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• The great English letter writers; with introductory essays and notes (Fleming H. Revell company, 1908), by Willism James Dawson and Coningsby Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Paston Letters, 1422-1509 A.D.: A New Edition, Containing Upwards of Four Hundred Letters, Etc., Hitherto Unpublished (3 volumes; Westminster: A. Constable, 1895), ed. by James Gairdner (all volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509: New Complete Library Edition (6 volumes; London: Chatto and Windus; Exeter: J. G. Commin, 1904), ed. by James Gairdner (HTML and zipped PDF at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 1 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 6 (of 6), Part 2 (Index): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 6 (of 6), Part 1 (Letters, Chronological Table): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 5 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 4 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 3 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Paston Letters, A.D. 1422-1509. Volume 2 (of 6): New Complete Library Edition, ed. by James Gairdner (Gutenberg ebook)

• Die orthographie der Paston letters von 1422-1461. Ein beitrag zur geschichte der englischen orthographie. (N. G. Elwert, 1904), by Georg Karl Neumann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bedeutung und Entwicklung der Salutatio in den mittelalterlichen Briefstellern bis zum 14. Jahrhundert. (H. Adler, 1912), by Paul Karl Friedrich Krüger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Women's letters from ancient Egypt, 300 BC-AD 800 (University of Michigan Press, 2006), by Roger S. Bagnall, Evie Ahtaridis, and Raffaella Cribiore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Emendationum Frontonianarum particula : dissertatio inauguralis quam amplissimi philosophorum ordinis auctoritate atque consensu in Academia Georgia Augusta ad summos in philosophia honores capessendos ([s.l.], 1871), by Rudolf Klussmann (page images at HathiTrust)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

• Letters as Loot: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Dutch (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2014), by Gijsbert Johan Rutten and M. J. van der Wal (PDF files with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)

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• The Art of Social Letter Writing: Twelve Charming Studies (Chicago: Correct English Pub. Co., c1909), by Josephine Turck Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing, by Lewis Carroll (HTML at FireBlade)
• A Letter Book, Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922), ed. by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text)
• Lee's home and business instructor. (Laird & Lee, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of letters, what letters to write for every purpose, business and social. The etiquette of correspondence (Nelson Doubleday, 1923), by Mary Owens Crowther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of letter-writing (H. Holt and company, 1911), by Laura Emma Lockwood and Amy R. Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fashionable American letter writer; or, The art of polite correspondence. Containing a variety of plain and elegant letters on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, & c. With forms of complimentary cards. To the whole is prefixed, directions for letter writing, and rules for composition. (B. Olds, 1839) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new standard business and social letter-writer; business, family and social correspondence, refined love-letters, marriage proposals, acceptances and refusals, etiquette, synonyms, legal forms, etc. ... (Laird & Lee, 1911), by Alfred B. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Putnam's phrase book; an aid to social letter writing and to ready and effective conversation, with over 100 model social letters and 6000 of the world's best English phrases (Putnam's Sons, 1919), by Edwin Hamlin Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new parlor letter writer, containing a great variety of letters on the following subjects: relationship, business, love, courtship & marriage, friendship, & miscellaneous letters, law forms, etc. (G. H. Derby & co., 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classical English letter-writer : or, Epistolary selections; designed to improve young persons in the art of letter-writing, and in the principles of virtue and piety. With introductory rules and observations on epistolary composition; and biographical notices of the writers from whom the letters are selected ... (Printed by T. Wilson and sons for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London: and for Wilson and sons, York, 1814), by Elizabeth Frank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter-writer's vade-mecum and dictionary supplment; a complete handbook to the epistolary art (Grant, 1908), by R. D. Blackman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Harḳavy's Ameriḳanisher briefenshṭeler un speller =Harkavy's American letter writer and speller (Hebrew Pub. Co., 1902), by Alexander Harkavy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amerikahay namakani : Barekamakan, ěntanekan, hordorakan, shnorhaworakan, tsʻawaktsʻakan, harsanekan, sirayin ew aṛewtrakan namakner (E.A. Yeran, 1914), by H. H. Chakmakjian (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of epistolary composition, or Models of letters, billets, bills of exchange ... to which are added, a collection of fables ... for pupils learning the French language; a series of letters between a cadet and his father, describing the system pursued at the American, literary, scientific and military academy at Middletown, Conn. ... and a discourse on education, by Capt. Alden Partridge ... (E. & H. Clark, 1826), by François Peyre-Ferry and Alden Partridge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scales for measuring special types of English composition (World book company, 1921), by Ervin Eugene Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The great English letter writers (Fleming H. Revell company, 1908), by William James Dawson and Coningsby Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second post, a companion to "The gentlest art" (The Macmillan Company, 1910), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter book (G. Bell, 1922), by George Saintsbury (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Irvine's dictionary of titles ... Containing authentic information on the etiquette of correspondence, official forms of address, superscriptions, closing forms of letters, including federal, state, ecclesiastical, military and nava customs ... (Crown publishing company, 1912), by Leigh H. Irvine (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to write; meeting the needs of everyday life (The Ronald press company, 1930), by John Mantle Clapp and Homer Heath Nugent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter writing, business and social (The J. C. Winston company, 1914), by Helen Cramp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of letter writing; a practical manual covering the whole field of correspondence (Sully and Kleinteich, 1913), by Nathaniel C. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of correspondence: (De Wolfe, Fiske and company, 1883), by John Staples Locke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Del segretario, libri quattro, ne quali si tratta dell'arte, e facolta del segretario, della istitutione, e vita di lui nella republiche, e nelle corti, della lingua, e dell'arteficio dello scriuere, del soggetto, stile, & ordine della lettera, de i titoli, e dell cifre; dei generi universali delle lettere, e delle specie loro, delle istruttioni, e dei memoriali; e si denoiluoghi, le forme, le regole, fli essempi, con chiarezza, e breuità. Con un'indice ... (Appresso gli Heredi di D. Zenaro, 1643), by Panfilo Persico (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité général du stile, avec un traité particulier du stile epistolaire (J. Schreuder & P. Mortier, 1758), by Eléazar Mauvillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le secrétaire canadien; lettres pour toutes les circonstances de la vie. (Lettres de félicitations, de condoléances, du jour de l'an, d'invitations, etc.) Discours, requêtes, adresses, santés à porter, demandes d'emploi, pensóes pour album, etc., etc. (N.F. & V. Guertin, 1890), by Pierre Napoléon Breton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cómo deben escribirse las cartas; indicaciones útiles y curiosas. (Cabaut, 1908), by R. Monner Sans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Il segretario principiante, ed istruito. Diviso in due parti di lettere in questa terza impressione, ricorretto, ed accresciuto di nuove lettere, di titolario, e di formole di patenti, e di altre spedizioni. (Stamperia di G. Placho, 1710), by Isidoro Nardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il segretario principiante, ed istruito. Diuiso in due parti di lettere. Corretto, ed accresciuto di nuove lettere, di titolario, e di formole di patenti, e di altre spedizioni. (Longhi, 1711), by Isidoro Nardi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art; a choice of letters (The MacMillan company, 1907), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar letters on important occasions (G. Routledge and sons, ltd., 1928), by Samuel Richardson and Brian W. Downs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms, educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ... : and a complete guide to parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference ... (A.C. Thomas, 1884), by G. A. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• On letter writing (Isbister & company, limited, 1896), by Anthony Wilson Thorold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-book of punctuation, with instructions for capitalization, letter-writing, and proof-reading. (A.S. Barnes, 1878), by W. J. Cocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• National capital code of etiquette (A.N. Jenkins, 1920), by Edward S. Green (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fuldständig norsk-amerikansk brev- og formularbog : indeholdende--norsk-dansk sprogläre, anvisning til affattelsen af alle slags breve, formularer for forretningspapirer og legale dokumenter, undervisning i bogholderi, postlovene, amerikansk mynt, mål og vägt, rentetabeller, pristabeller, hvedetabeller og månedslönstabeller (J. Anderson Pub. Co., 1921), by O. M. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Effective English and letter writing; a practical drill in the principles of grammar and their application to business forms, customs and usages, consisting of a series of carefully graded lessons that trace by easy steps the natural development of the subjects treated. (Ellis Publishing Company, 1912), by Wylie Wesley Kennedy and Thomas Bayard Bridges (page images at HathiTrust)
• Applied business correspondence (A.W. Shaw company, 1922), by Herbert Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Success in letter writing, business and social (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1913), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letter-writer's handbook (Browne & Howell Company, 1914), by John Rexburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters and letter writing as means to the study and practice of English compositon (Bobbs-Merrill, 1903), by Charity Dye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Military correspondence, reports and orders (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921), by Lucius Hudson Holt, Clesen Henry Tenney, James Gilbert Taylor, and James Joseph O'Hara (page images at HathiTrust)
• La vera corrispondenza commerciale e famigliare, moderna inglese-italiana raccolta di lettere moderne autentiche commerciali scritte da competenti corrispondenti di case primarie di Londra, New York, Liverpool, Glasgow, ecc., numerose parole e formule usate nel commercio (F. Casanova & cia, 1927), by A. de R. Lysle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical English for high schools (American book company, 1916), by William Dodge Lewis and James Fleming Hosic (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new century standard letter-writer : business, family and social correspondence, love-letters, etiquette, synonyms, legal forms, etc. (Laird & Lee, 1900), by Alfred B. Chambers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter writing in action (C. F. Braun, 1947), by Carl F. Braun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Writing letters (The H.M. Rowe Company, 1930), by Charles Gottshall Reigner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms (Fairbanks, Palmer & co., 1884), by George A. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spelling and letter writing : a textbook for use in commercial schools, normal schools, colleges, academies, and high schools. ([Spencer, Felton & Loomis], 1889), by Henry Thomas Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of letters, what letters to write for every purpose, business and social. The etiquette of correspondence (Garden City Pub. Co., 1922), by Mary Owens Crowther (page images at HathiTrust)
• The social letter (Brentano's, 1918), by Elizabeth Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great English letter-writers (Hodder and Stoughton, 1909), by W. J. Dawson and Coningsby Dawson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new English letter-writer; or, Whole art of general correspondence ... (Hogg, 1770), by George Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art, a choice of letters (Methuen & co., 1907), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Divrē sēfer. (Wilna, 1888), by Moses Kukilshtein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vereinigten Staaten Briefsteller; oder, Anleitung zur richtigen Abfassung aller in den allgemeinen Lebensverhältnissen, sowie im geschf̈tsleben der Vereinigten Staaten vorkommenden Briefe, Aufsätze, Urkunden. (Philadelphia, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms, educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ... and a complete guide to a parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference (Fairbanks, Palmer, 1882), by George Arthur Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Key to English letter writing. (Chʻun-i Book Co., 1919) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• How to write letters; a manual of correspondence, showing the correct structure, composition, punctuation, formalities, and uses of the various kinds of letters, notes, and cards. (C. Sower company, 1880), by James Willis Westlake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letter writer's own book, or, The art of polite correspondence ; containing a variety of plain and elegant letters...to which are added forms of mortgages, deeds, bonds, powers of attorney, etc. (J.B. Perry, 1848) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social letters : models for use in the higher grades of our Catholic schools. (Boston School Supply Co., 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States letter writer (Schaefer & Koradi, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letter writer: containing a great variety of letters on the following subjects: relationship - business - love, courtship, and marriage -friendship, and miscellaneous letters: (G. Davidson, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch der korrespondenz und briefsteller. Belehrungen über den stil, beschaffenheit und form der briefe im innern und aussern, titelwesen, kunst- und fremdwörter u.s.w. sowie vorlagen für briefe aller gattungen, eingaben, gesuche, verträge etc zum selbstunterricht sowie für handels-, gewerbe-, sonntags- und sonstige fortbildungs-schulen. (s.n., 1886), by Oskar Klemich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martine's perfect letter writer : and American manual of etiquette, combined. : A work for the use of ladies and gentlemen, containing over 300 model letters : including a complete code of etiquette. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866), by Arthur Martine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fullständigaste engelsk-svenska brefställaren för svenska folket i Amerika. (Engberg & Holmberg, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to official letter writing, orders, etc. (Gale & Polden, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Česko-anglický tlumač pro čechy americké (A. Geringer, 1907), by F. B. Zdrůbek (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great English letter writers (Harper., 1908), by W. J. Dawson and Coningsby Dawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second post : a companion to "The gentlest art" (Methuen, 1910), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American-German letter-writer : a complete guide to correspondence on all subjects of everyday life, with an introduction on penmanship, orthography, punctuation, grammar, style, necessary rules about letters ... (G. Brumder, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The secretary, and complete letter writer; containing a collection of letters upon most occasions and situations in life. To which is added, an essay on letter writing (Knott & Lloyd [etc., etc.], 1803) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classical English letter-writer, or, Epistolary selections : designed to improve young persons in the art of letter-writing and in the principles of virtue and piety : with introductory rules and observations on epistolary composition, and biographical notices of the writers from whom the letters are selected (Caleb Richardson, 1816) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art : a choice of letters by entertaining hands. (The Macmillan Company, 1908), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gossip about letters and letter-writers. (Edmonston and Douglas, 1870), by George Seton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New universal letter writer, or, Complete art of polite correspondence : containing a course of interesting letters on the most important, instructive, and entertaining subjects ... To which is added Dr. Johnson's essay on letter writing; a set of complimental cards... and a minister's advice to a young lady. To the whole is prefixed a plain and easy grammar of the English language... and rules for reading with propriety. (Published and sold by D. Hogan, 1818) (page images at HathiTrust)
• American fashionable letter writer, original and selected, containing a variety of letters on business...with forms of complimentary cards. To the whole are prefixed directions for letter writing, and rules for composition. (Merriam, Moore, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from queer and other folk : a manual for teachers (Macmillan, 1899), by Helen M. Cleveland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A lady and her letters (Thomas J. Flynn, 1904), by Katherine Eleanor Conway (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new and complete letter writer, or, New art of polite correspondence : containing a course of interesting original letters on the most important, instructive, and entertaining subjects : which may serve as copies for indicting letters on the various occurrences in life : and a set of complimentary cards, suited to the various occasions on which an extraordinary degre of politeness should be observed (Evert Duyckinck, no. 68 Water-Street, 1817), by Thomas Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new and complete letter writer, or, New art of polite correspondence. (Published for the trade, 1832), by Thomas Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fashionable American letter writer, or, The art of polite correspondence ... (Benjamin Olds ;, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fullständigaste engelsk-svenska brefställaren för svenska folket i Amerika : formulär-bok för bref och handlingar, som förekomma i allmänna lifvets och affärslifvets förhållanden : med engelsk uttalslära och svensk rättskrifningslära, jemte fullständiga mynt- mått- och vigt-tabeller för engelskt-amerikanska, metriska och svenska systemerna med jämförelser och förvandlingar; intresse-, stycketals-, vecko-, och månadsaflönings-, spanmåls-, trävaru- (lumber- ), m. fl. slags tabeller, samt fullständig handledning i praktiskt bokhålleri. (Engberg-Holmberg Pub. Co., 1903) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The etiquette of correspondence (A. Wessels company, 1900), by Helen E. Gavit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The epistolary guide : containing models of juvenile letters, on familiar subjects with topics for the exercise of youth : also, forms of orders, agreements, bills, bonds, receipts, &c with observations on commercial letters to which is added a dissertation on epistolary correspondence with some easy and practical rules necessary to be observed by those who would wish to aquire a facility in that kind of composition : for the use of schools (Printed by S. Marks, 1817), by James Hardie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Up to date practical letter writer (C.C. Thompson Co., 1912), by E. J. Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parlour letter-writer, and secretary's assistant : consisting of original letters on every occurence in life, written in a concise and familiar style, and adapted to both sexes, to which are added, complimentary cards, wills, bonds, &c (Thomas, Cowperthwait, 1845), by R. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• How to write lettrs : a manual of correspondence showing the correct structure, composition, punctuation, formalities, and uses of the various kinds of letters, notes, and cards (Sower, Potts & Co., 1880), by J. Willis Westlake (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young lady's book of classical letters. consisting of epistolary selections: designed to improve young ladies and gentlemen in the art of letter-writing (Desilver, Thomas & co., 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The universal letter-writer; or, New art of polite correspondence; containing a course of interesting original letters ... which may serve as copies for inditing letters on the various occurrences in life ... Also, A new plain and easy grammar of the English language ... (T. Wilson and Son, 1812), by Thomas Cook (page images at HathiTrust)
• The correct guide to letter writing. (F. Warne and Co., 1889), by A Member of the Aristocracy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ladies' and gentleman's model letter-writer; a complete guide to correspondence on all subjects, with household and commercial forms. (F. Warne and Co.[, 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Putnam's phrase book : an aid to social letter writing and to ready and effective conversation, with over 100 model social letters and 6000 of the world's best English phrases (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), by Edwin Hamlin Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The English secretary, or Methode of writing of epistles and letters ... Also the parts and office of a secretarie, deuided into two bookes. Now newly reuised and in many parts corrected and amended: (Printed by P[eter]. S[hort]. for C. Burbie, 1599), by Angel Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical letter writing. A text-book giving complete information regarding the construction, forms, punctuation (The practical text book company, 1897), by Henry Thomas Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuale del segretario (Sanvito, 1863) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American lady's and gentleman's modern letter writer, relative to business, duty, love, and marriage. (Henry F. Anners, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fashionable American letter writer, or, The art of polite correspondence : containing a variety of plain and elegant letters on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, &c : with forms of complimentary cards : to the whole is prefixed Directions for letter writing, and Rules for composition. (Benjamin Olds, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The enimie of idlenesse, der älteste englische briefsteller. Inaugural-dissertation, Rostock (Potsdam., 1907), by William Fullwood and Paul Wolter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die elegante welt; handbuch der vornehmen lebensart im gesellschaftlichen und schriftlichen verkehr ... (Langenscheidt, 1892), by Paul von Schönthan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Smithdeal's practical grammar, speller and letter-writer. For use in business colleges, academies, public and private schools (B.F. Johnson, 1894), by G. H. Smithdeal (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art; a choice of letters (Methuen, 1923), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American fashionable letter writer : original and selected : containing a variety of letters on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, etc. : with forms of complimentary cards : to the whole are prefixed directions for letter writing and rules for composition. (W. & H. Merriam, 1845) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The classical letter-writer: consisting of epistolary selections; designed to improve young ladies and gentlemen in the art of letter writing ... (Key & Biddle, 1833) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to effective writing (D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1931), by Peter Thomas Ward (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new universal letter writer : containing letters on duty, amusement, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, trade, religion, and other useful subjects (Lucius Q.C. Bowles, 1816), by Thomas Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The school-room guide (Bardeen & co., 1877), by E De Graff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scales for measuring special types of English composition (World book company, 1921), by Ervin Eugene Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Universal letter-writer, or, Whole art of polite correspondence : containing a great variety of plain, easy ... original letters : together with various forms of petitions : to which is added a modern collection of genteel complimentary cards ... useful forms in law ... (Mathew Carey, 1808) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fashionable American letter writer; or, The art of polite correspondence. Containing a variety of plain and elegant letters on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, &c, with forms of complimentary cards. To the whole is prefixed, directions for letter writing, and rules for composition. (Printed and sold by J. Loring, 1826), by Shubael D. Childs and James Loring (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Fashionable American letter writer, or, The art of polite correspondence : containing a variety of plain and elegant letters on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, &c. : with forms of complimentary cards : to the whole are prefixed directions for letter writing, and rules for composition. (G. and C. Merriam, 1833), by G. & C. Merriam (page images at HathiTrust)
• The young man's book of classical letters, consisting of epistolary selections; designed to improve young ladies and gentlemen in the art of letter-writing ... with introductory rules and observations on epistolary composition. (Grigg & Elliot, 1841), by Author of The young man's own book (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gossip about letters and letter-writers. (Edmonston and Douglas, 1873), by George Seton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter-writing : its ethics and etiquette : with remarks on the proper use of monograms, crests and seals (F.A. Stokes Co., 1894), by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The complete letter-writer, containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. .. (Printed by William Darling for W. Anderson ..., 1789) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesterfield's art of letter-writing simplified ... To which is appended the complete rules of etiquette and the usages of society ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Good form. Letter-writing, its ethics and etiquette, with remarks on the proper use of monograms, crests and seals. (Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1894), by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indianapolis public schools. Illustrative compositions and letters written by pupils of grades 2B to 8A, inclusive. Collected June, 1907. (Harrington & Folger, Printers, 1907), by Indianapolis (Ind.). Board of School Commissioners (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-book for home improvement, comprising: How to write. How to behave. How to talk. How to do business ... (Fowler and Wells, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hints on letter writing, for the use of academies and for self-instruction : adapted from the French of the author of "Golden sands" (Benziger brothers, 1885), by Ella McMahon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-books for home improvement : comprising, how to write, how to talk, how to behave, how to do business. (Fowler and Wells, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new universal letter-writer (J. B. Lippincott & co., 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Universal-Korrespondenz; systematisches Handbuch der Privat- und Handelskorrespondenz in acht Sprachen (Bielfeld, 1914), by Karl Weinhardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Fashionable American letter writer, or, The art of polite correspondence : containing a variety of plain and elegant letters on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, &c. ; with forms of complimentary cards ; to the whole are prefixed directions for letter writing, and rules for composition. (Published by E. & L. Merriam, 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's Compendium of forms : educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ... also, a manual of agriculture, mechanics and mining, and a guide to parliamentary practice ... (Standard Pub. Co., 1889), by G. A. Gaskell and L. T. Remlap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art de la correspondance Anglaise et Française (P., 1854), by P. Sadler and Lupin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sensible letter-writer (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1866), by Arthur Martine, Shiu-min Block, David M. Block, and Dick & Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Magyar-angol zseb-tolmács ... Hungarian-English pocket interpreter (E. Weinberger & co., 1906), by Eugene Weinberger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The youth's letter-writer, or, The epistolary art made plain and easy to beginners : through the example of Henry Moreton (H. & S. Raynor, 1836), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of letters, what letters to write for every purpose, business and social. The etiquette of correspondence (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922), by Mary Owens Crowther (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pocket letter writer : embracing practical illustrations of epistolary correspondence suited to the various situations in life, on business, love, courtship, marriage, relationship, friendship, etc., with forms of complimentary cards. (Published by S.A. Howland, 1852) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Allgemeiner deutscher Briefssteller, welcher eine kleine deutsche Sprachlehre, die Hauptregeln des Styls und eine vollständige Beispielsammlung aller Gattungen von Briefen enthält. (F. Maurer, 1793), by Karl Philipp Moritz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The enimie of idlenesse: teaching a perfect platforme how to indite epistles and letters of all sortes: as well by answere as otherwise: no lesse profitable then pleasaunt. The whole diuided into foure books (Printed by Henrie Midletonn, dwelling in Fleetstreet, at the signe of the Falcon, 1586), by William Fullwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Frost's original letter-writer : a complete collection of original letters and notes upon every imaginable subject of every-day life : with plain directions about everything connected with writing a letter ... (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1867), by S. Annie Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art : a choice of letters by entertaining hands (Methuen, 1908), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter writing : suggestions, precepts, and examples for the conduct of business and social correspondence. (The Penn publishing company, 1906), by Agnes H. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The New York fashion bazar model letter-writer and lovers' oracle. (G. Munro, 1886), by John Elderkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Female instructor (Printed by Russell and Allen, 1811), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The home manual : everybody's guide in social, domestic, and business life : a treasury of useful information for the million : embracing etiquette, hygiene, household economy, beauty, method of money-making, care of children, nursing of invalids, outdoor sports, indoor games, fancy work, home decoration, business, civil service, history, geography, physiology, writing for the press, teaching, Italian art, etc., etc. (H.J. Smith & Co., 1889), by John A. Logan, Will Carleton, Catherine Owen, and William Mathews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Welt-Sprachen-Lexikon : Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch, Lateinisch) (Hillger, 1895), by Joseph Kürschner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ameriḳanisher briefen-shṭeler un speller (Hebrew Pub. Co., 1902), by Alexander Harkavy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms, educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ; together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette, and business law and commercial forms, .. forming a complete encyclopedia of reference (Alder & Hazen, 1882), by George Arthur Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms, educational, social, legal and commercial, embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition ... and a complete guide to parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference. (Chicago Installment Book Co., 1884), by George Arthur Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maple leaf letter writer a modern treatise giving styles and forms for all kinds of letters : 129 letters on all subjects. (McLeod & Allen, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notice sur une "Summa dictaminis" jadis conservée à Beauvais. (Imprimerie nationale, 1898), by Léopold Delisle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kaigun Eibun sekitoku bunrei (Suikōsha, 1903), by Saneyuki Akiyama and active 1882 Hōsu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Social letters made easy (E. J. Clode, 1920), by Gabrielle Rosiere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Punctuation and letter-writing: containing, also, the rules for the use of capital letters... (Raub & co., 1899), by Albert N. Raub (page images at HathiTrust)
• Smithdeal's grammar, speller, letter-writer. (G.M. Smithdeal, 1895), by G. H. Smithdeal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Punctuation and letter writing. (Raub & Co., 1887), by Albert N. Raub (page images at HathiTrust)
• The household encyclopaedia of business and social forms embracing the laws of etiquette and good society ... being a practical guide to the preparation of business and legal documents ... forming a complete and comprehensive book of reference ... (National Publishing Company, 1883), by James D. McCabe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Worcester letter writer and book of business forms for ladies and gentlemen containing accurate directions for conducting epistolary correspondence. (Dick & Fitzgerald, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bukhhalṭung fir Yiden. (Hebrew Pub[lishing] Co[mpany], 1902), by Alexander Harkavy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter-writing, its ethics and etiquette, with remarks on the proper use of monograms, crests and seals. (F. A. Stokes Company, 1890), by Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A laboratory manual of letters (Ginn and Company, 1914), by Thomas Henry Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Putnam's phrase book : an aid to social letter writing and to ready and effective conversation, with over 100 model social letters and 6000 of the world's best English phrases (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922), by Edwin Hamlin Carr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hand-book of punctuation : with instructions for capitalization, letter-writing, and proof-reading (American Book Co., 1878), by W. J. Cocker (page images at HathiTrust)
• When you write a letter; some suggestions as to why, when, and how it should be done (B.H. Sanborn & co., 1921), by Thomas Arkle Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Twenty lessons in letter writing and business forms; for schools and private study. (Chicago, 1899), by O. M. Powers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plēres anglo-hellēnikon epistolarion (Typographika katastēmata "Atlantidos, ", 1910), by A. Zōniadēs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The correspondent. (D. Appleton, 1886), by James Wood Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasures of use and beauty : an epitome fo the choicest gems of wisdom, history, reference and recreation ... (F. B. Dickerson & Co., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A textbook on stenography. (International Textbook Co., 1901), by International Correspondence Schools (page images at HathiTrust)
• Putnam's phrase book; an aid to social letter writing and to ready and effective conversation, with over 100 model social letters and 6000 of the world's best English phrases (A. L. Burt, 1919), by Edwin Hamlin Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter writing : suggestions, precepts and examples for the conduct of business and social correspondence (Penn Pub. Co., 1899), by Agnes H. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of correspondence and social usages. Containing instruction and examples in all branches of letter-writing, forms of business-papers ... To which are added sections on punctuation and the use of capitals; with some pages on grammar and spelling, and a chapter on the Chinese method of reckoning time. Specially adapted to self-instruction. (Wah Cheung;, 1885), by Ki Chiu Kwong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Success in letter writing : business and social (McClurg, 1911), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust)
• Success in letter writing, business and social (A. C. McClurg & co., 1906), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letter writing : suggestions, precepts and examples for the conduct of business and social correspondence (Penn Pub. Co., 1911), by Agnes H. Morton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaskell's compendium of forms. (Cincinnati, 1884), by G. A. Gaskell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The second post : a companion to "The gentlest art" (The Macmillan Company, 1910), by E. V. Lucas and Thure de Thulstrup (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norsk-amerikansk haandbog : en fuldstaendig haandbog for farmers, kjøbmaend, haandvaerkere, arbeidere, o.a. (Skandinavens boghandel, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern letter writing : a complete course in business and social correspondence, with numerous script-form illustrations; arranged especially for use in public and private commercial schools and for home instruction. (Carnell & Hoit, 1903), by Carnell & Hoit (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parlor letter-writer and secretary's assistant : consisting of original letters on every occurrence in life ... : To which are added complimentary cards, wills, bonds, &c. (Clark & Maynard, 1863), by R. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• A text-book on penmanship : containing all the established rules and principles of the art, with rules for punctuation, directions and forms for letter writing : to which are added a brief history of writing and hints on writing materials ... (D. Appleton, 1862), by H. W. Ellsworth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parlor letter-writer and secretary's assistant: consisting of original letters on every occurrence in life ... To which are added complimentary cards, wills, bonds, &c. (Clark, Austin & Smith, 1854), by R. Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The universal letter-writer; or, Whole art of polite correspondence: containing a great variety of plain, easy, entertaining, and familiar original letters, ... Together with various forms of petitions, ... proper methods of addressing superiors and persons of all ranks ... to which is added, a modern collection of genteel complimentary cards. Likewise, useful forms in law, such as wills, bonds, &c. To which is subjoined an index ... (Printed by William E. Norman, 1811) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to letter writing (Commercial Press, 1913), by Wên-pin Li (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The complete London letter-writer; containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life. Also a variety of elegant letters for the direction and embellishment of style, on business, duty, amusement [etc.] To which are prefixed a plain and compendious grammar of the English language, directions for writing letters, and the proper forms of address. At the end are given forms of messages, cards, bills, and promissory notes. (Printed for the booksellers, 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsch-englischer briefsteller, muster zu briefen jeder art (Langenscheidt, 1910), by J. S. S. Rothwell, John Montgomery, and Philipp Wagner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Secretario universal español. (Librería de Garnier Hermanos, 1907), by Armand Dunois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Everybody's letter-writer : with a specially-written section on love courtship, and marriage (W. Foulsham, 1918), by A society lady (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The London universal letter-writer; or, Whole art of polite correspondence. Containing a great variety of plain, easy, entertaining, and familiar original letters ... Together with various forms of petitions ... To which is added, a modern collection of genteel complimentary cards. Likewise, useful forms in law, such as wills, bonds, &c. To which is subjoined an index ... (Printed by Roden and Lewis for B. Crosby & Co., 1800) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Success in letter writing, business and social (Sherwin Cody school of English, 1937), by Sherwin Cody (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The literature of letters (Lyons & Carnahan, 1925), by John B. Opdycke (page images at HathiTrust)
• American letter writing (Penn, 1926), by Ethel Shubert (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentlest art; a choice of letters (Methuen, 1910), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Najnowszy i najpraktyczniejszy listownik polsko angielski (Polish American Pub. Co., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The etiquette of letter writing (Barse & Hopkins, 1924), by Laura Thornborough (page images at HathiTrust)
• The letter writer; a manual with models for your personal correspondence (Stanford University Press, 1954), by Charles William Cooper and Edris B. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to official letter writing, orders, etc. (London : Gale & Polden, Ltd., [1915], 1915), by E. P. S. Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Putnam's phrase book : an aid to social letter writing and to ready and effective conversation, with over 100 model social letters and 6000 of the world's best English phrases (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1931), by Edwin Hamlin Carr (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le style épistolaire enseigné par la pratique. Recueil d'écritures variées et graduées offert a la jeunesse. (V. Sarlit, 1870), by Louis Desormes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new revised Hill's manual. ([Pref: Chicago, 1898), by Thomas E. Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• American letter-writer. (Henry F. Anners, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etiquette of letter writing. (Eaton, Crane & Pike company, 1927), by Crane & Pike co. Eaton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Epistolary art made plain and easy to beginners. (R. Bartlett and S. Raynor, 1834), by Mrs. John Farrar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Century standard business and social letter writer. (L.W. Walter Company, 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• When you write a letter; some suggestions as to why, when, and how it should be done. (B. H. Sanford, 1923), by Thomas Arkle Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Correspondence manual and transcribers' handbook (The Dartnell corporation, 1943), by Dartnell Corporation and Leslie Llewellyn Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Letters in Persian by Rāja Gōbind Rām Bahādur, an Indian beaurocrat, to David Anderson of the East India Company in the hopes of securing appointment]. (1772), by Rāja Gōbind Bahādur Rām and East India Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruqʻāt-i Ḥusaynī. (1800), by Amān Allāh Ḥusaynī, Muḥammad Faiḍ allā̄h, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Irashād al-qulūb (1800), by Harkaran ibn Mat'hurādās Kanbū Multānī and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ṭilismāt al-khayāl. (1800), by Nawal Kishūr Nazākat and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The gentlest art : and The second post (London : Methuen & co., [1925], 1925), by E. V. Lucas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Supreme letter writer; a guide to social and business correspondence with forms of addressing important personages (G. Sully and Company, 1928), by Cay Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter writing, business and social ; a manual on the craft of letter writing: with instructions and specimen letters. (Chicago : Winston, 1930., 1930), by Helen Cramp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Igeret] : el Shimʻon Shemuʼel Duga (Columbia University Libraries, in the 19th century), by Yitsḥaḳ Firo, Naḥum Eliyahu, and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• [Igeret] (Columbia University Libraries, 1759), by ʻAzariah Ḥayyim Sanguinetti and Hebrew Manuscripts (Columbia University Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Contemporary letter writing for every woman (Hearthside Press, 1962), by Maurine F. Russell and Billie M. Eschenburg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Universal letterwriter, in eight languages: a manual of private and commercial correspondence (J. Bielefeld, 1914), by Karl Weinhardt and Max H. Ferrars (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Improving communication through effective writing. (Washington, 1957), by United States. Bureau of Employment Security (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hand-book of punctuation : with instructions for capitalization, letter-writing, and proof-reading, by William Johnson Cocker (Gutenberg ebook)
• The New Century Standard Letter-Writer: Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc., by Alfred B. Chambers (Gutenberg ebook)
• Putnam's Phrase Book: An Aid to Social Letter Writing and to Ready and Effective Conversation, with Over 100 Model Social Letters and 6000 of the World's Best English Phrases, by Edwin Hamlin Carr (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing, by Lewis Carroll (Gutenberg ebook)
• How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters): A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence, by Mary Owens Crowther (Gutenberg ebook)
• The New academy of complements erected for ladies, gentlewomen, courtiers, gentlemen, scholars, souldiers, citizens, country-men, and all persons, of what degree soever, of both sexes : stored with variety of courtly and civil complements, eloquent letters of love and friendship : with an exact collection of the newest and choicest songs à la mode, both amorous and jovial / compiled by the most refined wits of this age. (London : Printed for Samuel Speed ..., 1669), by Charles Sackville Dorset, Charles Sedley, and William D'Avenant (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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