HILL'S MANUAL or SOCIAL & BUSINESS FORMS: A GUIDE TO CORRECT WRITING; SHOWING HOW TO EXPRESS WRITTEN THOUGHT Plainly, Rapidly, Elegantly and Correctly in Social and Business Life. EMBRACING INSTRUCTION AND EXAMPLES IN PENMANSHIP, SPelling, Use of Capital LetterS, PUNCTUATION, COMPOSITION, Writing for the Press, Proof-Reading, FAMILY RECORDS, SYNONYMS, SHORT-HAND WRITING, DUTIES OF SECRETARIES, PARLIA- BRUSH-MARKING, JOB PRINTING, POSTAL REGULATIONS, BY THOS. E. HILL. CHICAGO: MOSES WARREN & CO., 103 STATE STREET. NEW YORK AND SAN FRANCISCO: WM. H. SHEPARD. NEW ORLEANS: CHAS. H. FREEMAN. BOSTON: A. W. STOLP. 1876. GRAD/32HR COPYRIGHT, BY MOSES WARREN & CO. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, by in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, by in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Issued by subscription only and not for sale in the bookstores. Residents of any State desiring a copy should address the publisher, and an Agent wil: call upon them. NINTH EDITION. Electrotyped by Shniedewend, Lee & Co., Chicago. BUHR/GRAD Gift 03/22/2005 To THE MILLIONS WHO WOULD, AND MAY, Easily and Gracefully Express Written Thought, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED. PREFACE. O enable the writer, sitting easily and gracefully at the desk, to express thought plainly, rapidly, elegantly and correctly, is the object of this book. There have been many excellent works heretofore given to the world treating on Penmanship, that admirably served their purpose in their specialty; but the student when done with their study, though proficient in chirography, was yet ignorant of how to use the same in the transaction of business. Good books in abundance have been published on Grammar, Letter-writing, Composition, and various Business Forms, but, though proficient in a knowledge of their contents, the student, often left with a miserable Penmanship, shrinks from making use of this knowledge, because of the disagreeable labor attendant upon a cramped and detestable handwriting. of The result sought to be accomplished by this book is to give both a knowledge easy, beautiful penmanship, and its correct application in the writing of a great variety of forms which enter into the every-day business and social relations of life, thus supplying the public with a text-book on writing and written forms, alike useful to all classes of society, and meeting an urgent demand heretofore unsupplied. The Teacher of Penmanship will find its pages replete with information pertaining to the art of writing. As a treatise on Penmanship, it is more profusely illustrated than any work of the kind now before the public; and though condensed, it is yet sufficiently explicit in detail, and in the consideration of principles, to make the analysis of letters thoroughly understood by the student. The programme of exercises for a course of writing lessons, together with suggestions relating to the organization and management of the writing class, will be welcomed by young teachers, whose penmanship is sufficiently good to enable them to teach the art, but who fail of success through lack of knowledge of the course to be pursued in order to interest and entertain the class after it has assembled. The Teacher of the public or private school will find abundant use for a manual of this kind in the school - room. The subject of letter-writing-an art almost universally neglected-should be a matter of daily exercise in the recitation-room. The correct form of writing the superscription, the complimentary address, the division into paragraphs, the complimentary closing, the signature, and folding of the |