Practical Grammar and Composition Part 48

Sincerely yours, Walter Powell.

Napoleon, Ohio, February 28, 1908.

The American Stove Company, Alverton, Pennsylvania.

Gentlemen:

With this letter I enclose a check for ten dollars, for which please send me one of your small cook stoves, of the sort listed in your catalogue on page two hundred thirty-eight.

It will be a great favor if you will hasten the s.h.i.+pment of this stove as much as possible, since it is urgently needed in a summer cottage that I have for rent.

Very truly yours, Ernest Burrows.

223 Siegel Street, New York City, June 5, 1910.

The Acme Tapestry Company, Syracuse, New York.

Dear Sirs:

Will you please send me a price list and descriptive catalogue of your tapestries and carpets?

I have been commissioned to purchase all the tapestries and carpets that may be needed for the new Young Women's Christian a.s.sociation Building, on Arlington Avenue, this city. I understand that inst.i.tutions of this sort are allowed a ten per cent discount by you. Will you please tell me if this is true?

Very truly yours, Anna R. Fleegor.

(Mrs. C. C. Fleegor.)

Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, May 10, 1910.

The Merchant's Electric Wiring Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Gentlemen:

I am writing to ask if you can give me employment in your work for about ten weeks beginning June 15th. I am at present taking a course in electrical engineering at Bucknell University, and am in my soph.o.m.ore year., It is my plan to gain some practical experience in various sorts of electrical work during the vacations occurring in my course. This summer I want to secure practical experience in electric wiring.

If you wish references as to my character and ability, I would refer you to Mr. William R. Stevenson, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and to Mr. Harry E. McCormick, Superintendent of the Street Railways Company, Danville, Illinois.

Salary is a very slight object to me in this work, and I shall be willing to accept whatever compensation you may see fit to offer me.

Respectfully yours, Harvey H. Wilkins.

Drawsburg, Ohio, May 21, 1910.

My dear Norman:

I have just heard of your good fortune and hasten to a.s.sure you of my sincere pleasure in the news. May you find happiness and prosperity in your new location. But do not forget that your old friends are still living and will always be interested in your welfare.

Your affectionate cousin, Mary E. Johnston.

223 Holbrook Avenue, Wilkinsburg, Indiana.

November 10, 1908.

The Jefferson Life Insurance Company, Norfolk, Virginia.

Gentlemen:

I am the holder of Policy Number 2919 in your company. In that Policy, which was taken out about ten years ago, my occupation is stated to be carpenter. Lately I have changed occupations, and am now engaged in conducting a store. If, in order to maintain the validity of my policy, the change of occupation should be recorded on your books, will you please have the proper entry made.

I should like to know if at the present time my policy has any cash surrender value, and if so, what that value is.

Very truly yours, Arthur J. Pea.r.s.e.

Bunnell Building, Scranton, Pennsylvania, April 20, 1909.

Mr. James R. Elliot, Germantown, Colorado.

My dear Elliot:

Will you please send me, as soon as you conveniently can, the addresses of George English, Ira S. Shepherd, and G. N. Wilkinson.

This request for addresses may lead you to think that wedding invitations are to be looked for. Your conclusion, I am happy to say, is a correct one; I expect to be married sometime in June.

Cordially your friend, Charles R. Harris.

The Anglo-American Hotel, Vienna, Austria, March 19, 1907.

Dear Aunt Emily:

You will no doubt be surprised when you read the heading of this letter and learn that we are now in Vienna. We had really intended, as I wrote to you, to spend the entire months of March and April in Berlin, but a sudden whim sent us on to this city.

Until we came to Vienna I had but a very vague idea of the city, and thought it a place of little interest. I was surprised to find it a place of so many beautiful buildings and beautiful streets.

Still more was I surprised to find what a festive, stylish place it is. Paris may have the reputation for fas.h.i.+on and frivolity, but Vienna lacks only the reputation; it certainly does not lack the fas.h.i.+onable and frivolous air.

The other day in one of the shops here, I discovered, as I thought, a very fine miniature. I purchased it to present to you, and have already sent it by post. It ought to reach you as soon as this letter.

We have not received the usual letter from you this week, but suppose it is because we so suddenly changed our address. The necessity of forwarding it from Berlin has probably caused the delay.

Father and Mother join in sending their love to you.

Your affectionate niece, Mary.

NOTES IN THE THIRD PERSON

175. It is customary and desirable to write certain kinds of notes in the third person. Such a note contains nothing but the body of the note, followed at the left side of the paper, by the time and the place of writing.

Use no p.r.o.noun but that of the third person. Never use any heading, salutation, or signature. Use no abbreviations except _Mr., Mrs._, or _Dr._ Spell out all dates.

176. CORRECTLY WRITTEN NOTES IN THE THIRD PERSON.

Mrs. Harry Moore requests the pleasure of Mr. Leighou's company at dinner on Sunday, June the first, at two o'clock.

1020 Highland Street, Was.h.i.+ngton, Pennsylvania, May the twenty-fifth.

The Senior Cla.s.s of Bucknell University requests the pleasure of Professor and Mrs. Morton's company on Tuesday evening, June the tenth, at a reception in honor of Governor Edwin S. Stuart.

Bucknell University, June the fifth.