Meanwhile, new credit cards and travellers cheques were on order and would be ready for collection in the Ecuadorian capital, Quito.
He was there to collect a cheque for his charity for sick and underprivileged children.
O'Brien, who now lives in Newcastle where he is professor of creative writing at Newcastle University, received a cheque for £15,000 at tonight's ceremony, held at the Wallace Collection in central London.
The Vietnamese-born writer Nam Le has been awarded the 2008 Dylan Thomas prize, picking up a cheque for £60,000 at a ceremony in Swansea last night for his first collection of short stories, The Boat.
In addition, along with the blank questionnaire package at each 6-month data collection point, including at baseline, and regardless of how many family members participate, families are given a cheque for $40 as a token of appreciation.
I got a cheque for $3.19!
(He takes home a cheque for £1,000).
Sackville received a cheque for £5,000.
They would accept me writing a cheque for £50 with a cheque guarantee card (remember them?).
The maximum cheque for a married couple is $600.
