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HAVING already, in the first part of this book, a chapter to epistolary correspondence, it has been deemed advisable, in addition to this, to add an entire new part which should furnish forms of and suggestions for letters of various characters, entering into details more than does the chapter referred to. For "General Directions regarding Letter-writing," the reader will turn to page 120. We will, however, furnish a few

Letters should always be in the plainest chirography of which the writer is capable. No degree of intimacy justifies us in sending hieroglyphics to our friends which they will find difficult if not next to impossible to decipher.