if a way exists for getting what you mean wrong that way will be found. It is unfortunately safe to take for granted that a personal business letter is going to be read by a moron. Ordering goods from a department store L. Burton & Company, Fifth Ave. & 39th St., New York Gentlemen: 500 Park Avenue, April 3, 1922. Please send me as soon as possible and charge to my account the following goods: 1 doz. hemstitched huck towels, large size, from $12.00 to $15.00 a dozen 2 pairs infants' laced shoes, sizes 4 D and 4D. One pair to be returned as I am not certain of the correct size. 3 pairs children's rompers, size 2 years, band knee, 1 all white, 1 white with blue collar, 1 white with pink collar. May I call your attention to my account rendered on April 1st? There would seem to be two errors, as follows: Under date of March 18th I am charged with four pairs of silk stockings at $3.50 a pair, although I purchased only three pairs. On March 22nd I am credited with one pair of children's shoes at $5.00. I had two pairs sent on approval, but returned both of them as neither pair fitted. I enclose my check in the sum of $148.96 which is the total less the overcharge. To assist in the adjustment I also enclose the original slip for the stockings and the driver's call receipt for the two pairs of shoes.1 I have recently come to live in Chicago and I should like to open a charge account with you. My present accounts are all in New York and I can give you the following references: Lord & Taylor Tiffany & Co. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. J. & J. Slater Lincoln Trust Co. Very truly yours, Alberta T. White. (Mrs. James White) 1Or instead of enclosing these slips it is often better to mention the numbers that appear on them and to retain the slips themselves. Asking for estimate for draperies and furnishings Forsythe & White, 438 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: 500 Park Avenue, May 16, 1922. Will you send me an approximate estimate of the cost of materials and labor necessary for the doing of the following work: Slip covers with valances of English hand-blocked linen for two large wing chairs and one chaise-longue. Two reversible portières of the linen for doorways 11 feet high and 8 feet wide. Three pairs curtains for casement windows 6 feet high and 5 feet wide, with pleated valance. These curtains to be of habutai silk. Of course I shall understand that this is purely an approximate estimate. it. I should like to have this as soon as you can conveniently send Thank you for your letter of 19th May in answer to mine of the 16th, requesting an estimate for slip covers and curtains. Your estimate calls for more outlay than I should care to make at the present time, so I shall have to postpone the matter until next year. Very truly yours, Katherine G. Evans. (Mrs. John Evans) Recommendation for a servant June 14, 1922. This is to certify that Katrina Hellman has been in my employ as assistant nurse for one year. During that period I have found her honest, capable, and reliable. I can give her an unqualified recommendation. I hope you will pardon me, but I should be very much indebted to you for any facts concerning Gaston Duval, who has been in your employ as chauffeur. If you will give me this information I shall treat it as confidential. Yours very truly, Cecelia B. Duke, (Mrs. Samuel Duke) I have your inquiry of May the ninth concerning my former chauffeur, Gaston Duval. I am very glad to recommend him. He is sober and honest, and I always found him thoroughly dependable during his fifteen months in my employ. He drives well and is an expert mechanician. Yours very truly, K. G. Evans, 500 Park Avenue, New York, N. Y., Mrs. Samuel Duke, 5300 Deming Place, Dear Madam: I have your inquiry of May the ninth concerning my former chauffeur, Gaston Duval. I hope that you will not think me discourteous but I should much prefer not to discuss him. Yours very truly, K. G. Evans. |