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

The guide explains the purpose and components of correspondence, systematically detailing headings, inside addresses, salutations, the body, complimentary closes, signatures, and superscriptions. It provides practical models for personal, social, and business correspondence, including invitations, acknowledgments, condolences, introductions, orders, complaints, applications, and promotional circulars, and offers guidance on form paragraphs and children's letters. Chapters treat telegrams, legal and cost considerations, stationery, monograms, and letterhead design, together with advice on tone, appropriateness, and common offenses to avoid. Emphasis is placed on a consistent, personal touch in business signatures and on specimen forms and etiquette to help writers produce clear, courteous, and effective letters.