The court letter writer ; or the complete English secretary for town and country. Containing variety of original familiar letters on all manner of subjects and occasions ; intended as Models to form the Style on every Point essential to the Improvement of the Reader. Also a great Variety of the most elegant, entertaining and instructive Letters, extracted from the most celebrated modern Authors. The whole forming a Complete Library of Epistolary Correspondence, on Duty, Filial Affection, Parental Affection, Courtship, Love, Marriage, Friendship, Politeness, Taste, Behaviour, Amusement, Instruction, and Many other Subjects. To which are added, variety of poetical letters, or epistles, serious, humourous, and pathetic; sentimental and descriptive. Together with Cards of Compliment and Condolance; of Friendship or Affection; of Anger or Resentment. Also Rules to be observed in writing Letters, and all the different Forms of Address. To which is prefixed, a complete grammar of the English language. The whole upon a more extensive Plan than any thing of the Kind, and so calculated, that any Person may, in a short Time, be enabled to express his Thoughts with Elegance, Ease, Freedom and Propriety.

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1773
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London : printed for S. Bladon, No. 28, in Pater Noster Row, 1773.

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[2],vi,258p.,plate ; 120.

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ESTC T119272

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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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