Excerpt from 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 Are Prefixed an Essay on Letter-Writing, and a Set of Complimental Cards Although it may not be in his power to offer a complete scrim of rules for epistolary correspondence, the writer of this article ventures to hope, that he may be enabled, in the course of the following pages, to make some observations which will be found of considerable benefit; at least to the younger and more inexperienced portion of his readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.