[Vwoolf] Victorian logistics

[Stuart N. Clarke]

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.”

(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.)

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.

Stuart

From: Jeremy Hawthorn 
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2017 9:39 AM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
Subject: Re: [Vwoolf] Victorian logistics

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.


Jeremy H




On 15.06.2017 12:45, Stuart N. Clarke wrote:

  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”.

  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?

  Stuart

   

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