| Description | This volume contains: memorandum showing in outline the course pursued by Government in regard to the Unclaimed Balance of Cash issued from time to time for payment of the Dividends on the Public Debt, etc. (c. 1861); note by Governor R W Crawford on the deposits and investments held by Bank between 1861 and 1870 (14 Feb 1871); letter concerning the issuing of Postal Notes (11 Feb 1876); extract from the minutes of the Court of Directors on the origins of the word cheque, with attached memo on the history of cheques and the origin of the word (1883); discussions (including correspondence between Kenneth Grahame and Sir James Murray, the lexicographer, 1904) on the history of the Pass Book; letter from Chancellor to Governor enclosing report by Edward Atkinson on talks with United States (US) Treasury (1887); correspondence with Freshfields and HM Treasury (HMT) on legislation relating to promissory notes (1894); a row with a customer over an unjustifiably dishonoured cheque (1897); correspondence concerning misunderstanding in a Bank circular regarding 'light gold' (1897); memo by Greene entitled 'Crisis in the money market and the investment of a portion of the Bank's deposits in realizable securities (consols)' (19 Apr 1897); correspondence from the managing editor of the Daily Mail newspaper concerning a story the newspaper wishes to publish on an alleged plot to rob the Bank of England (the Bank, thorugh deputy Secretary Kenneth Grahame wrote back saying the Bank knows nothing of this alleged plot (1898); Banque de L'Etat, St Petersburg, proposes training visit, 1897; Freshfield's report on the Judicial Trustee Act of 1896 (1899); note on a brief history and operations of the Royal Mint in Australia, specifically: Sydney, Melbourne and Perth (1899); correspondence between Greenwood & Greenwood Solicitors (Holborn) and Kenneth Grahame (Secretary of the Bank) regarding alleged information about the Solicitors' Bank account given to a third party (1899); correspondence between Kenneth Grahame (Secretary of the Bank) and the British Association concerning the latter's investigations into the amount of gold coinage in circulation in the United Kingdom, including the copy of a eply from Bank of England Alexander Falconer Wallace expressing regret that the Bank cannot help as it does not record or hold the type of data requested by the British Association (Feb 1907); Lord Rothschild's memorandum to the Governor on the Moratorium (the temporary suspension of financial business following the outbreak of war), August 1914; correspondence between Arthur Raffalovich (Commercial Attaché to the Russian Imperial Embassy in Paris) and the Bank of England (response drafted by John Maynard Keynes) about special facilities for Russian importers, 1915; discussions about the Finance Bill (Sec.25, 4) concerning the whole system of Income Tax (1915); correspondence concerning actions to prevent the German government's attempts to dispose of their Italian Government Bonds by passing them to banks in Brazil, Agentina and other South American countries through banks in Spain and Holland, and (separately) the actions of a German Agent named Albert Wolff (1916); communications between H Strakosch (Managing Director of Union Corporation Ltd) and Sir Brien Cokayne (Governor of the Bank of England) concerning the future realisation of gold (sell gold on the London market) (1919); a request to visit the Bank of England from Hussein Sirry Bey, Director General of the Egyptian Survey Department (1928); correspondence concerning revisions to the chapter on note issue in the revised edition of H P Sheldon's book 'Law & Practice of Banking' (1929); information regarding deceased pensioners and the Sinking Funds in relation to Scinde, Punjaub & Delhi Railway Annuities (1929, 1937 - 1939). |