CONTENTS

• About the Author...
• The Language of Flowers.
• Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases.
• Domestic Architecture.
• Letter Writing (or in Victorian, “Epistolary Correspondence”)
  • Introduction.
  • Business Letters.
  • Telegraphic Messages.
  • Letters of Credit.
  • Letters of Application.
  • Letters of Recommendation.
  • Letters of Introduction.
  • Letters of Apology.
  • Advisory Letters.
  • Letters of Condolence.
  • Letters of Favor.
  • Notes Accompanying Gifts.
  • Congratulatory Letters.
  • Domestic Letters.
  • From a Mother to a Daughter at School.
    Are you resolved to embark in the fashionable follies of a gay, unthinking world?
  • Answer to the Foregoing.
    That levity, so conspicuous in my former letters, is too true to be denied...
  • An Absent Husband to His Wife.
    I had a good mind not to write to you by this opportunity; but I never can be ill-natured enough...
  • From a Young Lady to Her Mother, Absent from Home.
    Each day I feel more and more the need of your teaching, particularly in directing the servants...
  • From a Lady in the Country to a Young Friend in the City.
    There is one drawback, however: he has a temper of his own and is rather small in stature...
  • From a Young Lady at School to Her Mother.
    I find school much less disagreeable than I had expected...
  • Answer to the Foregoing.
    Write to me from time to time, and let me know all the news of your “little world;”...
  • From a Little Girl Waiting to Come Home.
    I feel as if I should die of grief if you do not let me come home again...
  • Answer to the Foregoing.
    Youth, my dear little girl, is the proper time for exertion...
  • Announcing the Vacation.
    No pains have been spared by any of my teachers to render me worthy of your good opinion...
  • From a Daughter Acknowledging a Present.
    Nothing but an occasional thought of poor, widowed papa, ever intrudes upon my cheerfulness...
  • To a Daughter on her Birthday.
    Our selfish delights must not be suffered to interfere with the prospects of those dear to us...
  • From a Husband, Absent on Business, to his Wife.
    You share my trial, but do not be down hearted, the time will soon pass away.
  • Letter to a Lady, on Hearing Accidentally that She is Married.
    I felt as first inclined to be a little cross, at your having kept us in such total ignorance...
  • Young Lady to Her Mother, Informing Her of a Proposal.
    I should be content, myself, to share his moderate means and struggle to get on with him...
  • Letters of Love and Courtship.
    • Declaration from a Widower.
      I feel more and more the want of some kindred spirit...
    • The Answer.
      But our acquaintance is at present imperfect, and we are comparatively strangers to each other’s tastes...
    • An Unfavorable Reply.
      I esteem you, but there I must pause. My heart is untouched.
    • From a Gentleman to a Lady, Making a Declaration.
      For some time past...my feelings toward you have been stronger than those of mere friendship.
    • A Favorable Reply.
      How can I thank you for the honor you have done me...?
    • Reply, Stating the Lady’s Engagement to Another.
      It would be dishonorable in me to keep you in any suspense...
    • Unfavorable Reply, on the Ground of Poverty.
      No, my dear Charles, we must wait for better times...
    • From a Gentleman to a Lady who had Rejected his Suit.
      Your rejection of my passion has filled me with indescribable misery...
    • From an Ardent Lover to a Lady.
      Do you blame me because I write so freely?
    • A Favorable Reply.
      You may think less of me for the frank avowal...
    • From a Lover to a Father on his Attachment to the Daughter.
      I flatter myself my family and expectancies will be found not altogether unworthy of your notice.
    • A Favorable Answer.
      I have long since perceived that your attentions to her were of a marked character...
    • Unfavorable Answer.
      I request I may hear no more of your passion for the present...
    • A Lover’s Letter.
      I cherish every line that bears the evidence of my dear girl’s affection...
  • Notes of Ceremony and Compliment.
  • Wedding Anniversaries.
  • Notes of Invitation.
  • Acceptances and Regrets.
• Social Etiquette.
• Morning and Evening Calls.
• Introductions, When Proper and How.
• Etiquette of the Card Table.
• New Year's Calls.
• Street Etiquette.
• Etiquette of Riding and Driving.
• Etiquette of Dinner Parties.
• The Breakfast.
• The Luncheon.
• Etiquette of the Party and Ball.
• Evening Parties.
• Etiquette of Public Places.
• Etiquette of Visiting.
• Wedding Etiquette.
• Etiquette of Traveling.
• Funeral Etiquette.
• The Etiquette for Baptism.
• Etiquette at the National Capital.
• Etiquette with Children.
• Miscellaneous Laws of Etiquette.
• Maxims of George Washington.
• How to Travel in Europe.
• Baths and Watering Places on the Continent.
• Political Dictionary.

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