The Promemoria in the XVIII Century Regional Business Documentation: Its Functional Orientation and Genre Speciﬁcs
This article is based on the materials of the 18th-century business writings of Eastern Siberia and devoted to the question of genre speciﬁcity and functional orientation of ‘promemories’ in the system of the emerging clerical paperwork. The promemoria explicated a new type of inter-institutional relations and was used for correspondence between institutions being out of direct subordination. There were two types of the Promemoria: notifying-administrative and notifying-reporting ones.