With the increase of international intercourse in recent years, the needs for foreign materials have increased very much and documentalists have to acquire many foreign materials that cannot be obtained from ordinary bookstores. One of the ways for obtaining such materials is writing letters, and the author introduces some examples of letters in English for getting types of materials such as those related to business information, those of international conferences, papers obtained through personal contract, magazines obtained on exchange basis, and the missing issues of magazines.
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