon it I was one. ... Mr. Quinion then formally engaged me to be as useful as I could in the warehouse of Murdstone and Grinby, at a salary, I think, of six shillings a week. I am not clear whether it was six or seven. I am inclined to believe, from my uncertainty on this head, that it was six at first and seven afterwards." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 111-113
• 1 2014-01-04T15:12:12-08:00 Letter paper (1 sheet) 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:12:12-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "'There's a sheet of letter-paper,' he returned. 'Did you ever buy a sheet of letter-paper?' I could not remember that I ever had. 'It's dear,' he said, 'on account of the duty. Threepence. That's the way we're taxed in this country. There's nothing else, except the waiter. Never mind the ink. I lose by that." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 51
• 1 2014-01-04T16:03:50-08:00 One male servant for an evening dinner party 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T16:03:50-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "When he was gone, I rang for Mrs. Crupp, and acquainted her with my desperate design. Mrs. Crupp said, in the first place, of course it was well known she couldn't be expected to wait, but she knew a handy young man, who she thought could be prevailed upon to do it, and whose terms would be five shillings, and what I pleased. I said, certainly we would have him." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 252
• 1 2014-01-04T17:29:16-08:00 Salary for a clerk (weekly and annual) 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:29:16-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: '"The stipendiary emoluments in consideration of which I entered into the service of--HEEP,"' always pausing before that word and uttering it with astonishing vigour, '"were not defined, beyond the pittance of twenty-two shillings and six per week. Notes: At this weekly rate, the annual salary would be £58 and 10 shillings. Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 532
• 1 2014-01-04T15:20:58-08:00 Waiter service at dinner at an inn 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:20:58-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "'What should you--what should I--how much ought I to--what would it be right to pay the waiter, if you please?' I stammered, blushing. 'If I hadn't a family, and that family hadn't the cowpock,' said the waiter, 'I wouldn't take a sixpence. If I didn't support a aged pairint, and a lovely sister,'--here the waiter was greatly agitated--'I wouldn't take a farthing. If I had a good place, and was treated well here, I should beg acceptance of a trifle, instead of taking of it. But I live on broken wittles--and I sleep on the coals'--here the waiter burst into tears. I was very much concerned for his misfortunes, and felt that any recognition short of ninepence would be mere brutality and hardness of heart. Therefore I gave him one of my three bright shillings, which he received with much humility and veneration, and spun up with his thumb, directly afterwards, to try the goodness of." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 51
• 1 2014-01-04T16:07:37-08:00 A female servant to wash dishes for an evening dinner party 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T16:07:37-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "Next Mrs. Crupp said it was clear she couldn't be in two places at once (which I felt to be reasonable), and that 'a young gal' stationed in the pantry with a bedroom candle, there never to desist from washing plates, would be indispensable. I said, what would be the expense of this young female? and Mrs. Crupp said she supposed eighteenpence would neither make me nor break me." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 252
• 1 2014-01-04T17:36:43-08:00 Salary for a clerk assisting young men studying to become lawyers 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:36:43-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "'Why, I have the fourth of a room and a passage, and the fourth of a clerk,' returned Traddles. 'Three others and myself unite to have a set of chambers--to look business-like--and we quarter the clerk too. Half-a-crown a week he costs me.'" Notes: At this rate, the clerk's annual salary would be £26. Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 283
• 1 2014-01-04T15:34:00-08:00 A loaf of brown bread 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:34:00-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "Accordingly we looked in at a baker's window, and after I had made a series of proposals to buy everything that was bilious in the shop, and he had rejected them one by one, we decided in favour of a nice little loaf of brown bread, which cost me threepence." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 54
• 1 2014-01-04T16:59:59-08:00 A book providing training in stenography 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T16:59:59-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt:"I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 385
• 1 2014-01-04T17:46:30-08:00 Salary for a secretary to a school headmaster in Canterbury (weekly and annual) 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:46:30-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "If you will take such time as I have, and that is my mornings and evenings, and can think it worth seventy pounds a year, you will do me such a service as I cannot express.' 'Dear me!' said the Doctor, innocently. 'To think that so little should go for so much! Dear, dear! And when you can do better, you will? On your word, now?' said the Doctor,--which he had always made a very grave appeal to the honour of us boys. 'On my word, sir!' I returned, answering in our old school manner. 'Then be it so,' said the Doctor, clapping me on the shoulder, and still keeping his hand there, as we still walked up and down." Notes: At this rate, the weekly salary would be approximately £1 and 7 shillings. Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 369
• 1 2014-01-04T15:36:52-08:00 Carrying a trunk from Blackfriars to City Road, London 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:36:52-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "I gave Mealy sixpence out of it to get my trunk carried to Windsor Terrace that night: it being too heavy for my strength, small as it was." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 113
• 1 2014-01-04T17:02:05-08:00 A bottle of currant wine 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:02:05-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "'Perhaps you'd like to spend a couple of shillings or so, in a bottle of currant wine by and by, up in the bedroom?' said Steerforth. 'You belong to my bedroom, I find.'" Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 62
• 1 2014-01-04T17:59:29-08:00 Salary for a page (weekly and annual) 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:59:29-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt: "This unlucky page, engaged in an evil hour at six pounds ten per annum, was a source of continual trouble to me." Notes: At this rate, the page's weekly salary would be 2 shillings 6 pence, or half a crown. Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 490
• 1 2014-01-04T15:39:29-08:00 A dinner of meat pie, and access to water 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:39:29-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "I paid sixpence more for my dinner, which was a meat pie and a turn at a neighbouring pump." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 113
• 1 2014-01-04T17:04:24-08:00 Almond cakes for a party of young men 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:04:24-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt:"'Very good,' said Steerforth. 'You'll be glad to spend another shilling or so, in almond cakes, I dare say?'" Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 62
• 1 2014-01-04T15:42:12-08:00 A glass of ale 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:42:12-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "Twopence-halfpenny,' says the landlord, 'is the price of the Genuine Stunning ale." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 116
• 1 2014-01-04T17:07:39-08:00 Biscuits, for a party of young men 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T17:07:39-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt: "'And another shilling or so in biscuits, and another in fruit, eh?' said Steerforth. 'I say, young Copperfield, you're going it!'" Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 62
• 1 2014-01-04T15:08:00-08:00 Double-Gloucester cheese 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:08:00-08:00 Type: Good Excerpt:"Even when the lessons are done, the worst is yet to happen, in the shape of an appalling sum. This is invented for me, and delivered to me orally by Mr. Murdstone, and begins, 'If I go into a cheesemonger's shop, and buy five thousand double-Gloucester cheeses at fourpence-halfpenny each, present payment.'" Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield  Location: p. 40
• 1 2014-01-04T15:48:10-08:00 Carrying a trunk from Blackfriars to Dover station 1 Offer plain 2014-01-04T15:48:10-08:00 Type: Service Excerpt:"There was a long-legged young man with a very little empty donkey-cart, standing near the Obelisk, in the Blackfriars Road, whose eye I caught as I was going by, and who, addressing me as 'Sixpenn'orth of bad ha'pence,' hoped 'I should know him agin to swear to'--in allusion, I have no doubt, to my staring at him. I stopped to assure him that I had not done so in bad manners, but uncertain whether he might or might not like a job. 'Wot job?' said the long-legged young man. 'To move a box,' I answered. 'Wot box?' said the long-legged young man. I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence." Bibliographic Data Contained in: The Personal History of David Copperfield Location: p. 127