{"id":2131,"date":"2012-06-29T15:22:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susannaives.com\/wordpress\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2021-07-12T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T18:05:21","slug":"a-gentlemans-guide-to-living-in-london-on-100-a-year-in-1835","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susannaives.com\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/a-gentlemans-guide-to-living-in-london-on-100-a-year-in-1835\/","title":{"rendered":"A Victorian Gentleman&#8217;s Guide to Living in London on \u00a3100 a year in 1835"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tonight, I\u2019m excerpting from a fun little volume titled <em><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/thoroughbredpoo00gentgoog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The (Thorough-bred) Poor Gentleman\u2019s Book; or, How to Live in London on \u00a3100 A-year, <\/a><\/em>published in 1835.\u00a0As usual, I can\u2019t find many images of fashionable men doing fashionable things without spending hours digging through archives. And I\u2019m too lazy for that. You can click on the meager images in this post to link to their original journals or books.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*I created a new and exciting (not!) page explaining\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/susannaives.com\/wordpress\/regency-and-victorian-money\/\">British money and coins in the Regency and Victorian era<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To begin then, as a general rule to make yourself respected, though poor:\u2014<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Never talk of it.<\/li>\n<li>Never ask a favour (of a solid kind).<\/li>\n<li>Never borrow money; (never\u00a0<em>lend!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Never be in debt sixpence.<\/li>\n<li>Never\u00a0<em>affect\u00a0<\/em>anything.<\/li>\n<li>Never make up to richer people first; let them pass, whether in a carriage or on foot, if they do not\u00a0<em>see\u00a0<\/em>you, and nod first!<\/li>\n<li>Refuse some invitations now and then of your best friends.<\/li>\n<li>Never get into a cab or hackney-coach when you can\u00a0<em>possibly\u00a0<\/em>walk.<\/li>\n<li>Buy no trifle you do not absolutely\u00a0<em>want.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t lounge at pastrycooks\u2019\u00a0eating cakes or soups.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t smoke or snuff, or glide into any expensive and foolish\u00a0<em>habit;\u00a0<\/em>that leads to no good.<\/li>\n<li>Never accept dinners at hotels from other single men, when you can by any means get out of the scrape.<\/li>\n<li>Carry halfpence in your coat-pocket: never be without a halfpenny\u2014for a distressed\u00a0<em>silent\u00a0woman;\u00a0<\/em>pass all other loud beggars, street-sweepers, &amp;c.\u2014&#8221;&#8217;tis just as generous as if the Duke of Devonshire gave a\u00a0<em>crown\u00a0<\/em>on such occasions!<\/li>\n<li>Never talk of rich titled people: if you do know any, keep it to yourself.<\/li>\n<li>Pay your tailor\u00a0<em>cash,\u00a0<\/em>and he\u2019ll take off fifteen per cent, which brings the\u00a0<em>first\u00a0rate\u00a0<\/em>nearly on a level with the herd of botchers: but cash\u00a0<em>must\u00a0<\/em>be paid for every\u00a0<em>thing\u00a0<\/em>as the\u00a0<em>grand\u00a0rule\u00a0<\/em>on which all others hang.<\/li>\n<li>Never call a second time where your cards are not returned, unless on women, or the very old or infirm; let no\u00a0<em>rank <\/em>be any exception; if you do, you will soon be\u00a0<em>cut\u00a0<\/em>more effectually! particularly where there are girls in the family.<\/li>\n<li>Never go near a\u00a0<em>hotel\u00a0<\/em>or a tavern, if you can help it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will suppose you dropped from the clouds (of dust or rain ?) in the Circus, Piccadilly. Down go your portmanteau and \u00a0bag.\u00a0<em>Recollect\u00a0your\u00a0hundred!\u00a0<\/em>Don&#8217;t go to a hotel; leave your luggage behind the counter of the office for two-pence, and start off for a lodging. Just behind Regent Street to the east, or north of Oxford Street, you\u2019ll get a bed-room for seven or eight shillings; perhaps a parlour, with French bed, for half-a-guinea; that will do. Say you send your things at once,\u00a0<em>sleep\u00a0there;\u00a0<\/em>giving a reference,\u2014there is no difficulty. By this simple maneuver you save a seven or nine shilling bill, (nearly a week&#8217;s lodging !) Here lies the\u00a0<em>art\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0<em>not <\/em>spending your poor pittance foolishly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=31kFAAAAQAAJ&amp;dq=dining+london&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=31kFAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA497&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U0rG-L3TE6HoNY12UZYA-wfmia8Gw&amp;ci=51%2C342%2C877%2C619&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I should say, breakfast at home (You lose the whole morning if you don&#8217;t breakfast at home\u2014which is detestable. If you are not too far off, return directly, at any rate.) \u00a0if not, near the head of the Haymarket (there are others as good) is a decent coffee-room (Hope&#8217;s); go up-stairs; for five pence you have a roll and butter, and cup of coffee, put before you on a tray, with clean cloth, and in as good a room as more expensive coffee-rooms, with nearly all the daily and weekly papers (Pamphilion&#8217;s has\u00a0<em>books,\u00a0<\/em>but is crowded, in Sherard Street). Of course, you are not to\u00a0<em>know\u00a0<\/em>those who sit near you, though mostly decent people. You breakfast just as well in this way as if you paid two shillings, with a greater choice of papers. You give the girl a penny, instead of some waiter sixpence; and she, poor girl, thanks you more for it. There you may sit (if you bother your head about politics) all day, and read the millions of\u00a0<em>words\u00a0<\/em>pro and con, together with all the paid puffs, abuse, and nonsense of the weekly critiques on literature,\u2014<em>(&#8220;Literary<\/em><em>\u00a0Gazette,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>to wit!)\u00a0a busy feeble crew, who chatter as incessantly as the monkeys of the Brazils, with very little more intellect. Have you breakfasted badly? you will dine with the more appetite!<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6KcFi3roJC0C&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6KcFi3roJC0C&amp;pg=PA54-IA2&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U1QAHUuImYWdoT_XVEaE8NCyfc6WA&amp;ci=117%2C229%2C778%2C985&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"566\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Dickens&#8217;s &#8220;Sketches by Boz&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now, where\u00a0<em>is\u00a0<\/em>a man to dine on five and-sixpence a day, where he may not be ashamed to be seen? How restore exhausted nature about five o&#8217;clock? Alas! there is no help for it, you must condescend to pop yourself (incog. !) into an\u00a0<em>eating-house.\u00a0<\/em>London swarms with these refuges of destitute dandies, clerks, shopmen, half-pay officers, &amp;c. There is nothing to be ashamed of except talking loud, and giving yourself airs, and finding fault! all which things mark the well-dressed aping set I have already alluded to. Of course, you avoid notice, and get to some table quietly <em>alone\u00a0<\/em>if you\u00a0<em>can.\u00a0<\/em>You have a great choice of plain, roast, and boiled of the\u00a0<em>second-best <\/em>meat and vegetables. As you are hungry, a plate of beef or veal, and potatoes, put before you, is\u00a0<em>delicious;\u00a0<\/em>washed down with a pint of\u00a0<em>heavy\u00a0wet:<\/em>\u2014why, it is a feast for the gods! what more would you have? A silver fork? soup, fish, wine? The first you may take in your pocket, for fear you should forget yourself at some friend&#8217;s; but it would perhaps look affected: the rest you can have, all tol-lol of their kind, and wind up with a slice of pudding, or tart, and cheese, &amp;c. But you will extend your\u00a0<em>shilling\u00a0<\/em>(which pays for the simple dinner) to one shilling and sixpence, or two shillings and sixpence, possibly five shillings, if you attempt <em>finery<\/em>; and besides, it is in\u00a0<em>bad\u00a0taste:\u00a0<\/em>better go to the Blenheim in Bond Street, or York in St. James&#8217;s Street, or the Union in Cockspur Street, at once.<\/p>\n<p>The worst of it is, on only\u00a0one hundred pounds you cannot belong to a club, with\u00a0<em>propriety\u00a0! (<\/em>Some men vegetate in <em>boarding-houses<\/em><em>;<\/em>\u2014but the\u00a0<em>cheap\u00a0<\/em>ones are dirty and skin-flinty; with a queer set of the &#8220;<em>highest respectability<\/em>.'&#8221;\u2014the\u00a0<em>two\u00a0guinea\u00a0<\/em>ones are a\u00a0<em>shade\u00a0<\/em>better;\u2014bad are the best, town or country.) as you cannot well dine at the most moderate under three shillings and sixpence, besides your five or six guineas yearly subscription ; as at the Junior U. S. I will suppose you, poor fellow, a Sub. in the army or navy, or a\u00a0<em>Commander\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>Major:\u00a0<\/em>still, without private fortune, you\u00a0<em>must\u00a0<\/em>go to an\u00a0Eating-house; and since there is no help for it, I will recommend you the best. If you come from the Park, go to the &#8221;\u00a0<em>West-end\u00a0Rooms&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>in Oxford Street, opposite Marsh&#8217;s; if from the Guards or East end, to the\u00a0<em>Shades&#8217;\u00a0Hotel,\u00a0<\/em>Leicester Square,\u00a0<em>half\u00a0French.\u00a0<\/em>In Rupert Street, &#8220;<em>John<\/em><em>\u00a0o&#8217;Groat&#8217;s&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>was good, but is spoiled, by affecting more and doing less! Men wait, and\u00a0I prefer giving my\u00a0<em>two pence\u00a0<\/em>to the girls. There are a great many other houses of the same stamp scattered about, but as they stare a hungry man in the face at every turn, no need to enumerate them : another French house in Princes Street, close by: the\u00a0<em>York\u00a0<\/em>chop-house, Wardour Street, is the neatest and cleanest in town, and only two-pence more,\u2014but at the worst of them a man can dine better (strange to say !) than for the same money in Paris ! (The\u00a0<em>city\u00a0<\/em>is full of eating-houses cheaper still! If a\u00a0<em>hotel\u00a0<\/em>man asks you\u00a0<em>&#8220;where\u00a0you\u00a0dine\u00a0to-day?&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>always say &#8220;<em>out<\/em>;&#8221; and let no\u00a0<em>dashing\u00a0<\/em>fellow induce you to go to\u00a0<em>Vauxhall,\u00a0<\/em>or a\u00a0<em>Finish,\u00a0<\/em>or the\u00a0<em>Divans,\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0<em>Shades,\u00a0<\/em>or <em>Lush<\/em>-houses, or\u00a0<em>Hells\u00a0<\/em>about Jermyn Street).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6KcFi3roJC0C&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=6KcFi3roJC0C&amp;pg=PA194-IA1&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U2bITJbV8Cbku4-BcZ1aleiLwfJ3A&amp;ci=146%2C168%2C771%2C1061&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"443\" height=\"610\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Dickens&#8217;s &#8220;Sketches by Boz&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thus, having dispatched this very indispensable affair, a man naturally looks round him how to pass his evening; for I will even kindly suppose he knows nobody in town, and never by any chance goes to a party, dinner, or dance. Of theatres there are twelve or thirteen open every night; at half-price in the\u00a0<em>pit\u00a0<\/em>he may indulge himself\u00a0<em>now\u00a0and\u00a0then,\u00a0<\/em>when there is anything worth seeing.\u00a0<em>Concerts,\u00a0<\/em>and the\u00a0<em>King&#8217;s\u00a0Theatre,\u00a0<\/em>while they are pitched at half-a-guinea, I fear, are out of the question; but if he has heard and seen the same people abroad for a dollar, he may\u00a0<em>talk\u00a0<\/em>of them, now and then in a way, (should he be asked the usual question,\u2014Have you seen Taglioni? heard Malibran, Pasta, Grisi, and Paganini ?) as to give to understand he goes\u00a0<em>occasionally:\u00a0<\/em>but this requires tact; if he has no ear he had better say nothing about the matter. Once or twice in the year he\u00a0<em>may\u00a0<\/em>indeed venture into Fop&#8217;s Alley, and judge how miserably deficient our Opera is, compared with the Academie or San Carlos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4XFMAAAAMAAJ&amp;dq=gentleman+dress&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=4XFMAAAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA67&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U0pTpW6DzoWjkDaf1cqu5-Kkh3O1A&amp;ci=98%2C162%2C778%2C1120&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But how many tedious moments are there to be filled up in the twenty-four hours!\u00a0each person&#8217;s taste and habit must manage in this as they please. Subscribe to Marsh&#8217;s Library, Oxford Street, or some other circulating library, for the novels, if any appear worth reading. Still there are Travels, Reviews, &amp;c. always something\u00a0<em>new,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>to inform and amuse, besides the usual lounges in the Park about four and five o&#8217;clock, or along Oxford and Regent Streets; to Tattersall&#8217;s Mondays; to the Bazaar, Baker Street, on Tuesday and Saturday mornings; the Pantheon and rest of the bazaars (Adelaide Gallery, Colosseum, Picture Exhibitions, National Gallery, Surrey Zoological, Fancy Fairs, Dulwich Gallery (walk), Beulah Spa, Pantechnicon, &amp;c.) \u00a0at any time in the afternoon, when pretty girls may be seen in hundreds with their sweet faces, to <em>contemplate<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>respectfully: for I do not recommend that impudent and insolent stare, that compels a modest girl to hold down her head; nor is it indeed the interest of those knowing\u00a0blades who display their taste and admiration in this very equivocal manner. Sometimes Regent&#8217;s Park and the Zoological attract a parcel of gay-looking people and equipages; they become more frequented every day! But of all the metamorphoses about town for the\u00a0<em>better,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>St. James&#8217;s Park is the most striking and admirable. Here a man may take his book of a fine day, and seated (for a penny) beneath one of those noble elms near the water, fancy himself twenty miles in the country, and the grounds his\u00a0<em>own, <\/em>with the additional pleasure of seeing groups of well-dressed people meandering along the paths, lending an interest to the fairy scene! We are in the habit of talking a great deal of common-place nonsense about London; but, in truth, there is no city in the world to compare with it for its riches, variety of amusements\u00a0<em>easily<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>got<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>at,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>its beautiful circumjacent walks and rides; St. James&#8217;s, Hyde, Green, Regent&#8217;s Parks, and Kensington Gardens; its noble streets, equipages, and the crowds of elegant people in circulation!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qoA-AAAAcAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qoA-AAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PP4&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U26QCEv7zrxlvb9dVkZaitzFbjD-g&amp;ci=35%2C10%2C896%2C1429&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"822\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But to return to a poor Gentleman&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Economy<\/em>\u2014What is there left essential to say ?\u2014 If he has a good many friends who live in a certain style, so much the better. Always walk to dinner if the day is\u00a0<em>fine;\u00a0<\/em>for which purpose, have a second pair of\u00a0<em>rather\u00a0<\/em>stout-soled dress-shoes: and when you\u00a0<em>must\u00a0<\/em>have a jarvy, return home on foot; nobody asks or cares how you go or come: a hack is more annoying, seen at some doors, than nothing, but your shoes must not be soiled. As the most liberal people cannot avoid eyeing your dress, mind that &#8220;<em>all<\/em>&#8216;s\u00a0<em>right.&#8221;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>Let Cooper in Sackville Street, or Nugee, St. James&#8217;s, or Stultz, or anybody that\u00a0<em>can,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>make your clothes,\u00a0<em>(coat,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>at least,) and be in the fashion <em>quietly;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>fancy waistcoats and trousers are dangerous things (in\u00a0<em>bills)<\/em>; therefore be\u00a0<em>simple<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>in your\u00a0<em>taste,<\/em>\u2014from necessity, if you cannot change often; for recollect, nobody is to remain unpaid. One dress-coat a year is quite enough, being careful of the last\u00a0<em>year\u2019s<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>as a hack: never have more; for a well-cut coat is better twenty times <em>threadbare,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>than a bad-cut bran new! A dozen shirts are easily kept up, and all other linen stock exceedingly <em>slender;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>it is only a lumber. In short, your whole\u00a0<em>dress,\u00a0<\/em>with care, need not cost you more than fifteen pounds, exclusive of washing (Don&#8217;t exceed four or five dean shirts a week, and wear a night-shirt,\u2014with\u00a0<em>care\u00a0<\/em>the\u00a0<em>second\u00a0<\/em>day&#8217;s shirt will look fresh, and don&#8217;t wear\u00a0<em>collars.\u00a0Washing\u00a0bill\u00a0<\/em>per week\u20144 shirts, Is. 4d.; 5 pair socks, 5d.; 3 &#8216;kerchiefs, 4d.; drawers, 5d.\u20142s. 6d. or 2s. 9d.) Coat, charged six guineas, you\u00a0<em>pay\u00a0<\/em>five; two pair of trousers, three guineas and a half, cash; waistcoat, one guinea; make nine guineas and a half;\u2014 the rest in shoes and boots, and keeping up your\u00a0<em>linen.\u00a0<\/em>You must not go to the most expensive boot-makers; have but one\u00a0<em>best\u00a0<\/em>pair, and dress shoes; the rest thick soles and stout, to stand long walks. And here economy <em>must<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>be studied in soling, repairing, &amp;c. ( Get your hair cut at\u2014I forget the man&#8217;s name\u2014 between Twining&#8217;s door and Temple Bar, for sixpence. If at Truefit&#8217;s, it is Is. 6d.\u2014but 1s. is\u00a0<em>taken,\u00a0<\/em>of\u00a0<em>customers.) \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In short, the minutest details are of vital importance: just as if the corner-stone of a building could be neglected or left out! down comes the whole fabric! How many young fellows are there about town, whose bootmaker&#8217;s bill\u00a0<em>alone\u00a0<\/em>(not a word of the tailor !) comes to a third of your whole income !\u2014whether it is paid or not is another matter. Allowing, therefore, fifteen pounds for your dress\u2014and on this, I\u00a0<em>know,\u00a0<\/em>you can appear, not only as a gentleman, but\u00a0<em>well-dressed<\/em>\u2014you have eighty-five pounds left for living and lodging, and\u00a0<em>menus\u00a0plaisirs.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You cannot afford a sitting-room; and since it comes to that, have a cheap bedroom : one may always be got (not to be too far\u00a0<em>out\u00a0<\/em>of town) in that debatable region, between Tottenham Court Road and Regent Street,\u2014or near the Edgware Road,\u2014or where I have mentioned. Indeed, I once knew a young fellow hang out in\u00a0<em>Curzon\u00a0Street\u00a0<\/em>on six shillings a-week; so that his\u00a0address (he was never at home) was magnificent ! However, if your stock of philosophy is as slender as your purse, you must fee some hotel\u00a0<em>waiter\u00a0<\/em>to let you leave it, in Jermyn Street, or about the great squares; though there are many streets, such as Park, Great George, Green, Mount, Duke, Manchester, &amp;c. where younger brothers of noble families have rooms, and where a poor fellow may obtain a bed, without being absolutely ashamed of the door, should a kind friend or two condescend to turn their horses&#8217; heads that way. There is one comfort for a man of good connexions and family; the higher his friends and acquaintance are as to birth and rank, the less do they care about his lodging or his means: but beware of letting a <em>parvenu<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>know a bad address, or such people as are themselves struggling through a thousand meannesses and mortifications to get a step higher, or into the next circle\u00a0above them; they would at once shake you off, without delicacy or ceremony. Enough of this.\u2014Say your lodging comes to nine shillings a-week, (not to be too uncomfortable when\u00a0<em>at\u00a0home,)\u00a0<\/em>and including a present to the maid-servant, will be twenty-six pounds a-year; and, for this shilling extra, you are always received and waited on with smiles. Always brush your\u00a0<em>own\u00a0clothes,\u00a0<\/em>it does you <em>both<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>good! besides, one must not be troublesome!<\/p>\n<p>Three hundred and sixty five dinners, at fourteen-pence a-day,<em>(a liberal<\/em><em>\u00a0allowance<\/em>!) are twenty-one pounds, which leaves thirty-eight pounds; breakfasts, nine pounds five shillings, leaves twenty-six pounds fifteen shillings; washing, seven pounds; library, two pounds, as a sort of food he cannot do without; coals, the winter months, three pounds, added, leaves fourteen pounds fifteen shillings as pocket money for all contingencies! This seems\u00a0a desperate small sum for extras and pleasures! having, with the most rigid economy, got over\u00a0<em>living,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>clothing,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>warmth.\u00a0<\/em>For though, as the poet says, asking very pertinently what riches give us? only food, clothes, and fire, yet, I confess, this account staggers even me, who have lived on much less, without descending to dirt or bad company !<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=q4A-AAAAcAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=q4A-AAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PP5&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U2ckM-MMJ5JcncTAff-J7wBYEqC6A&amp;ci=66%2C21%2C838%2C1393&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"801\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>Let us, looking to wealth, take any one nobleman whom you so much envy, for instance, in his cab, or taking a canter at five or so in the Park. Where, in the twenty four hours, shall we begin? He has, possibly, ten thousand pounds a-year:\u00a0<em>reputed\u00a0<\/em>incomes are all a bubble,\u20143,000l. means 1,800l., and 2,000. 1,200. The poverty of <em>fashionable\u00a0<\/em>families with a carriage on 3,000l. (granted) is pitiable, (hundreds have not a tithe of it.) Does this guinea an\u00a0<em>hour\u00a0<\/em>make him\u00a0<em>pass\u00a0his\u00a0time\u00a0<\/em>one bit more\u00a0<em>delightfully\u00a0<\/em>from its own weight? Not a jot, I suspect! He is tired of his cab, and horridly annoyed on seeing Booby Botheram with a more splendid turn-out than his; his reins were wrong, and his tiger was not so\u00a0<em>smart!\u00a0<\/em>He got home at seven to dress, tedious again: dines at home; they sit down very formally with some humble\u00a0<em>invite,\u00a0<\/em>as it is not one of their\u00a0<em>intimate<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>days; how wearisome this formal politeness. He wishes the fellow (his wife&#8217;s cousin, or some scribbling\u00a0<em>critic)<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>at the devil: they fly for refuge to the opera; too late for Pasta, Grisi, Malibran, Tamburini; Taglioni still pleases for a moment, spite of the tedium of repetition. The charm has lost its spring from being over-stretched: he yawns; nods across, and is bored by\u00a0<em>lookers-in,<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>in some way or other; or he goes round himself to say &#8221; How d&#8217;ye do?&#8221; to people he sees every hour! But suppose he passes a pleasing hour in a\u00a0<em>sly<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>flirtation<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>with a friend&#8217;s young wife, or some girl, whose eagerness for admiration does not care for his being married, as she hates his wife\u2014 perhaps an old flirt: this ends, he puts her in her carriage, and drops in at C&#8212;- &#8216;s, St.James&#8217;s Street, where he loses a thousand pounds, and goes home perhaps very philosophically, or swearing all the way; gets up next day at one or two, the weather heavenly; ay, but he knows nothing of the fresh mornings, \u2014all is now dusty, noise, and bustle\u2014the very thing for a town life: his wife persuades him to go and make a call or two with her; they see some pleasant people, and talk of music possibly, and get into a hot argument on\u00a0<em>Church\u00a0<\/em>Reform: away he comes, and gives his wife the slip at Howell and James&#8217;s for a lounge at the Alfred or U. S. club; takes up the papers; sees himself quizzed, perhaps abused; goes home in a rage, resolves\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>to notice it; dresses for a large dinner-party without curiosity, interest, or appetite. And thus his days drag on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qYA-AAAAcAAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qYA-AAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PP4&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U3MW5X-_yq9jDeDp0pLNAEnc4pRNA&amp;ci=200%2C652%2C790%2C1080&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"454\" height=\"621\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>Do you long for two hundred pounds a-year? the pleasure of asking a few friends to a coffee-house dinner now and then? or a better room&#8217; where you could ask them? and more cash in your pocket for cakes, jellies, and ices? all this would not increase your enjoyments one tittle; nor would I advise you to alter your rigid economy as to &#8220;food, fire, and clothes,&#8221; if you have two hundred. On\u00a0<em>three\u00a0hundred\u00a0<\/em>you can make no<em>appearance\u00a0<\/em>more than on one. On four hundred, if you kept a horse and groom, you would be still the poorer; and so on.<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>I went to the Opera last night, (you are not to suppose I have\u00a0only 100l. a-year, if you please,) \u00a0(Getting my eight-and-sixpenny ticket of Marsh,\u00a0who has besides lots of private boxes at the Opera and Theatres to dispose of for a mere nothing!)and there, amidst a wonderful number of good-looking young fellows, all busy displaying their white kids, glasses, fancy waistcoats, nods to known boxes, &amp;c. sat one close to me who, not having the fear of ridicule very closely defined in his mind&#8217;s eye, must needs do a little bit of what he thought the right sort of thing; so he takes me a small, slender,\u00a0<em>economical,\u00a0ancient\u00a0<\/em>opera-glass out of his pocket, and with a marvelous\u2014(by the bye I forgot gloves !)\u2014pair of dirty gloves on, did so be-eye all the lovely girls round about, that I was tempted to a smile in pity, as I myself was carrying on the same play of my opera <em>double-barrelled<\/em><em>\u00a0gun,\u00a0<\/em>without however\u00a0<em>braqui-ing\u00a0<\/em>it point-blank at the pit tier, close to us, as my shabby friend did so unmercifully. To be sure, my glass was a\u00a0superb &#8220;<em>loup&#8221;<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>carrying a golden shot to the opposite upper circles, while my poor third rate dandy&#8217;s was in sooth a most lamentable brass pop-gun. What malicious devils are we!<\/p>\n<hr align=\"center\" width=\"25%\" \/>\n<p>Thus, of flash-houses (except the\u00a0<em>Tun\u00a0<\/em>in Jermyn Street),\u00a0<em>shades,\u00a0cellars,\u00a0finishes,\u00a0Offleys,\u00a0Gliddon\u2019s,\u00a0<\/em>White Conduit House, and\u00a0<em>Stingo\u00a0<\/em>tea-gardens, and\u00a0<em>lush-houses,\u00a0<\/em>I know absolutely nothing. Neither do I of shooting-galleries, divans, or billiard tables. I do not exactly object to them on the score of their best customers not being the kind of people one meets in the\u00a0<em>best\u00a0<\/em>society (or very rarely), but because they are expensive; on\u00a0<em>200l.\u00a0<\/em>a year a man might drop into these places now and then\u2014even smoke a cigar, as that sort of thing is now tolerated;\u2014and billiards is (for the bare pleasure of playing) a delightful game; why is it\u00a0<em>still\u00a0<\/em>so expensive? Tattersall&#8217;s is amusing; if you don&#8217;t\u00a0<em>bid!\u00a0<\/em>The Fives Court is dished! I always patronised sporting, and have walked to more than one\u00a0<em>milling match<\/em>; but, it became a cunning trade in\u00a0<em>the\u00a0fists\u00a0<\/em>of a few, lost its honesty; and is out of date: though it is worth while to look in at the\u00a0<em>lushing\u00a0<\/em>covies now and then at\u00a0<em>Spring&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>in Holborn, and one or two others; they are a hearty, brutal set of fellows, but still, I hope, true\u00a0<em>Englishmen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=31kFAAAAQAAJ&amp;dq=dining+london&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=31kFAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA500&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U0okvCit5h5dyJPKwg40Vb5fGI1Yw&amp;ci=111%2C812%2C851%2C714&amp;edge=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"489\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I\u2019m excerpting from a fun little volume titled The (Thorough-bred) Poor Gentleman\u2019s Book; or, How to Live in London on \u00a3100 A-year, published in 1835.\u00a0As usual, I can\u2019t find many images of fashionable men doing fashionable things without spending hours digging through archives. 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