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Sender: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:35:32 -0500
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Subject: Re: Your obedient servant......
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From: David Kiracofe <[log in to unmask]>
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Randy:  I've always been partial to JEB Stuart's "Yours
to depend upon" as a closer for correspondence.  I
think it conveys what was intended in the older "your
obedient servant," that is, not a literal servant, but
one on whom a correspondant could assuredly depend.

David Kiracofe
Texas Tech

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