London Labour and the London Poor, Vol. 1

by Henry Mayhew

ERRATA.

Page
5, line 45, second column, for 9,350 read 8,850.
6, line 39, first column, for 34,209 read 28,506.
line 43, for between thirty and forty thousand read between twenty-five and thirty thousand.
11, number of markets Surrey side, for 664 read 764.
number of markets Middlesex side, for 3,137 read 3,147.
first line, second column, for 3801 read 3,911, and for 102 read 105.
26, line 50, first column, for 75l. read 67l. 10s.; line 53, for 525l. read 405l.; line 57, for
6,300l. read 4,860l.
30, line 25, for 2l. each read 2l.
56, line 27, for 24,135l. read 23,775l.
line 28, for upwards read very nearly.
line 50, for 14,000l. read 9,750l.
line 54, for 6,500l. read 130l.
line 58, for 22,550l. read 17,400l.
line 36, second column, for between 1,250,000l. and 1,500,000l. read 1,040,000l.
63, line 13, for 5,040,000 lbs. read 4,940,000 lbs.
line 27, for 147,000,000 read 49,750,000.
line 36, for 24,300 read 22,067.
line 38, for 32,400 read 33,696.
69, line 38, for 263,281,000 read 263,261,000.
80, line 11, for 16,450 read 37,650.
line 14, for 171,000 read 175,000.
line 15, for 108,000 read 112,000.
line 16, for 24,000 read 26,800.
line 28, for 16,817,000 read 18,017,000.
line 31, for 221,100 read 221,200.
line 39, for 94,000 read 104,400.
line 41, for 32,900 read 37,900.
95, line 37, first column, for 6,270 read 6,240.
line 43, first column, for 1,960 read 1,950.
line 48, first column, for 15,300 read 15,200.
line 16, second column, for 333,420 read 332,400.
96, line 3, first column, for 333,420 read 332,400.
line 5, first column, for 292,000 read 292,240.
line 6, first column, for 626,420 read 625,640.
line 6, second column, for 2,087,270 read 2,086,490.
122, table, middle column, line 12, for 524,000 read 525,000.
table, middle column, line 21, for 524,000 read 525,000.
table, middle column, line 22, for 1,464,000 read 1,465,000.
130, line 4, second column, for 160 read 166.
139, line 12, second column, for 123,360 read 129,360.
142, line 46, second column, for 575 read 525.
144, line 7, first column, for 150,000 read 150,768.
line 33, first column, for 50 read 60.
last line, first column, for 2,867l. read 2,877l.
line 9, second column, for 1,183l. read 1,883l.
line 11, second column, for 2,774l. read 2,474l.
line 32, second column, for 210 read 160.
line 33, second column, for 1,667l. read 1,617l.
158, line 17, second column, for 13,949l. read 13,950l.
line 20, second column, for 520 read 572.
line 21, second column, for 28,504 read 28,557.
163, line 4, second column, for 19,448 read 21,910.
line 24, second column, for 12,102 read 14,586.
171, line 13, second column, for 3,031l. 11s. read 3,033l. 6s. 8d.
195, line 39, first column, for 1,452l. read 780l.
197, line 13, first column, for 3,000l. read 1,040l.
203, line 12, first column, for 300 read 100.
218, line 61, first column, for because read although.
line 63, first column, for no read an utter want of.
line 51, second column, for flummut read flummuxed.
325, line 48, second column, for 780l. read 3,900l.
329, line 43, second column, for 3,500 read 13,500.
line 45, second column, for 700 read 2,700.
line 46, second column, for 25,000 read 20,700.
line 47, second column, for 250 read 207.
340, line 57, second column, for vicapicated read incapacitated.
347, line 41, second column, for 23,410 read 23,400.
370, line 15, second column, for store read stone.
377, In the table of Hawkers and Pedlars for England, Wales, and Scotland, the Total for Wales
is placed below the Islands in the British Seas, but should stand above it.
388, line 43, first column, for 2,600 read 2,730.
392, last line, second column, for 384,400 read 1,872,000.
393, line 2, first column, for 3,120 read 3,900.
line 5, first column, for 4,680 read 3,900.
427, line 9, first column, for 1,250 read 1,300.
440, line 9, first column, for 2,340 read 1,950.
441, line 55, first column, for 692 read 702.
443, line 39, second column, for 1,850 read 1,950.
449, line 58, first column, for 1,190 read 1,690.

[INDEX.]

• Arts (fine), street-sellers of, [301];
• capital and income of, [306]
• Art (street), [301]
• Author and poet (street), experience of, [279]
• Ballad minstrelsy in the streets, ancient and modern, [273]
• Ballads (street) on a subject, [275]
• Back numbers, street sale of, [289]
• Beggar street-sellers, [363]
• Beggar street-seller, statement of a, [414]
• Beetle wafers, street-sellers of, [435]
• Billingsgate, description of, [64]
• Billingsgate market, quantity and weight of fish sold in, [63]
• Blacking and black-lead, street-sellers of, [425]
• Blind street-seller of boot-laces, [395]
• Blind female street-seller of small wares, [393]
• Blind street seller of tailors’ needles, [340]
• Blind boot-lace seller, life of, [405]
• Book auctioneers (street), [296]
• Booksellers (street), [292]
• Booksellers (street), experience of, [294]
• Books sold in the streets, character of, [293]
• Books (memorandum) and almanacks, street sale of, [271]
• Books (pocket) and diaries, street sale of, [271]
• Books (song), street sale of, [298]
• Books (children’s), street sale of, [298]
• Books (guide), street sale of, [299]
• Books (account), street sale of, [299]
• Boot and stay-laces, street-sellers of, [391]
• Boys of the costermongers and their “bunse,” [33]
• Braces, belts, hose, trowser-straps, and waistcoats, street-sellers of, [389]
• Bread, street sale of, [178]
• Broadsheets, street sellers of, [280]
• Buns (hot-cross and Chelsea), street-sellers of, [201]
• Butter, cheese, and eggs, [129]
• Cake, street-sellers of, [199]
• Cakes and tarts, street-sellers of, [198]
• Cards (engraved), street-sellers of, [266]
• Cards (gelatine), street-sellers of, [266]
• Cards (playing), street-sellers of, [266]
• Cards (race) and lists of races, street-sellers of, [265]
• Cards (short-hand), street-sellers of, [261]
• Card-counters, medals, &c., street-sellers of, [349]
• Cats’ and dogs’-meat, street-sellers of, [181]
• Cement for glass and china, street-sellers of, [429]
• Chaunters, experience of, [226]
• Cheap John, or street hansellers, [326]
• Cheap John, life of a, [336]
• Chemical articles of manufacture, street-sellers of, [425]
• Chickweed and groundsell, street-sellers of, [153]
• Children in low lodging-houses, [257]
• Children, causes which influence them to take to a street career, [472]
• Children as street-sellers sent out by parents, [479]
• Christmasing, laurel, ivy, holly, and mistletoe, street-sellers of, [141]
• Cigar lights or fuzees, street-sellers of, [433]
• Cigars, street-sellers of, [441]
• “Cocks,” &c., [238]
• Coffee-stall keepers, [183]
• Comic exhibitions, magical delusions, &c., street-sellers of, [286]
• Conundrums, street-sellers of, [285]
• Conveyances of costermongers and other street-folk, [26]
• Corn-salve, street-sellers of, [428]
• Costermongers, ancient calling of, [7]
• Costermongers and other street-folk, number of, [4]
• Costermongers, capital of, [29]
• Costermongers, capital and income of, [55]
• Costermongers, children, education of, [24]
• Costermongers, cries, rounds, and days of, [52]
• Costermongers, diet and drink of, [52]
• Costermongers, donkeys of, [29]
• Costermongers, dress of, [51]
• Costermongers, earnings of, [54]
• Costermongers, education of, [35]
• Costermongers, gambling of, [16]
• Costermongers, habits and amusements of, [11]
• Costermongers, homes of, [47]
• Costermongers, honesty of, [26]
• Costermongers, juvenile trading of, [35]
• Costermongers, language of, [23]
• Costermongers, literature of, [25]
• Costermongers, markets and trade rights of, [58]
• Costermongers, marriage and concubinage of, [20]
• Costermongers, nicknames of, [24]
• Costermongers, obsolete cries of, [8]
• Costermongers, politics of, [20]
• Costermongers, providence and improvidence of, [56]
• Costermongers, raffles of, [58]
• Costermongers, religion of, [21]
• Costermongers, removal from streets of, [59]
• Costermongers, tricks of, [61]
• Costermongers, uneducated state of, [22]
• Costermongering mechanics, [7]
• Costermongers and thieves, [46]
• Costermongers and thieves in bad weather and during the cholera, [57]
• Costermongers and thieves on their country rounds, [53]
• Costermongers and thieves, the more provident, [46]
• Costermongers and thieves, economically considered, [8]
• Coster boy, hired, [481]
• Coster girls, [43]
• Coster girl, life of a, [45]
• Coster lad, life of a, [39]
• Coster lad, education of, [35]
• Cough-drops and medical confectionery, street-sellers of, [205]
• Country lodging-houses, [423]
• Crackers and detonating balls, street-sellers of, [430]
• Crippled seller of nutmeg-graters, [329]
• Crockery and glass-ware, street-sellers of, [365]
• Covent-garden market, [81]
• Curds and whey, street sale of, [192]
• Cutlery, street-sellers of, [338]
• Death and fire hunters, [228]
• Dog collars, street-sellers of, [358]
• Dog-collar seller, life of a, [359]
• Dolls, street-sellers of, [445]
• Drinkables, street sale of, [183]
• Duffers, or hawkers of pretended smuggled goods, [383]
• Eatables and drinkables, street-sellers of, [258]
• Eatables and drinkables, capital and income of, street-sellers of, [208]
• Eatables and drinkables, sums spent yearly upon, [212]
• Elder wine (hot), street-sellers of, [189]
• Engravings in umbrellas, street-sellers of, [362]
• Female street-sellers, localities in which they reside, [461]
• Female street-sellers, education, state of, [462]
• Female street-sellers, diet of, [462]
• Fish, kind and quality of sold in London, [61]
• Fish season of the costermongers, [63]
• Fish, annually sold in the streets of London, gross value of, [77]
• Fish (“dry”) selling in the street, [77]
• Fish, fruit, and vegetables, stationary street-sellers of, [96]
• Fish, street-sellers of, [61]
• Flower-girls (London), [134]
• Flower-girls, life of, [136]
• Flower-girls, two orphan, [135]
• Flower roots, shrubs, and trees, quantity sold in the streets, [130]
• Flowers, buyers of those sold in the streets, [130]
• Flowers (cut and in pots), trees, shrubs, roots, seeds, and branches, street-sellers of, [130]
• Flowers in pots, roots, street-sale of, [137]
• Flowers, “cut,” quantity of sold in streets, [137]
• Flowers, trees, shrubs, table showing quantity of sold wholesale at markets and retail in the streets, [131]
• Fly-papers, street-sellers of, [435]
• Forestalling markets and Billingsgate bummarees, [67]
• French polish, sellers of, [427]
• Fried fish, sellers of, [165]
• Fried fish, preparation of, [165]
• Fried fish seller, experience and customers of, [169]
• Fruit (green) selling in the streets, [83]
• Fruit stall-keepers, [99]
• Fruit and vegetable season of costermongers, [81]
• Fruit and vegetables sold annually in London streets, gross value of, [95]
• Fruit, street-sellers of, [79]
• Fruit, kind and quantity of sold in the London streets, [79]
• Fruit (home-grown), quantity sold in metropolitan markets, and proportion sold retail in streets, [80]
• Fruit, foreign, [81]
• Fruit, “dry,” [81]
• “Gallows” literature of the streets, [280]
• Game, rabbits, and poultry, sold in the streets, [121]
• Game hawker, experience of, [124]
• Ginger-beer seller, experience of, [189]
• Ginger-beer, sherbet, and lemonade, street-sale of, [186]
• Ginger-bread nuts, street-sellers of, [199]
• Grease-removing compositions, street-sellers of, [427]
• Green stuff, street-sellers of, [145]
• Gutta-percha heads, street-sellers of, [434]
• Haberdashery swag-shops, [373]
• Ham-sandwich seller, experience of, [177]
• Ham-sandwich, street-sellers of, [177]
• Hawkers, pedlars, and petty chapmen, [374]
• Hawking butcher, experience of, [176]
• Hot eels and pea-soup man, experience of, [162]
• Hot eels and green-pea seller, experience of, [180]
• Hot eels and green-peas, street-sellers of, [180]
• “House of Lords,” a street-sellers’ defunct club, [364]
• Ices and ice-creams, street-sellers of, [206]
• Indecent (sham) street-trade, [240]
• Irish, causes which made them turn costermongers, [105]
• Irish, lodging-houses for immigrants, [111]
• Irish “refuse” sellers, [117]
• Irish, street diet, drink, and expense of living among, [113]
• Irish, education, literature, amusements, and politics of, [108]
• Irish, how they displanted the street Jews in the orange trade, [106]
• Irish, houses of, [109]
• Irish, history of some of the sellers, [115]
• Irish, religion of, [107]
• Irish, resources of as regards stock, money, sickness, burials, &c., [114]
• Irish, (street), [104]
• Irishwoman street-seller, an, [465]
• Jewellery street-sellers, [346]
• Lace, street-sellers of, [386]
• Lace-maker’s appeal, [364]
• Lavender, street sale of, [137]
• Literature, street-sellers of, [306]
• Literature, street-sellers of, capital and income of, [306]
• London, children street-sellers of, [468]
• Lot sellers, [447]
• Low lodging-houses of London, [251], [407]
• Low lodging-houses of the country, [258]
• Low lodging-houses, filth, dishonesty, and immorality of, [254]
• Lucifer matches, street-sellers of, [431]
• Manufactured articles, street-sellers of, [323]
• Manufactured articles, capital and income of, [485]
• Manufactured articles in metal, street-sellers of, [324]
• Manuscript and other music, [305]
• Markets (the London street) on a Saturday night, [9]
• Markets (the London street) on a Sunday morning, [10]
• May, palm, &c., street sale of, [143]
• Mechanic’s wife, a street-seller, [464]
• Milk selling in St. James’s-park, [191]
• Milk, street sale of, [192]
• Miscellaneous manufactured articles, street-sellers of, [436]
• Muffin and crumpet selling in the streets, [202]
• Newspapers, books, &c., sale of at railway stations, [291]
• Nut selling in streets, [89]
• Orphan girl, life of, [483]
• Orphan boy street-seller, [482]
• Onion selling in the streets, [93]
• Orange and lemon selling in the streets, [87]
• Orange and nut market, [86]
• Oyster selling in the streets, [75]
• Packman, statement of a, [379]
• Packmen or hawkers of soft wares, [377]
• Pastry and confectionary, street-sellers of, [195]
• Patterers, abodes, tricks, marriage, and characteristics of the different grades of, [243]
• Patterers, benefit society of, [242]
• Patterers, former and present state of, [215]
• Patterers, habits, opinions, morals, and religion of, [217]
• Patterers (running), [221]
• Patterers (running), experience of, [222]
• Patterers (running), recent experience of, [224]
• Patterers (standing), [232]
• Patterers (standing), experience of, [234]
• Pattering class, epitome of, [309]
• Pea-soup and hot eels, street-sellers of, [160]
• Pedlar jeweller, [347]
• “Penny gaff,” [40]
• Peppermint water, street sale of, [191]
• Periodicals, pamphlets, tracts, books, &c., street-sellers of, [289]
• Periodicals on the steamboats and steamboat piers, sale of, [290]
• Periwinkle selling in the streets, [76]
• Pickpocket, statement of a young, [410]
• Pictures in frames, street selling of, [304]
• Pieman, street, [195]
• “Pinners up,” or wall song sellers, [272]
• Pipes, street-sellers of, [440]
• Plantain sellers, [158]
• Play-bills, street sellers of, [287]
• Plum “duff” or dough, street-sellers of, [197]
• Poets and authors, street, [278]
• Poison for rats, [450]
• Political litanies, dialogues, &c., [236]
• Pot-herbs and celery, [94]
• Potatoes (baked), street-trade in, [173]
• Poultry and game, street purchasers of, [123]
• Poultry hawkers, statement of two, [125]
• Poultry (live and dead), game, rabbits, butter, cheese, and eggs, street-sellers of, [120]
• Poultry, live, and game, street sale of, [126]
• Prostitute, statement of a, [412]
• Public-house hawkers of metal spoons, [344]
• Publishers and authors of street literature, [220]
• Puddings (boiled), street-seller of, [197]
• Rabbit-selling in the streets, [129]
• Razor-paste, street-sellers of, [429]
• Reduced gentlewoman and a reduced tradesman, as street-sellers of stationery, [269]
• Religious tract-sellers, [241]
• Rhubarb and spice, street-sellers of, [452]
• Rice milk, street-sellers of, [193]
• Rings and sovereigns for wagers, street-sellers of, [351]
• Roasted chestnuts and apples, [90]
• Roulette-boxes, street-sellers of, [449]
• Runaway street-boys, two, [483]
• “Screevers,” or writers of begging letters and petitions, [311]
• Second editions, sellers of, [230]
• Seeds, sale of, [139]
• Sheeps’-trotter seller, statement of a, [171]
• Sheeps’-trotters, street-sellers of, [170]
• Sheeps’-trotters, preparation of, and quantity sold, [170]
• Shell-fish sellers in the streets, [69]
• Shrimp selling, [72]
• Single woman street-seller, a, [463]
• “Slang” weights and measures, [32]
• Small ware, street sellers of, [385]
• Smithfield races, [27]
• Snuff-boxes, street-sellers of, [440]
• Song sellers (long), [221]
• Songs, street-sellers of, [272]
• Spar, china ornaments, and stone fruit, street-sellers of, [370]
• Spectacle and eye-glasses, street-sellers of, [444]
• Sponge, street-sellers of, [442]
• Sprat selling in the streets, [69]
• Stationery, literature, and fine arts, street-seller of, [213]
• Stationery, street-sellers of, [267], [306]
• Stationers (street), and street card sellers, [261]
• Stationers (street), experience of, [267]
• Stationers (street), capital and income of, [306]
• Stalls (street), character of, [99]
• Stalls (street), number of, [96]
• Sticks (walking), street-sellers of, [437]
• “Strawing,” [239]
• Street children, amusements of, [476]
• Street children, clothing of, [476]
• Street children, diet of, [475]
• Street children, dwelling-places of, [475]
• Street children, education of, [472]
• Street children, morals, religion, opinions of, [474]
• Street children, propensities of, [477]
• Street-folk in general and costermongers in particular, varieties of, [6]
• Street-seller, “neglected” child, [480]
• Street-sellers, public meeting of, [102]
• Swag-barrowmen, [447]
• Swag-shops of the metropolis, [333]
• Sweet-stuff, street-sellers and customers of, [204]
• Sweet-stuff, street sale of, [203]
• Table-covers (japanned), street-sellers of, [388]
• Tally packmen, [380]
• Tea, hawking of, [455]
• Textile fabrics, street-sellers of, [372]
• Thieves, meeting of, [418]
• Tinware, street-sellers of, [354]
• Tinware, seller, life of, [355]
• Tobacco-boxes, street-sellers of, [440]
• Tools, street-sellers of, [361]
• Trees and shrubs, street sale of, [133]
• Trotting or hawking butchers, [175]
• Turf cutting and selling, [155]
• Turf cutter, experience and customers of, [157]
• Vegetables, street sale of, [91]
• Vegetables, aristocratic sale of, [92]
• “Vic” gallery, [18]
• Wandering tribes of this country, [2]
• Wandering tribes in general, [1]
• Wash-leathers, street-sellers of, [443]
• Waste newspapers at Billingsgate, sale of, [290]
• Watches (children’s gilt), street-sellers of, [353]
• Water-carriers, [194]
• Water-cress selling in Farringdon-market, [145]
• Water-cresses, table showing the quantity sold wholesale at “green markets,” and retail in the streets, [152]
• Water-cresses, street-sellers of, [149]
• Water-cress girl, [151]
• Whelks (pickled), street-sellers of, [163]
• Whelks (pickled), purchasers of, [165]
• Whips, street-sellers of, [438]
• Widow, street-seller, a, [467]
• Women street-sellers, [457]