FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54  
55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   >>   >|  
thirtieth. These acknowledgments, being formal, are written in the third person and must be sent within twenty-four hours. _Dinner "to meet"_ If the dinner or luncheon is given to meet a person of importance or a friend from out of town, the purpose should appear in the body of the invitation, thus: _Mr. and Mrs. John Evans Request the Pleasure of Mr. and Mrs. Trent's Company at Dinner on Thursday, November the Ninth at Eight o'Clock to Meet Mr. William H. Allen_ _To a formal luncheon_ _Mrs. John Evans Requests the Pleasure of Miss Blake's Company at Luncheon To meet Miss Grace Flint on Tuesday, March the Fourth at One o'Clock and Afterward to the Matinee_ _500 Park Avenue_ _Accepting_ Miss Blake accepts with pleasure Mrs. Evans's very kind invitation for luncheon on Tuesday, March the fourth at one o'clock to meet Miss Flint and to go afterward to the matinee 232 West Thirty-First Street _Regretting_ Miss Blake regrets that a previous engagement prevents her from accepting Mrs. Evans's very kind invitation for luncheon on Tuesday, March the fourth at one o'clock to meet Miss Flint and to go afterward to the matinee 832 West Thirty-First Street [Illustration: Specimens of formal invitations "to meet"] _For the reception_ Afternoon receptions and "At Homes" for which engraved invitations are sent out are practically the same as formal "teas." An invitation is engraved as follows: _Mr. and Mrs. John Evans At Home Wednesday Afternoon, September Fourth from Four until Half-Past Seven o'Clock Five Hundred Park Avenue_ These cards are sent out by mail in a single envelope about two weeks or ten days before the event. The recipient of such a card is not required to send either a written acceptance or regret. One accepts by attending the "At Home." If one does not accept, the visiting card should be sent by mail so that it will reach the hostess on the day of the reception. Where an answer is explicitly required, then the reply ma
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   43   44   45   46   47   48   49   50   51   52   53   54  
55   56   57   58   59   60   61   62   63   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74   75   76   77   78   79   >>   >|  



Top keywords:
invitation
 

luncheon

 

formal

 

Tuesday

 

fourth

 
required
 
matinee
 

Thirty

 

written

 

Street


person

 
Avenue
 

Afternoon

 

reception

 

engraved

 

Fourth

 

accepts

 

Company

 

afterward

 

Dinner


invitations
 

Pleasure

 

single

 
Wednesday
 
September
 
Hundred
 
thirtieth
 

hostess

 

visiting

 

explicitly


answer

 
accept
 

recipient

 

regret

 

attending

 
acceptance
 

envelope

 

prevents

 

November

 
Thursday

Requests

 

William

 

twenty

 
purpose
 

importance

 

Request

 

dinner

 

Luncheon

 

accepting

 
friend