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retrouver. Du reste, les billets de banque etaient fort 

 connus en France, ou la Banque de Law leur avait 

 valu une facheuse celebrite, et comma on ne voulait 

 plus de papier monnaie, I'exemple de la Banque de 

 SuMe n'aurait eu aucune chance d'etre suivi. 



Si M. Inglis Palgrave voulait bien nous dire ou il a 

 puise sa citation nous continuerions nos reeherches. 



Avec le regret de ne pouvoir vous renseigner plus 

 compl6tement, je vous prie d'agreer, Monsieur, I'assu- 

 rance de ma consideration tr^s distingu^e. 



Le Secretaire General. 



M. Talbot Agar, 

 Secretaire de L'Institut des Banquiers, 

 34 Clements Lane, E.C. 



On this he wrote to the Bank of Sweden : 



ISth May 1902. 



Sir — I do myself the pleasure of sending you a 

 Copy of a little book of mine on Coins and Currency. 



May I call your attention to page 106 ? 



Neither Mr. Palgrave nor the Bank of France have 

 been able to give me any information as to the 

 " Enquete." Mr. Agar, Secretary of our Central Associa- 

 tion of Bankers, of which I have the honour of being 

 President, has written to Sweden, but has also been 

 unable to obtain any particulars. 



If you can give me any information on the subject 

 or any particulars as to the early issue of Bank notes 

 in Sweden, I should be greatly obliged. — I am, yours 

 faithfully, Avebury. 



The President, 

 The Bank of Sweden, 

 Stockholm. 



But they, too, were unable to give him any 

 information. 



He did not hmit his inquiry to more recent 

 times, requesting aid of Mr. Wallis Budge, who 

 writes thus of some very early business trans- 

 actions and records : 



