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If an enclosure accompanies the letter it should be mentioned in the body of the letter, and the word enclosure placed at the lower left-hand corner in order that whoever is responsible for placing the enclosure in the envelope may not be required to read the whole letter in order to see what is required. Nothing is more annoying than to receive a letter which was supposed to contain a draft or a circular or a sample of a textile or something or other and then find that the important enclosure has been omitted. "There ought t' be a heavy penalty," Abe Martin says, "fer writin' 'enclosed find clippin',' and then not puttin' th' clippin' in."

Very few business men do more than to read and sign their letters after they have