How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters)
- Downloads
- Under 100
- Pages
- 238
About this book
Mary Owens Crowther's guide, with a 1922 copyright line, is subtitled A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence. The contents open with "What Is a Letter?" and "The Purpose of the Letter," then take the parts of a letter one by one: the heading, the inside address, the salutation, the body and the complimentary close. The acknowledgments also mention a chapter on telegrams.
The text argues that a good letter writer pictures the person who will receive the letter and chooses plain words to suit that reader, since simple language is no sign of poor learning. It discusses sales letters, including the view that a letter's power to sell falls as the price of the article rises, and letters meant to bring leads for salesmen. Another passage turns to the law of letters, with libel and the question of who owns a letter once it has been received.
Contents
About the author
More from this genre
See all- S Surveying and Levelling Instruments, Theoretically and Practically DescribedSurveying and Levelling Instruments, Theoretically and Practically Described
- A The Art of Story-TellingThe Art of Story-Telling
- C The Child's Book of NatureThe Child's Book of Nature
- A The American PrinterThe American Printer
- J The Jacquard Machine Analyzed and ExplainedThe Jacquard Machine Analyzed and Explained
- C Chats on Oriental ChinaChats on Oriental China
Books like this one
Discussion
No comments yet. Share a thought, a question or a favourite passage.
Copyright concern? Read our DMCA policy
Read or download
Public domain book This work is in the public domain and free of copyright. Anyone may read, download and share it.
- PDF 2.6 MB
- EPUB 1.3 MB
Downloads start right away. How to open EPUB on your phone
Book facts
- Author
- Mary Owens Crowther
- Reading time
- About 4 hours
- Pages
- 238
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online