The complete letter-writer; or, polite English secretary. Containing familiar 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 many Originals, On Business, Duty, Amusement, Affection, Courtship, Marriage, Friendship, and Other Subjects. To which is prefix'd, A Plain and Compendious Grammar of the English Tongue. Also Directions for writing Letters, in an easy and proper Manner, And 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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- MDCCLXXV. [1775]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for Stanley Crowder, in Pater-Noster-Row, and Benjamin Collins, in Salisbury, MDCCLXXV. [1775]
Physical description
[12],264p. ; 120.
Edition
The fifteenth edition, improved.
References note
ESTC T89723
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.