How to Write a Letter (or Email) Like a Gentleman—According to a Handbook on Manners From the 1880sSome will surely find the art of writing letters indispensable in the task of drafting emails so necessity in modern life. They may find this excerpt “CHAPTER XXII The Letter Writer” from “Our Deportment,” by John H. Young, published in 1881, thus invaluable, particularly if they aspire toward gentlemanly conduct, aiming to refine their manners in electronic correspondences so often neglected in these unbalanced times.
A French writer says, that the writing a note or letter, the wording of a regret, the prompt or the delayed answering of an invitation, the manner of a salutation, the neglect of a required attention, all betray to the well-bred the degree or the absence of good-breeding....
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