Letter books

Andres Felipe Robayo Franco <robayo_andres [at] hotmail__com> writes

>I have some letter books, those that were used in the first half of
>the 20 century. They have in the first part an index and the second
>empty pages of copying paper, I would like to know if somebody can
>explain how they were used, I haven't found any explanation on how
>letters were copied to them. Were used with carbon copy sheets? or
>other media? How? Thanks for any explanation,

See paragraph 1.18 in this publication:

    <URL:http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/
        byauth/nadeau/copyingprocesses.pdf>

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    email. There should be no newline.

Luis Nadeau


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