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The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness
·
Florence Hartley
101
CHAPTER
XV.
LETTER
WRITING.
There
is
no
branch
of
education
called
so
universally
into
requisition
as
the
art
of
letter
writing;
no
station,
high
or
low,
where
the
necessity
for
correspondence
is
not
felt;
no
person,
young
or
old,
who
does
not,
at
some
time,
write,
cause
to
be
written,
and
receive
letters.
From
the
President
in
his
official
capacity,
with
the
busy
pens
of
secretaries
constantly
employed
in
this
branch
of
service,
to
the
Irish
laborer
who,
unable
to
guide
a
pen,
writes,
also
by
proxy,
to
his
kinsfolks
across
the
wide
ocean;
all,
at
some
time,
feel
the
desire
to
transmit
some
message,
word
of
love,
business,
or
sometimes
enmity,
by
letter.
Yet,
in
spite
of
the
universal
need,
and
almost
universal
habit,
there
are
really
but
very
few
persons
who
write
a
good
letter;
a
letter
that
is,
at
the
same
time
long
enough
to
interest,
yet
not
long
enough
to
tire;
sufficiently
condensed
to
keep
the
attention,
and
not
tedious,
and
yet
detailed
enough
to
afford
satisfaction;
that
is
correct
in
grammatical
construction,
properly
punctuated,
written
in
a
clear,
legible
hand,
with
the
date,
address,
signature,
all
in
the
proper
place,
no
words
whose
letters
stand
in
utter
defiance
to
spelling-book
rules;
in
short,
a
well-written
letter.
Thousands,
millions
are
sent
from
post
to
post
every
day.
The
lightning
speed
of
the
telegraph
takes
its
messages
from
city
to
city;
the
panting
steamer
carries
from
continent
to
continent
its
heavy
mail-bags,
laden
with
its
weight
of
loving
messages;
the
"iron
horse"
drags
behind
it,
its
measure
of
the
many
missives;
while,
in
the
far-distant
Western
wilds,
the
lumbering
wagon
bears
its
paper
freight,
with
its
pen
eloquence,
to
cheer
and
comfort,
or
sadden
and
crush,
the
waiting
emigrants,
longing
for
news
of
home.
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