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In the Driftway
June 26, 1929 issue

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This article focuses on letter writing. Today letter writing is said to be a lost art. But the enormous development of the tribe of stenographers, and the fact that few business or professional men are now without such a ready aid, has vastly increased the amount of purely formal and futile letter-writing in which people indulge, as well as made it incomparably more careless and verbose. Also the stenographer has made men lazy about writing themselves and it is in that small margin of correspondence which most of us still feel must be written personally that people most resent the needless letter.

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LETTER writing; INTERPERSONAL communication; WRITTEN communication; STENOGRAPHERS; WHITE collar workers; SHORTHAND
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