Timeline for Where to find an authoritative, official and old Reference to the Convention of Capitalization after a Letter Salutation?
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 17:22 | comment | added | michacassola | Yeah, I remember someone telling me that back than the pieces of paper being written on were a lot smaller, so it might have been done to save paper space? The script looks too perfect to have been handwritten. Also, I wonder how they would have measured the distance from the right to start the body to have that perfect alignment. | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 17:12 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | If we take the publication as being representative, they also used the comma + over-em-dash with no spaces, and no new paragraph indentation, in business letters. | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 17:07 | comment | added | michacassola | Thank you very much for your research and result! I just wished it was an English reference and not an American one. But it is interesting that back then Americans also used a comma instead of a colon. Thanks again! | |
| Dec 21, 2022 at 17:00 | vote | accept | michacassola | ||
| Dec 21, 2022 at 15:34 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 13:12 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 21, 2022 at 13:06 | history | answered | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 4.0 |