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"Business letter" Quotes from Famous Books

... mind he had risen hastily from the chair in which he had been musing. He opened his secretary and sitting resolutely down, began a letter to Doctor Moran. He poured out his heart and desires, and then he read what he had written. It would not do at all. It was a love letter and not a business letter. He wrote another, and then another. The first was too long, it left nothing in the inkstand; the last was not to be thought of. When he had finished reading them over, he was ...

— The Maid of Maiden Lane • Amelia E. Barr

... An up-to-date business letter is not written in a casual, commonplace way today. The writer tries to convey something he thinks the receiver will be interested to know. In this way he awakens a responsive spirit. Sometimes just the addition of a word ...

— The Power of Concentration • Theron Q. Dumont

... much like an ordinary business letter—except that whatever they used for paper was whiter and tougher than the ...

— A World by the Tale • Gordon Randall Garrett

... had long taken upon herself all similar duties. At once she sat down to pen this formidable letter. It took her some time; for there was a constant struggle between the necessary formality of a business letter, and the impulse of wounded feeling, natural to her dead father's child. The finished epistle was ...

— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

... in the autumn and winter of 1872-73. She was no longer able to venture on the effort of a long story, and yet it was manifestly unwise for her to forego the income which was extended to her through this channel. She wrote: "I have had a very urgent business letter, saying that the lyceums of different towns were making up their engagements, and that if I were going into it I must make my engagements now. It seems to me that I cannot do this. The thing will depend so much on my ...

— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields

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