ph, including the heading and
the salutation, and should be written in 9 minutes. The second
exercise includes the rest of the letter and should be written in 12
minutes. Not more than one exercise should be given in one day.

Newark, New Jersey,
December 3, 1920.

Mr. Frank A. Hardy, Managing Editor,
National Insurance Journal,
Boston, Massachusetts.

MY DEAR MR. HARDY,

I am glad to make an immediate reply to your inquiry of December 1,
regarding Miss Henry's qualifications.

It is now eight years since Miss Henry first took a position with us.
She began as mail clerk, working up rapidly through the ranks, until she
became private secretary to Mr. Baldwin, President of the Central
Insurance Company, in which capacity she has served for four years,
becoming an important part of the institution. We have found her always
courteous, thoroughly efficient in her work, and absolutely reliable.

She is well equipped for a position on an insurance publication because
of her magazine writing, which she has been doing in connection with a
course in journalism at the university this year. She has been most
successful in this work and hopes to find time to do more of it during
the summer term if her schedule will permit. It was only because of her
great desire to continue her education that we were willing to accept
her resignation, and we knew that this year's work at the university
would mean a broader field for her in the future.

I am enclosing a record of Miss Henry's work, on the usual form kept
for each employee, showing the approximate progress she made during
her eight years with us and her increased value to the company, and I
am also sending under separate cover Miss Henry's photograph, as you
suggested.

Hoping I may hear from you further if there is any additional
information you require, I am

Very sincerely yours,

JOHN SMITH.

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