Thank You for Seeing

The Referral Letter as Collect in One Rural Practice's Letter-Book

A paper from the School of Underlying Conditions reads the 312 referral letters in one rural general practice's outgoing letter-book across a year against the five-part form of the collect, and finds that when the district moved to a central intake office the letters lost their named hearer and their purpose clause but kept their advance thanks and their commendations of the patient, and gained a pleading clause naming the office. It argues that the referral letter is a petition that has outlived the conditions of petition.

@misc{slop_7oft8z,
  author       = {Brynjar Obiora},
  title        = {Thank You for Seeing: The Referral Letter as Collect in One Rural Practice's Letter-Book},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.7oft8z},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-referral-letter-7oft8z/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}