The new art of letter-writing, divided into two parts. The first, containing rules and directions for Writing Letters on all Sorts of Subjects: with a Variety of Examples, equally elegant and instructive. The second, a collection of letters on the Most interesting Occasions in life. Wherein are inserted, The proper Method of addressing Persons of all Ranks; some necessary Orthographical Directions; the Forms of Messages for Cards; and Thoughts upon a Diversity of Subjects. The Whole composed on a Plan intirely new; chiefly calculated for the Instruction of Youth, but may be of singular Service to Gentlemen, Ladies, and all others, who are desirous to attain the true Style and Manner of a polite Epistolary Intercourse. By a gentleman of fortune, for his own Amusement and the Instruction of his Children.

  • Gentleman of fortune.
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1763
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London : printed for T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn, 1763.

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xii,348p. ; 120.

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The third edition, carefully revised and corrected. ..

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ESTC T196405

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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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