The complete art of writing letters. Adapted to all classes and conditions of life. Designed not only to finish the education of youth in general; but for every person that wishes to write letters well. Containing a Collection of Entertaining and Instructive Letters, as Examples for Improvement of Style; with An agreeable Variety of Original Letters on Education, Duty, Courtship, Marriage, Amusement, Business, Friendship, Compliment, Trade, and Modern Fashions; And a greater Number of them than are to be found in any other Book of this Sort. To which is prefixed, a compendious and useful grammar of the English language; with an Introduction, containing proper Directions how to address Persons of Rank and Eminence. The sixth edition; with the addition of some elegant poetical epistles, and forms of polite messages for cards. By Mr. Charles Johnson.

  • Johnson, Charles, active 1770-79.
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MDCCLXXIX. [1779]
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London : printed for T. Lowndes, in Fleet-Street; and T. Evans, in Pater-Noster Row, MDCCLXXIX. [1779]

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xii,252p.,plate ; 120.

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Alston, III, 298
ESTC T162103

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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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