The complete letter-writer; or, Polite English secretary. Containing familiar letters on the most important occasions in life. Also a very great variety of elegant letters for specimens of fine writing and improvement of style, collected from the most approved authors, with many originals interspersed, on the most common occurrences. Amongst many others, are letters on trade and commerce, the relative and other duties, courtship & marriage, religion and moral instruction, conjugal affection, mortality & eternity; also several descriptive, humorous, entertaining, and instructive epistles, on almost every subject. The whole comprehending a system of morality, and a display of the social and other interesting duties, with proper rules of conduct in our several stations in life. To which is subjoined, an essay on the proper mode of education; with occasional reflections and remarks, tending to improve the present prevailing systems and plans of academical and boarding-school instruction. With

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  • The complete letter-writer; or, Polite English secretary. Containing familiar letters on the most important occasions in life. Also a very great variety of elegant letters for specimens of fine writing and improvement of style, collected from the most approved authors, with many originals interspersed, on the most common occurrences. Amongst many others, are letters on trade and commerce, the relative and other duties, courtship & marriage, religion and moral instruction, conjugal affection, mortality & eternity; also several descriptive, humorous, entertaining, and instructive epistles, on almost every subject. The whole comprehending a system of morality, and a display of the social and other interesting duties, with proper rules of conduct in our several stations in life. To which is subjoined, an essay on the proper mode of education; with occasional reflections and remarks, tending to improve the present prevailing systems and plans of academical and boarding-school instruction. With
  • Polite English secretary
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Imprint
London : printed for S. Crowder, Pater-Noster-Row, and B.C. Collins, Salisbury, 1789.
Added name
Crowder, Stanley, -1798, bookseller.
Publication year
1789
ESTC No.
T13269
Grub Street ID
181587
Description
xii, 276 p. ; 12°.
Note
Parts V-IX

Published as a supplement to 'The complete letter-writer' first published in 1755; the Preface refers to the seventeenth edition as the most recent

Signatures: A]6] B-M]1]2] N]6.