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A document in the text is made distinguishable and more impressive by setting it in type one size smaller than the text type, beginning it with a plain two-line letter and omitting quotation-marks.

Nor do extracts in the form of letters need quotation-marks when set in a smaller size of type. It is a needless affectation of precision to insert quotation-marks at the beginning of each separate line or paragraph, when it is unmistakably apparent that the letter is an insertion.

In the reprinting of a letter it has been customary to imitate the letter-writer's arrangement of words