The new and complete British letter-writer; or, young secretary's instructor in polite modern letter-writing. Containing near Four Hundred Original, Plain, Easy, Instructive, and Entertaining Letters on the most useful and important Subjects, particularly Education, Business, Friendship, Love and Courtship, Marriage, Wit and Humour, Instruction, Advice, Compliments, Condolance, Religion and Morality, &c. &c. Together with Letters to and from Parents, Children, Brothers, Sisters, and other Relations, As well as on every other interesting Subject throughout Life. The whole calculated to enable the Reader to write Letters on all Occasions, without any further Instructions. With A Concise and Familiar English Grammar. To which are added, Directions for addressing Persons of all Ranks either in Writing or Discourse. And A Set of Genteel Complimentary Cards. Likewise The Petitioner's Instructor, Containing The Art of Writing Petitions to Superiors; Also Useful Forms of Law, as Wills, Bonds, &c. &c. And other instructive Articles, necessary to be known by all Persons. By David Fordyce, M.A.

  • Fordyce, David, 1711-1751.
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[1790?]
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London : printed for C. Cooke, No. 17, Pater-Noster-Row, And sold by all other Booksellers in Great-Britain, [1790?]

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240p. ; 120.

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Alston, III.406
ESTC T13268

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