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BL
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1027330
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b781700
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| Main Entry
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O'Shea, Samara.
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| Title & Author
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For the love of letters : : a 21st-century guide to the art of letter writing /\ Samara O'Shea.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Collins,, ©2007.
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xix, 172 pages :: illustrations ;; 21 cm
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| ISBN
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0061215309
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: 9780061215308
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-171).
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| Contents
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Introduction part one : Yes, there's still a need for letters -- Introduction part two : Letter writing and the internet -- Letters as gifts : Love letters ; The love letter ; Great expectations ; Crush confessions ; Remember mom ; How to confess your undying love while your dying / by John Keats ; Erotic letters ; The erotic letter ; Describing "down there" ; Position of power ; Open book ; How to undress your lover with your words / by James Joyce -- Letter therapy : Good-bye letters ; The good-bye letter ; Closure : A melodramatic analogy ; A tale of two letters ; how to say good-bye before going to the guillotine / by Marie Antoinette ; Flaming-tongue letters ; The flaming-tongue letter ; Angry letters aloud ; How to tell your father you're leaving his house and never coming back / by Edgar Allen Poe -- Return to sender : Letters that are hard to write and harder to receive ; Breakup letters ; The breakup letter ; how to break up with someone very carefully ; Watch the white lies ; how to break up with someone you really like ; how to tell a man you no longer love him / by Sarah Bernhardt ; Unauthorized love letters ; The unauthorized love letter ; One-shot deal ; Reread and reconcile ; Man-to-man ; how to write your immortal beloved / by Ludwig van Beethoven -- Letters of gratitude : Thank-you letters ; The thank-you letter ; Thank you for the thank-you ; Split-second letters ; how to express your utmost gratitude in ways you never thought of / by Emily Post -- Difficult to say, even in a letter : Apology letters ; The apology letters ; how to apologize to a girl for getting her name wrong in an apology letter ; how to apologize for missing a lunch date ; Never too late ; How to apologize to your husband for being short with him as the housework continues to mount / by Katherine Mansfield ; Sympathy letters ; The sympathy letter ; Religious context ; how to express genuine regrets to a woman who lost five sons during the Civil War / by Abraham Lincoln -- Letters of change : Letters requesting acts of amnesty The letter requesting an act of amnesty ; Letter-writing guide for Amnesty International USA and the Urgent Action Network ; How to write the Women's Right's Revolution / by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony ; The letter that changed it all ; Letters to the editor ; The letter to the editor ; Missing the mark ; how to tell Americans what it's like to live in the middle of World War II / by the editor's of French and British Vogue -- If we must, we must : Business letters ; The cover letter ; The resignation letter ; Professional thank-you notes ; How to approach a problem in a businesslike manner ; how to secure a business deal that will educate the masses / by Andrew Carnegie ; Recommendation letters ; The recommendation letter ; how to politely refuse to write a recommendation ; how to write a recommendation for your offspring ; How to write recommendation letters according to Collier's Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information (1892) -- P.S. Final thoughts.
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| Abstract
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Presents a guide to letter writing that provides for a wide range of needs, offering step-by-step instructions and including sample letters by such figures as Anaïs Nin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Sarah Bernhardt.
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English language-- Rhetoric.
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Letter writing.
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English language-- Rhetoric.
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English language-- Rhetoric.
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Letter writing.
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Letter writing.
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| Dewey Classification
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808.6
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| LC Classification
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PE1483.O83 2007
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| NLM classification
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H315clc
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