FORMAL NOTES When a note of invitation is very formal, it is usually engraved, and arranged in lines; thus: Mr. and Mrs. Donald Lynn request the pleasure of company at dinner February eleventh, at seven o'clock, Notes of invitation sent out by clubs and societies contain no names. They are accompanied by the personal cards of the members. Study the following forms: The honor of your presence is requested at the Annual Banquet of the Lakeside Golf Club on Thursday evening, October twentieth, Replies to such invitations as the above may be arranged in the manner of the invitations themselves, or they may be treated as the usual formal note. Study the following: Mrs. E. Harmon requests the presence of Miss Grace Howell's company at a social gathering on Thursday evening, March twenty-second, at eight o'clock. 5 Grant Place. ACCEPTANCE Miss Howell accepts with pleasure Mrs. Harmon's kind invitation for next Thursday evening. 142 High Street, March seventeenth. REGRET Miss Howell regrets that on account of a previous engagement she is unable to accept Mrs. Harmon's kind invitation for next Thursday evening. 142 High Street, March seventeenth. INFORMAL NOTE AND REPLY Dear Mrs. Fielding, Will you and Mr. Fielding give us the pleasure of your company at dinner, Tuesday evening, the tenth, at seven o'clock? We expect Dorothy home for her vacation, and she will be one of our company. Cordially yours, MARY L. STEWART. 75 Union Avenue, June fifth. Dear Mrs. Stewart, Mr. Fielding and I are heartily pleased to accept your kind invitation for dinner on Tuesday evening, the tenth, at seven o'clock. We are delighted to learn that we are to meet Dorothy so soon, and we assure you that we are looking forward to a most enjoyable evening. Very sincerely yours, 7 Crescent Avenue, June seventh. JENNIE M. FIELDING. EXERCISES IN LETTER WRITING Make each letter written in accordance with the following instructions a model of neatness and accuracy: 1. Write a letter ordering some newspaper or magazine to be sent to you for one year. Enclose a money order for subscription price. 2. Imagine that you have just finished the grammar grades, and write some person competent to advise you, asking what studies you should pursue in the high school. 3. Friends who live some distance from you, have invited you to spend the Christmas vacation with them. Write, accepting the invitation, and state the time when you will arrive at their nearest railroad station. 4. Write to the publishers of this book, ordering forty copies of Howland's Elementary Lessons in English, to be sent by express, C. O. D. State that the pupils are awaiting the books, and request prompt attention to your order. 5. Miss Grace Mansfield requests the pleasure of your company at dinner on Tuesday evening, May twenty-second, at seven o'clock. Write your acceptance of this invitation. 6. Write some friends whom you may imagine to be abroad and whose address at present is Hotel Cecil, London, England. Try to make your letter one of unusual interest. 7. Presume that DeWolf & Fiske Company, 361-365 Washington St., Boston, Mass., has advertised in the "Times" for a clerk. Write an application for the place. (1.) State that you apply for the position advertised by the company in the "Times," giving date. (2.) Give your age, height, weight, and educational qualifications. It might be well to add here some assurance of faithfulness to duty. (3.) Say that you enclose a recommendation from your former employer, and that for further evidence of your qualifications to fill such a position, you refer to your teacher, giving his or her name and address. 8. Write the Manhattan Press, 476 West Broadway, New York, N. Y., to obtain information as to the different editions of "Black Beauty" on the market, EXTRACT FOR STUDY The following lines from "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" offer excellent opportunity for the application of grammatical principles: Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Unwept, unhonored, and unsung. -Sir Walter Scott. What kind of sentence do the first three lines make? Name the kind of clause found in the third line. Parse own in this line. What kind of clause does whose in the fourth line introduce? Parse the words, home, wandering, proud, despite, living, whence. Give the meaning of pelf, forfeit, and whence. Why is from used before whence? Give the reason for the omission of letters in certain words. Write the above lines from memory, giving careful attention to punctuation. |