We understand that you are desirous of opening an account with our firm. Will you favor us with two references, as we have hitherto had no business transactions with you? In all cases when cash payments do not accompany the orders received from firms personally unknown to us, it is our rule to ask for references.
We remain,
Yours obediently,
Singleton & Price.
55. To a Bank, asking a Confidential Opinion concerning a Firm in their City.
C——, May 15, 19—.
The Fifth National Bank of X——.
Gentlemen:—
We are about to engage in rather extensive transactions with the firm of Sullivan & Co., of your city, and as a matter of precaution we venture to ask if you can give us any information, in the strictest confidence, respecting their commercial position, and the estimation in which they are held.
Trusting that, if it is in your power, you will so far oblige us, and holding ourselves ready to reciprocate,
We remain,
Yours obediently,
Singleton & Price.