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Title: How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters)
A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence

Author: Mary Owens Crowther

Release Date: August 2, 2007 [EBook #22222]

Language: English

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A STAR BOOK

HOW TO WRITE
LETTERS

(Formerly THE BOOK OF LETTERS)

_A Complete Guide
to Correct Business and Personal
Correspondence_

BY

MARY OWENS CROWTHER

GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
NEW YORK

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COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The forms for engraved invitations, announcements, and the like, and the
styles of notepapers, addresses, monograms, and crests are by courtesy
of the Bailey, Banks and Biddle Company, Brentano's, and The Gorham
Company. The Western Union Telegraph Company has been very helpful in
the chapter on telegrams.

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I
WHAT IS A LETTER? 1

CHAPTER II
THE PURPOSE OF THE LETTER 6

CHAPTER III
THE PARTS OF A LETTER
1. THE HEADING 10
2. THE INSIDE ADDRESS 12
3. THE SALUTATION 16
4. THE BODY OF THE LETTER 22
5. THE COMPLIMENTARY CLOSE 26
6. THE SIGNATURE 29
7. THE SUPERSCRIPTION 33

CHAPTER IV
BEING APPROPRIATE--WHAT TO AVOID
COMMON OFFENSES