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1. writing to your ſuperiors, let your Letter be as ſhort as the ſubject will admit, particularly wherein favours are requeſted. Make uſe of no Contractions as can't, won't, &c. as they appear both diſreſpectful and too familiar.

2. Avoid Poſtscripts, as it ſhews diſreſpect in neglecting ſuch perſons in the body of your Letter.

3. Avoid blots and interlineations, the latter eſpecially in Letters to ſuperiors and all ungrammatical expreſſion.

4. Begin every freſh or new paragraph with a Capital and at the ſame diſtance from the left hand margin of the paper, as when you begin the ſubject of your letter.

5. Conclude your Letter with the ſame addreſs as you began, as, ''Madam. Sir'', &c.

6 Never fold up your Letter without carefully reading it over firſt.

7. Be as neat as poſſible in folding it up; Letters muſt always be in the uſual form; Notes may be in a triangular or diamond manner.

8. Letters ſhould be written on quarto; Notes which ſhould be as brief as poſſible) in octavo, longways.

9. Never omit affixing the date of the month nd the year to, Letters, and the day of the week and the hour if you pleaſe) to Notes.

Lastly, Let your hand-writing be perfectly legible, neatly written, and the lines very even.—bad ſpelling and bad writing are equally unpleaſant and diſgraceful.