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--------------------+---------------------+-------------------- | Dear Mayor | Believe me, | Yours faithfully. | Mayor Rolph. | Rolph:  | Very truly yours. | | | | | | +--------------+-
--------------------+---------------------+-------------------- | Your | I have the honor to | | | Eminence:  | remain, | Your Eminence’s | His Eminence. | | Your Eminence’s | humble servant. | | | humble servant. | | +==============+====================
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=HOW TO ADDRESS IMPORTANT PERSONAGES=

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| If you are           | Envelope              | Formal beginning
| speaking,  you say:   | addressed:             | of a letter
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Roman Catholic | Your Grace           | The Most Reverend     | Most Reverend
Archbishop     |                      | Michael Corrigan,     | and dear Sir: 
(There is no   |                      | Archbishop of         |
Protestant     |                      | New York.             |
Archbishop in  |                      |                       |
the United     |                      |                       |
States)        |                      |                       |
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Bishop         | Bishop Manning       | To the Right Reverend | Most Reverend
(Whether Roman |                      | William T. Manning,   | and dear Sir: 
Catholic or    |                      | Bishop of New York.   |
Protestant.)   |                      |                       |
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Priest         | Father or            | The Rev.              | Reverend
| Father Duffy         | Michael Duffy.        | and dear Sir: 
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Protestant     | Mr. Saintly          | The Rev. Geo.         | Sir: 
Clergyman      | (If he is D.D. or    | Saintly. (If you do   | or
| LL.D., you call him  | not know his first    | My dear Sir: 
| Dr. Saintly.)        | name, write The       |
|                      | Rev. ...  Saintly.     |
|                      | rather than the       |
|                      | Rev. Mr. Saintly)     |
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Rabbi          | Rabbi Wise           | Dr. Stephen Wise,     | Dear Sir: 
| (If he is D.D. or    | or Rabbi Stephen      |