The compleat letter writer: or, new and polite English secretary. Containing letters on the most common occasions in life. Also, a variety of more elegant letters for examples, from the best modern Authors, 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; With a Spelling Dictionary, Of such Words as are alike in Sound, but different in Sense. Very useful to the English Scholar. And at the End of the Prose, some elegant Poetical Epistles, And various Forms of polite Messages for Cards.
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- 1756
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Also known as
Complete letter-writer.
Publication/Creation
London : printed for S. Crowder, and H. Woodgate, at the Golden-Ball, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1756.
Physical description
[18],252p. ; 120.
Edition
The third edition improved.
References note
ESTC T146268
Alston, III.246
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.