EXERCISES
1. Write a letter to a classmate who has moved to another town, telling
him of the school of which he was once a member.
2. Write to a friend, describing your visit to the World's Fair at St.
Louis.
3. Suppose yourself away from home. Write a letter to your little brother
or sister at home.
4. If you have ever been abroad, describe in a letter some place of
interest that you have visited.
5. Write to a friend who is fond of camping, about your camping
experience.
6. Suppose your mother is away from home on a visit. Write her about the
home life.
7. Write to a friend, describing a party that you recently attended.
8. Suppose you have moved from one town to another. In a letter compare
the two towns.
+103. Adaptation to the Reader.+--The golden rule of letter writing is,
Adapt the letter to the reader. Although the letter is an expression of
yourself, yet it should be that kind of expression which shall most
interest and please your correspondent. In business letters the necessity
of brevity and clearness forces attention to the selection and arrangement
of details. In letters to members of the family or to intimate friends
we must include many very minor things, because we know that our
correspondent will be interested in them, but a rambling, disjointed
jumble of poorly selected and ill-arranged details becomes tedious. What
we should mention is determined by the interests of the readers, and the
successful letter writer will endeavor to know what they wish to have
mentioned.
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