LETTER-WRITING.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2404, 19 December 1881, Page 4

LETTER-WRITING.

Youth of both eexea may learn from the following extract how to do that which many attempt and few do well. We refer to the art of letter-writing—a “lost art,” owing to pontal-carda and newspapers, but which, when done at all, should be bo performed as to show the writer to be a person of culture. A.b a rule, every letter, unless insulting in its character, requires an answer. To neglect to answer a letter, when written to, is as uncivil as to neglect to reply when spoken to. Ca the reply, acknowledge first the receipt of the letter, mentioning its date, and afterward consider a 1 the points requiring attention. , . , tf the letter is to be very brief, commence sufficiently far from the top of the page to •v-vo a nearly equal amount ot blank paper at the bottom of the sheet when the letter is fhe matter in the letter continue beyond the first page, it is well to commence a tetter above the middle of the sheet, extending as far as necessary on the other ft is thought impolite to use a half-sheet of paper in formal letters. As a matter of economy and convenience for business purposes, however, it is customary to have the card o£ the business man printed at the top of the sheet, and a single leaf is used, fa writing a letter, the answer to which is of more benefit to yourself than the person to whom you write, enclose a postage stamp for the reply. Letters should be as free from erasures, interlineations, blots and postscripts as possible. It is decidedly better to copy the letters than to have these appear, A letter ot introduction or recommendation should never be sealed, as the bearer to whom it is given ought to know the contouts.—“Hill’s Manual.”