How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters). Mary Owens Crowther

How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters)

How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) - Mary Owens Crowther

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       Credit and Collection Letters 193

       Letters of Application 211

       Letters of Reference 217

       Letters of Introduction 220

       Letters of Inquiry 223

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       THE USE OF FORM PARAGRAPHS 227

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       CHILDREN'S LETTERS 230

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       TELEGRAMS 236

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       THE LAW OF LETTERS 247

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       THE COST OF A LETTER 252

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       STATIONERY, CRESTS AND MONOGRAMS 258

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In the business letterhead appear the name of the firm, its address, and the kind of business engaged in11
Letterheads used by a life insurance company, a law firm, and three associations13
In the case of widely known firms, or where the name of the firm itself indicates it, reference to the nature of the business is often omitted from letterheads14
Specimens of letterheads used for official stationery27
As to the use of the symbol "&" and the abbreviation of the word "Company," the safest plan in writing to a company is to spell its name exactly as it appears on its letterhead42
Specimen of formal wedding invitation48
Specimens of formal invitations to a wedding reception51
Specimen of wedding announcement54
Specimens of formal dinner invitations60
Specimens of formal invitations "to meet"63
Specimens of formal invitations to a dance68
Specimens of business letterheads140
Arrangement of a business letter (block form)144
Arrangement of a business letter (indented form)145
Specimens of business letterheads used by English firms207
Specimens of addressed social stationery259
Specimens of addressed social stationery260
The monograms in the best taste are the small round ones, but many pleasing designs may be had in the diamond, square, and oblong shapes262
Specimens of crested letter and notepaper263
Specimens of monogrammed stationery266
Specimens of business letterheads267
Department stores and firms that write many letters to women often employ a notepaper size270
Specimens of stationery used by men for personal business letters271

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      It is not so long since most personal letters, after an extremely formal salutation, began "I take my pen in hand." We do not see that so much nowadays, but the spirit lingers. Pick up the average letter and you cannot fail to discover that the writer has grimly taken his pen in hand and, filled with one thought, has attacked the paper. That one thought is to get the thing over with.

      And perhaps this attitude of getting the thing over with at all costs is not so bad after all. There are those who lament the passing of the ceremonious letter and others who regret that the "literary" letter—the kind of letter that can be published—is no longer with us. But the old letter of ceremony was not really more useful than a powdered wig, and as for the sort of letter that delights the heart and lightens the labor of the biographer—well, that is still being written by the kind of person who can write it. It is better that a letter should be written because the writer has something to say than as a token of culture. Some of the letters of our dead great do too often remind us that they were not forgetful of posterity.

      The average writer of a letter might well forget culture and posterity and address himself to the task in hand, which, in other than the most exceptional sort of letter, is to say what he has to say in the shortest possible compass that will serve to convey the thought

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