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Lady disheartened after exchanging letters in a fitting manner (15)

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I believe the answer is:

correspondingly

'in a fitting manner' is the definition.

'lady disheartened after exchanging letters' is the wordplay.
'disheartened' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'after' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'exchanging letters' becomes 'corresponding' (to correspond is to send and receive letters).
'lady' with its centre removed is 'ly'.
'ly' after 'corresponding' is 'CORRESPONDINGLY'.

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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