All-time favorite 19th-century packing list for a minimalist S24O:
"I should be very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush are, I think all that we need." - character Sherlock Holmes, 'The Adventure of the Speckled Band', Arthur Conan Doyle, 1892