The Sure Memory of the Management.

This collation of correspondence forms what is termed a “file,” and these files may in turn be styled the automatic or composite memory of the Management.

The Records Divison does not actually write letters. One of its primary duties is to put up to executives for decision, and to officials delegated to institute further inquiry or dictate replies, all information bearing in any way on a point raised in a communication. An inward letter, be it a single sheet or half-a-dozen typed pages, boiled down and stripped of its packing, shews up one point, and the finding of this one point is the guide which every Record Clerk and his assistants seek to enable them to allocate memoranda to the relative files, which in turn show all previous arguments bearing on the warp and woof of the subject.