How to Write Letters: (Formerly The Book of Letters)

The heyday of letter writing was in the eighteenth century in England. George Saintsbury, in his interesting "A Letter Book," says: "By common consent of all opinion worth attention that century was, in the two European literatures which were equally free from crudity and decadence-French and English-the very palmiest day of the art. Everybody wrote letters, and a surprising number of people wrote letters well. Our own three most famous epistolers of the male sex, Horace Walpole, Gray, and ...