How to write a letter / [The Orain Company].

  • Orain Company.
Date:
[1914?]
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Credit: How to write a letter / [The Orain Company]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    _ LETTERS: THE LETTER ITSELF. . not unimportant. Next comes the question of how to write the letter itself. - ‘The first thing is to write clearly. You should try and write the lines. straight ' geross the paper, and not slanting up or straight, rule a page of notepaper with a thick black lines in ink, and slip it under ~ the paper on which you write, The lines will _ show through sufficiently to serve as a guide. give a good impression and be correct: The following are the subjects of the specimen letters given :— 1. Applying for a situation as clerk or warehouseman. (In place of the imaginary details given, you must, of course, state the facts about your own case.) 2. Answering an advertisement for a domestic servant. (Give the details of your own case.) 3. Applying to employer for an increase in wages. (Here, again, the If in any doubt how to spell a word, either sub- _ stitute some other ae that you do UBTTERS.: ly lowing pages will e found a number hich may be used ‘models, altering _ course, to suit the ‘stances about which _you have not suggested that you need copy each if, before writing a letter, you turn up the specimen in : this book and study APPLYING FOR A SITUATION, £5, Moreton Street, West Ham, April L0th, 1914, To Glassware,” “ Daily Chronicle” Office. Sir, In applying for the AKO as Warehouseman advertised in to-day’s “ Daily Chronicle,” d subunit the following particulars, Ll am 28, teetotaley, head ware (Wholesale Glass and China), at 32s. a week, but desire io better myself and would accept 35s. commencing. Ay employers will give me a good reference, and would increase iny wages if the previously employed by Mr. Wilson, of 91 and 93, East Street, as packer, but left to become head warehouseman with my present firm. I am a quick and clean packer, accustomed to keep stock book and look out orders, and could call jor an interview at any time. Yours obediently, WILLIAM CLEAVER, 5. Making an offer of marriage, (The case suggested in the model is that one child; you must, of course, cumstances). - 6. From a woman ; ing an offer of marriage, to marriage. the birth of a child. with one who has had a death in the family. 10. Toaschool- of a child. of Continued Hee bade 4). Via
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