The lady's polite secretary, or new female letter writer. Containing an elegant variety of interesting and instructive letters, intended as Models to form the Style on every Point essential to the Happiness or Entertainment of the Sex. In which are comprised many admired Epistolary Narratives, an Article hitherto unattempted in every Book of the Kind. Likewise several Original Letters of Wit and Sentiment, by Ladies of the first Rank in the Literary World. To which are added, instances, to serve as beacons to the inexperienced, of that flimsy, affected Style and Sentiment, so prevalent in Modern Correspondence, the Delight of our Novelists, and the Bane of our Youth. With Variety of Poetical Letters, Humorous and Pathetic, Sentimental and Descriptive. And Cards of Compliment and Condolance, of Friendship and Resentment. In this Collection are contained Rules to be observed in writing Letters, and the different Forms of Address. To which is prefixed a short, but comprehensive, grammar o

People / Organizations

• Dorothea Du Bois (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for J. Coote, at No. 16, and T. Evans No. 54, Pater-Noster-Row, [1771]

Publication year

1771-1771

ESTC No.

T140914

Grub Street ID

188535

Description

xxiv,263,[1]p.,plate ; 12⁰

Note

Date from Alston.

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Uncontrolled note

Alston III 305. Date from Alston. GK1765? Ppxi and xxi misnumbered x and xx