Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information
(2025)
Book Chapter
Talbott, S. (2025). Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information. In Knowledge, Information, and Business Education in the British Atlantic World, 1620–1760 (50-78). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198926825.003.0003
Verbal exchange of information was commonplace, but many of these oral exchanges were immediately lost from record as they were not committed to paper. Drawing on merchants’ correspondence and letter-books, this chapter pieces together the role of or... Read More about Business Letters and the Oral Exchange of Information.