My first thought was I should get this cheque to its rightful owner. But Joseph Mitchell died in 1997, so this was a payment to his estate. It's only for $10.25 (suspect it would cost me that much to post it back to the US). And can you even pay in a cheque that's 25 years old?
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The New Yorker employee who sent this letter no longer works there, but the agent is still going and still represents Joseph Mitchell's estate.
I probably bought this in 2007, already a little faded and dusty. So it had sat around in the agent's office and then the Strand bookstore for years with no-one spotting this letter while the cheque was valid.
So: what's my responsibility here? Do I contact the agent?
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