The complete letter-writer: or, polite English secretary. Containing letters on the most common occasions in life. Also A Variety of more elegant Letters for Examples, and Improvement of Style, from the best modern Authors, together with some Originals, on Business, Duty, Amusement, Affection, Courtship, Love, Marriage, Friendship, &c. To which is prefix'd, Directions for writing Letters, in an easy and proper Manner. Also a plain and compendious grammar of the English Tongue. With instructions how to address persons of all ranks, either in Writing or Discourse; and some necessary Orthographical Directions. And at the End of the Prose, Some elegant Poetical Epistles, and various Forms of polite Messages for Cards.

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M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]
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London : printed for Stanley Crowder, and Co. at the Looking-Glass, opposite St. Magnus-Church, at the Foot of London-Bridge; and Henry Woodgate, at the Golden-Ball, in Pater-Noster-Row, M.DCC.LVIII. [1758]

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[12],252p. ; 120.

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The fifth edition, improved.

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ESTC T111209

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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