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Enclose check for $400.00 to apply on account. Give shipping directions. Explain about the change in the firm, as Mr. Merrill has been buying from this house for some time. Ask for their latest quotations on Medium Young Hyson Tea, Rio Tapioca and Olives.

Paging. If a letter consists of more than one page, the pages should be numbered consecutively beginning with the second. The number of the page, the initials of the one to whom the letter is written and the date in figures should be placed at the top of the page. Examples: (2-M.&H.-1-26-04.) (2-W.H.M.-3-8-04.) Sometimes the date is omitted. (2-R.H.D.)

Do not write the signature alone or the complimentary close and signature on a page by itself. If necessary, leave three or four lines blank on the preceding page that a better division may be made.

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QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW AND DISCUSSION.

26. What is your plan or rule for dividing words at the end of a line in penwritten letters? In typewritten letters?

27. What is your opinion of a firm that will retain in its employ bookkeepers who make such errors as you found in the bills received from Schnull & Co. ?

28. Is a receipt necessary when a check is given payable to order? Why?

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This will introduce to you the bearer, Mr. George Arnold, of this city, who visits Hartford for the purpose of engaging in the shoe business.

Mr. Arnold is an energetic, capable business man and a thorough gentleman. He is worthy of your entire confidence.

Any assistance you may be able to render him in his new venture will be greatly appreciated by him and regarded as a personal favor by me.

Yours very truly,

C. C. Craft

Model Letter.

Letters of introduction and recommendation are similar, and should usually be short. That is, they should contain nothing except the introduction or recommendation, as it may be somewhat embarrassing to the bearer to wait while the one to whom he presents the letter reads it. Do not say too much about the merits of your friend. You can recommend or introduce him properly without ascribing to him all the virtues in the catalog, and such letters should

be absolutely truthful. They should not be sealed when they are given to the person recommended or introduced to present in person.

Write a letter of introduction for a friend who is going to spend his (or her) vacation in Washington, D. C., to some friend of yours in that city.

For envelope direction see Lesson V.

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