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<DIV>When I went to open a bank a/c in 1966 with the Westminster, I was asked
whether anyone could give me a reference. I replied: “I believe my
[half-]brother works for your bank.”</DIV>
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<DIV>(I’ve suddenly remembered something irrelevant but comparable. A
friend of mine did Art History under Quentin Bell at Leeds. He applied for
a job at the “Daily Mail”. “What school did you go to?” My friend
emigrated to Australia.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Back to cheques. In “Zuleika Dobson”, when the Duke of Dorset gives
his landlady a cheque (presumably made out to CASH), he encourages her to go
that day to the bank to cash it, for she wouldn’t be able to cash it the
following day in view of his imminent suicide.</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=jeremy.hawthorn@ntnu.no>Jeremy Hawthorn</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 16, 2017 9:39 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vwoolf] Victorian logistics</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>What other possibility is there? Even in my youth in the 1950s tradesmen such
as the greengrocer and the milkman were paid in cash at the door. Cheques and
bank accounts were strictly for the middle classes.<BR></P>
<P>Jeremy H<BR></P><BR>
<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 15.06.2017 12:45, Stuart N. Clarke
wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>We all know about Leslie Stephen and the drama on Wednesdays over the
weekly books: see MoB, 2nd edn, p.144. After carrying on like 1 o’clock,
“he wrote out the cheque”.</DIV>
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<DIV>I don’t understand how the tradesmen get paid if only one cheque is
written out. Is the cheque written out to “cash”, Vanessa goes to the
bank & cashes it, and goes round to each tradesman, paying them in
cash?</DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR>
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