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Show AET OF LETTER VTSTimQ. When we come to personal letters, the most Intimate and Important of all, It I may frankly be acknowledged that the oomplet letter writer stops at th threshold. To put - ourselves our best selves on paper, is the problem, and there is no greater on in th whole range of human Intercourse. Yet if w fall, if we put a foolish or mistaken self on the page, the letter had better never leave the desk. Hence comes the first law of personal letter writing do not try oo much. Do not try; to be as spontaneous as in conversation. Do not try t be as frank as whan face to face with another. Consider the limits of paper and ink. Suggest, rather than explain, your feelings and ideas. Make the letter short rather than long. It is really hard to fall on a four-page letter; but if one does a two-p'ag letter is the next resource. If these two pages can be carefully written in good English; if they contain nothing that offends then that letter is not a failure, though it may not be a brilliant success. The thing to be avoided Is the rambling letter, let-ter, the Indiscreet letter, the gushing letter, the Insipid letter. Harper's Bazar. |