Putnam's Phrase Book / An Aid to Social Letter Writing and to Ready and Effective Conversation, with Over 100 Model Social Letters and 6000 of the World's Best English Phrases

This practical phrase dictionary collects about six thousand ready expressions organized synonymously for conversation, social letter writing, and public speaking, followed by a guide to using the phrases, over one hundred model social letters across categories including condolence, congratulation, appreciation, introductions, invitations, recommendations, resignations, thanks, and replies, and a comprehensive index. The foreword emphasizes courtesy, optimism, and assistance in difficult tasks such as composing condolence letters, and the samples demonstrate ways to combine and adapt phrases. Readers are guided in composing their own social letters by consulting the phrase lists and the instructional sections.