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+\documentclass[10pt,english]{hletter}
+%\documentclass[11pt,german,bruni]{hletter}
+
+\begin{document}
+
+\signature{Dr.~C. Featherstonehaugh & Dr.~A. Beauchamp \\ CEO & CIO}
+
+\reference{Impressions of Lausanne}
+
+\date{Lausanne, le 15 septembre 2008}
+
+\begin{letter}{Sir F. Treves, Bart.,\\
+ \textbf{Vevey.}\\
+ Switzerland}
+
+% if you want the top-right text to be in [..]s use {..} as well:
+\opening[\textsc{[draft]}]{Sir,}
+
+%The value of \verb+\chaptername+ is \chaptername.
+
+Lausanne, the capital of the Canton of Vaud, is the smaller of the two
+cities of the Lake. It stands on a green slope which glides, in
+leisurely fashion, from the wood which crowns its summit to the beach
+at its foot. The town is far up on this slope, being about a mile and a
+quarter above the port of Ouchy.
+
+Seen from the Lake, it is so discursive a city that no one could
+venture to define its outlines. Its houses are scattered in all
+directions, among trees and lawns, gardens and green fields. It is as
+if a drop of stone- coloured paint, falling from a height, had been
+spattered over a green cloth. It seems to be composed entirely of
+suburbs. If Chislehurst were given a cathedral and transferred to a
+lake-side it might pass muster for Lausanne, since there is nothing to
+suggest that this city of Vaud is so serious as it is or that it
+possesses 67,000 inhabitants.
+
+Lausanne when seen from a distance and Lausanne when viewed from within
+are two towns which are totally unlike. A more deceptive place does not
+exist. From afar Lausanne seems to occupy a hill-side as smooth as a
+cushion. There is nothing to suggest that it contains streets, much
+less railway stations, tramlines and shops. When, on the other hand,
+the place is entered it is found to be as irregular and tumbled a town
+as could be imagined, a place built in detachments without a plan, a
+labyrinth of streets, of green terraces and gardens, of slums and
+many-arched bridges all joined up with a \emph{central square} which is
+neither square nor central. To this very disorder the town owes much of
+its attraction, for the agreeable medley is due to the fact that
+Lausanne is located, not on an even slope, but on three abrupt hills
+separated by deep valleys. Were it not that these valleys are crossed
+by a series of bridges, life in Lausanne would consist in climbing up
+hill and in walking down again. Moreover, Alfred de Bougy, writing in
+1846, says that owing to the hills and the villainous paving, Lausanne
+was, in his day, practically inaccessible to carriages.\footnote{``Le
+Tour du L\'{e}man,'' par A. de Bougy, Paris, 1846.}
+
+The hills are round and are disposed in a triangle, like the balls of a
+pawnbroker's sign. They are the Cit\'{e}, the Bourg and St.~Laurent. On the
+Cit\'{e}, or predominant hill, are the castle and the cathedral. This mound
+is, and always has been, the high place of the town and the stronghold
+of its government. The Bourg was possessed by the nobles, by the
+merchants and by the great inns. St.~Laurent was a suburb occupied by a
+church and certain defence works. The poorer folk lived in the gutters
+between the hills. In one of these flowed the Flon and in the other the
+Louve. Their channels met at the Grand Pont ; but, within the actual
+compass of the town, both streams have now disappeared from view.
+
+From ancient prints\footnote{``Itinera Alpina,'' par J. J. Scheuchzeri,
+Ludg.~Bat., 1723. Tome ii.} it can be seen that old Lausanne was a very
+romantic looking town. Its three hills were crowned with castle and
+spire, with turrets and high- soaring roofs; while around it ran a
+zigzag wall pierced by gates and surmounted by many towers. The
+dwellings that made up the mass of the city were of dark wood with
+lofty gables. They huddled in the valleys like a drift of autumn leaves
+in a gully. Of the fortifications, no trace remains with the exception
+of one tower, the Tour de l'Ale, which stands near the Place du
+Chauderon on the St.~Laurent hill. It is a high round tower of the days
+of the musketeers, which finds itself now very inappropriately placed
+in a modest street of private houses.
+
+\closingtwo{Yours Faithfully,}
+
+\vspace{2cm}
+\cc{All Smiths in London\\ Mademoiselle S. Curchod}
+
+\encl{Tourist guide to Switzerland.\\ Plan of Cully.}
+\vfill
+
+\end{letter}
+
+\end{document}