item: #1 of 8 id: 15728 author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell title: The Indiscreet Letter date: None words: 11688 flesch: 83 summary: Even the serious Traveling Salesman succumbed at last. There's no special object in reading, she said, when you can hear a bright man talk! As unappreciatingly as a duck might shake champagne from its back, the Traveling Salesman shrugged the compliment from his shoulders. keywords: electrician; eyes; face; girl; letter; salesman; think; time; traveling; voice; way; wife; young cache: 15728.txt plain text: 15728.txt item: #2 of 8 id: 18665 author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell title: Molly Make-Believe date: None words: 26507 flesch: 80 summary: With an Ouch, of pain Stanton knocked the Doctor's hands away. It was rather a thin, tantalizing little letter, too. keywords: boy; carl; co.; cornelia; course; day; doctor; eyes; face; girl; good; hand; heart; lady; letter; love; man; molly; morning; night; o'clock; paper; people; serial; stanton; things; time cache: 18665.txt plain text: 18665.txt item: #3 of 8 id: 22222 author: Crowther, Mary Owens title: How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence date: None words: 54161 flesch: 76 summary: Inside address (Always used in business letters but omitted in social and friendly letters) 3. In business letters the forms of salutation in common use are: Dear Sir, Gentlemen, Dear Madam, and Mesdames. keywords: account; address; april; avenue; bank; business; business letter; card; co.; company; congratulations; cost; course; credit; day; dear; evans; following; formal; friend; good; happiness; home; hope; invitation; john; june; kind; letter; madam; man; matter; miss; mrs; new; o'clock; order; park; person; personal; place; pleasure; sale; sir; street; thought; time; use; want; wedding; wishes; words; writing; years; york cache: 22222.txt plain text: 22222.txt item: #4 of 8 id: 31072 author: Saintsbury, George title: A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing date: None words: 92723 flesch: 68 summary: But the point is that their excellency, _as_ letters, does not depend on their enclosures (as we may call them) or even directly on their importance as biography which is certainly consummate. Indeed the method of _Redgauntlet_ is a kind of retreat to the elder and more modern--one may say the more artistic and rational--plan of _introducing_ letters, but only occasionally as auxiliaries to, and as it were illustrations of, the actual narrative, not as substitutes for, or at any rate main constituents of, it.[52] Indeed, in order to make a novel wholly composed of letters thoroughly and absorbingly attractive, either charm of style such as to make the kind of literature in which it appears, more or less indifferent; or passion which is more suitable to poetry or drama than to prose; or both, may seem unnecessary. keywords: age; art; author; book; business; case; century; character; correspondence; country; course; day; deal; dear; doubt; english; etc; fact; family; father; find; fitzgerald; form; friend; general; george; god; good; greek; half; hand; head; history; home; horace; house; interest; introduction; john; keats; kind; lady; later; letters; life; literature; london; lord; love; man; manner; matter; means; men; miss; mrs; nature; need; night; people; person; place; present; room; said; second; sense; sidenote; sir; sister; sort; style; subject; thackeray; things; thought; time; tis; walpole; want; way; wife; woman; word; work; writer; writing; years cache: 31072.txt plain text: 31072.txt item: #5 of 8 id: 36736 author: Speed, Nell title: Molly Brown of Kentucky date: None words: 55426 flesch: 88 summary: Dearest old Molly Brown of Kentucky: You can marry a million Professor Edwin Greens, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., L.D. (the last stands for lucky dog), and you can also have a million little Green Olive Branches, but you will still be Molly Brown of Kentucky to all of your old friends. New York's sky line was as fascinating to Mrs. Kent Brown as it had ever been to Judy Kean. keywords: american; aunt; baby; blue; brown; clay; course; day; edwin; eyes; france; girl; good; green; home; jim; judy; katy; kean; kent; let; letter; life; look; man; mary; men; mildred; miss; molly; mother; mrs; new; paris; philippe; poor; right; room; shop; ter; things; thought; time; tricot; war; way; work; young cache: 36736.txt plain text: 36736.txt item: #6 of 8 id: 38065 author: Carroll, Lewis title: Eight or Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing date: None words: 5059 flesch: 87 summary: It generally took me about a _week_ to read one of his letters! generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) EIGHT OR NINE WISE WORDS ABOUT Letter-Writing BY _LEWIS CARROLL_ EMBERLIN AND SON 4, MAGDALEN STREET OXFORD FIRST PUBLISHED 1890. keywords: 8vo; cloth; entry; friend; letter; net; price cache: 38065.txt plain text: 38065.txt item: #7 of 8 id: 38235 author: Anonymous title: The Gentleman's Model Letter-writer A Complete Guide to Correspondence on All Subjects, with Commercial Forms date: None words: 20963 flesch: 76 summary: MY DEAR GEORGE, I regret extremely that we are obliged to ask you to postpone your visit till next month. MY DEAR FATHER, Dearly as I love my noble profession, I am unable to resist your last earnest appeal, and agree therefore to give up my commission, and return to a life on land. keywords: 1st; application; appointment; business; dear; father; form; friend; gentleman; good; house; invitation; letter; london; love; place; present; relative; reply; sir; time; wife; years cache: 38235.txt plain text: 38235.txt item: #8 of 8 id: 48552 author: Taggart, Marion Ames title: The Blissylvania Post-Office date: None words: 28283 flesch: 87 summary: Some sure instinct always led little Margery to divine the right and kindest thing to do. Let's kneel right down and thank God, pious little Margery suggested at last, and as there was no one there to see, the big man and the little maiden knelt down on the grass under the pines with their Gothic arches, and said a most sincere prayer of thanksgiving. keywords: amy; children; day; dean; face; good; happy; isabel; jack; lady; look; man; margery; miss; miss isabel; office; post; sir; thought; time; trix cache: 48552.txt plain text: 48552.txt