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Abbreviation · Cut short

What does La. · La: mean?

Lady · Ladyship

Lady, cut short after La. After your, her or their it is usually Ladyship. L. alone is Lord or Lordship

Now and thenUnit 9

You’ll find it in letters and court records.

In practice lines

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Model letters: R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography (1927); Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570 and 1581); Giovambattista Palatino, Libro nel qual s’insegna a scrivere (1550); and manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library; all public domain. They stand in until Leo’s own model letters are drawn. Secretary letters typeset in Joscelyn by Peter S. Baker (SIL Open Font License).