1945 printing. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Library of December, 1944 and January, 1945. A handbook on letter-writing that excludes examples of historical, literary, and specialized (such as business) correspondence in favor of a general letter-writer for the "average" person. Introduction covers the history of the letter-writer handbook, dating back 1568. It credits much of its history to Katherine Gee Hornbeak's The Complete Letter Writing in English, 1568 – 1800. The text features examples of letters on general and specific topics (ex: A Father to his Daughter, Refusing his Consent to an Early Marriage). It also includes a bibliography called Preliminary Check List of American Letter-Writers, 1698-1943. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 54 page text.
Excerpt includes preface and appendix, featuring "farther remarks on the nature of the future expressions in the English language, and on the changes made in the conjugation of verbs in the preceding work."
1886 printing of 1886 copyrighted text. Author is credited with a Master of Arts and as Late Supervisor in the Boston Schools. An elementary grammar that assumes students have already received some instruction in composition in primary and grammar school. Includes study of parts of speech as well as arrangement, construction, inflection, and its substitutes. The illustration of principles precedes their technical naming; technical names not related to grammatical distinctions are excluded. The appendix covers idiomatic expressions and their history as well as difficult and doubtful constructions. Part one covers the sentence and some parts of speech; part two covers more parts of speech, moods, and tenses; part three covers syntax and punctuation; part four covers irregular parts of speech and more complex arrangements as well as methods of analysis. The Schultz Archive copy is roughly the complete 113 page text.