The complete letter-writer: or, polite English secretary. Containing 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 some Originals, on Business, Duty, Amusement, Affection, Courtship, Love, Marriage, Friendship, &c. To which is prefix'd, directions for writing letters, in an easy and proper Manner. Also a plain and compendious grammar of the English tongue. With Instructions 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.
- Date:
- 1757
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for Stanley Crowder, and Co. at the Looking-Glass, opposite St. Magnus-Church, on London-Bridge; and Henry Woodgate, at the Golden-Ball, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1757.
Physical description
[12],252p. ; 120.
Edition
The fourth edition improved.
References note
ESTC T61567
Alston, III, 247
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.