indented at its end one em from the right, but it is a better method to use the italic lower-ease of the text.[1] If there are two or more signatures, all of them should be set to line at their beginning. When the address is underwritten at the end of the letter, as is sometimes done in a formal correspondence, this address, which frequently consists of two or more lines, may have, if the space will permit, a diagonal indention in this fashion:
To Mr. Henry R. Braithwaite, President of the Society for Microscopical Research, New York City.
When space has to be filled and attempt is made at an open display of a letter which is addressed to many persons, each name should have a separate line, but all the names should line at the beginning, as has been suggested for the composition of signatures. The specification in separate lines of honorary titles or of any other particular should be always in the lower-case of the type of the text.
- ↑ The portions of the printed letter heading that need not be copied cannot be determined by the compositor. To be a proper be legal exhibit all words should copied, but there is often in these headings an amount of verbiage not required by a reader. The writer who does not wish to have copied a long list of society officials or directors and the numbers of the rooms in an office be building, with other irrelevant matter, should have this needless matter erased in the copy before it goes to the printer.
