The art of writing may not have changed much since Dickens' day, but the craft surely has.
Compare this list from Bleak House with the contents of your desk:

 a long list of items retailed by the legal stationer Mr Snagsby, together with
 “office-quills, pens, ink, India-rubber, pounce, pins, pencils, sealing-wax, and
wafers ... pocket-books, almanacs, diaries, and law lists; string boxes, rulers,
inkstands glass and leaden pen-knives, scissors, bodkins, and other
small office-cutlery”.

from "World Wide Word", June 9