This section is from the "Everybody's Guide to Money Matters" book, by William Cotton. With a description of the various investments chiefly dealt in on the stock exchange, and the mode of dealing therein. Some account of the pitfalls prepared for the unwary, and suggestions to the cautious investor.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, Please place the amount of the enclosed cheques and notes to the credit of my account and acknowledge receipt to Yours faithfully JANE SMITH.
Cheque £20 0 0 Notes £45 0 0 ------- £65 0 0
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I shall be obliged by your sending me under registered cover to the above address £15 in £5 Bank of England notes for which I enclose my cheque. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I have to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of £15 in bank notes. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I shall be obliged by your transferring £300 from my current account to a deposit account and forwarding me the receipt. I enclose a cheque for the amount. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I shall be obliged if you will advise your Branch "(or some other Bank)" at Liverpool to pay me £20 on application. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I propose during the next two or three months to travel on the Continent accompanied by my niece, Miss Lucy Smith, and my maid, Jane Parker. Will you kindly obtain a passport for us and also forward me £100 in circular notes, for which I enclose my cheque. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I desire to send £120 to John Smith, residing near Winnipeg, in North America; and shall be obliged if you will send me the necessary form to remit to him so that he may obtain the money without difficulty or delay. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH.
"N.B. -- Remittances in this way can be sent to almost every town in the civilised world."
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I shall be obliged by your advising your Branch Bank (or some other Bank) in Leeds, to pay George Jones on application the sum of £54, for which I enclose a cheque and a specimen of Mr. Jones's signature. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I shall be obliged by your taking charge for me of some securities which you will find specified on the other side, and hold them for safe custody. Please also cut off and collect the coupons attached to the Bonds and place the amounts from time to time, as they fall due, to the credit of my account. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, I am desirous that the dividends or interest in my stock shall be paid to the bank direct for the credit of my account. Kindly send me the proper form or order for my signature. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Address__________________" Date__________________" The Manager, Blankshire Bank.
Sir, Please purchase on my account £500 stock 2 3/4 per cent. Consols at the market price, and send me an account of the same when I will forward my cheque in payment. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH. Blanktown.
Or
Please purchase £500 Preference "(stating which stock)" Stock in the Great Blankshire Railway, at a price not exceeding £150 per cent., in my name, and send me the account for the same, when I will forward my cheque for the cost. Yours faithfully JANE SMITH.
The same form can of course be adapted for selling out, by substituting "sell" for "purchase," writing "less" for "not exceeding," and omitting the line as to forwarding the cheque.
 
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