How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters), page 49 by Mary Owens Crowther
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ning and leave on the following Monday morning. It is thoughtful for the hostess to give an idea of the activities or sports planned. The letter might be somewhat in the following manner:
(A)
Glory View, August 1, 1922.
Dear Miss Evans,
Will you be one of our guests at a house-party we are planning? We shall be glad if you can arrange to come out to Glory View on August eighth and stay until the seventeenth. I have asked several of your friends, among them Mary Elliott and her brother.
The swimming is wonderful and there is a new float at the Yacht Club. Be sure to bring your tennis racquet and also hiking togs.
I enclose a timetable with the best trains marked. If you take the 4:29 on Thursday you can be here in time for dinner. Let me know what train you expect to get and I will have Jones meet you.
Most cordially yours, Myra T. Maxwell.
Accepting
500 Park Avenue, August 3, 1922.
Dear Mrs. Maxwell,
Let me thank you and Mr. Maxwell for the invitation to your house-party. I shall be very glad to come.
The 4:29 train which you suggest is the most convenient. I am looking forward to seeing you again.
Very sincerely yours, Ruth Evans.
(B)
Hawthorne Hill, January 10, 1920.
My dear Anne,
We are asking some of Dorothy's friends for this week-end and we should be glad to have you join us. Some of them you already know, and I am sure you will enjoy meeting the others as they are all congenial.
Mr. Maxwell has just bought a new flexible flyer and we expect some fine coasting. Be sure to bring your skates. Goldfish Pond is like glass.
The best afternoon train on Friday is the 3:12, and the best Saturday morning train is the 9:30.
I hope you can come.
Very sincerely yours, Myra T. Maxw