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<DIV>How do poor old Norwegians transfer money?</DIV>
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<DIV>Should I get out my quill pen, and advise my ex in Australia, who does not
have a mobile phone, a computer or a television, not to move to Norway?</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> Thursday, July 20, 2017 8:18 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=vwoolf@lists.osu.edu>vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Vwoolf] checks cheques and bills</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>This is from Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford's <I>The Inheritors</I>
(1901).</P>
<P><FONT color=#ff0000>One day, indeed, the matter was brought home to me by the
receipt from Polehampton of bills instead of my usual cheques. I had a good deal
of trouble in cashing the things; indeed, people seemed to look askance at
them.</FONT> <BR></P>
<P>From the SOED I gather that a "bill" in this context is the equivalent of a
promissory note. But how did such a bill work? Incidentally, the writer/narrator
is in Paris, so the assumption seems to be that a cheque or bill written in
England could be cashed in France. It was not so when I grew up.</P>
<P>I write this two days after telling a US publisher that it's not much use
sending me a check, as no-one uses them in Norway any more. The last one I wrote
here was about a decade ago I think, and my local bank charges 400 kroner (about
60 US dollars) to cash a US check.</P>
<P>Jeremy H<BR></P><BR>
<DIV class=moz-cite-prefix>On 17.07.2017 13:07, Stuart N. Clarke
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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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