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Andy Burnham, the then-health secretary, ended a letter in 2009 to the Prince of Wales with a handwritten: "I have the honor to remain, Sir, Your Royal Highness’s most humble and obedient servant." ...

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Lord Chesterfield’s advice on business writing, published in 1781, joined a heap of careful and voluminous 17th- and 18th-century attention to business correspondence.