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This book contains formal letters which express views/ideas/ opinions on all occasions, personal, family, close acquaintance. This book will definitely be quite useful in writing an impressive letter in every field.

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Publié par	V & S Publishers
Date de parution	09 janvier 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789350578933
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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Personal Letters

• Before Beginning to write a Letters
• Invitation Letters
• Letters of Sympathy
• Congratulation Letters
• Letters of Recommendation
• Disrepute Letters
Written by Arun Sagar ‘Anand’
Translated by Editorial Board
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Publisher’s Note

It gives us pleasure to publish this book on letter writing named Personal Letter. It had been our cherished desire to bring out a book on letter writing for readers in a systematic and scientific manner.
This book attempts to present rules for letter writing in all possible situations and circumstances. Despite the availability of e-mails, telephones, mobile phones, instant messaging, etc., it is ultimately the correspondence made through letters that matters. Letters have retained their preponderance in a milieu of communications the way books have remained strong among all readable materials – whether available in printed or digital forms.
Using words in simple and day-to-day language, this book tries to exemplify every kind of letters ordinarily people take recourse to while writing on personal subjects.
We sincerely hope the readers would make the best use of this book to master the art and science of letter writing in all situations and circumstances.
Contents 1. Letter Writing 2. Letter Writing: An Art 3. Before Beginning to Write a Letter 4. Letter Writing and its Importance 5. Invitation Letters ☀ Griha Pravesh ☀ Naming Ceremony ☀ Inauguration of a Hotel ☀ Invitation for Dinner ☀ (Accepting the Invitation) (Declining the Invitation) ☀ Invitation for Refreshment ☀ (Accepting the Invitation) (Declining the Invitation) ☀ Felicitation ☀ Invitation to a Picnic ☀ Marriage Invitation Card ☀ Invitation to Participate in a Cultural Programme 6. Letters of Sympathy ☀ A Letter of Sympathy ☀ On Losing a Football Match at School ☀ Being Unsuccessful at a Competitive Examination ☀ Letter from a Father to his Son who has Lost his Job ☀ Factory Destroyed in Fire ☀ On Losing an Election ☀ On Being Attacked ☀ Theft in the House ☀ On Losing an Election ☀ On the Death of a Close Relative 7. Congratulatory Letters ☀ Congratulatory Letter on the Publication of a Magazine ☀ Congratulating a Friend on Topping the B.A. Exams and Getting Honoured with Gold Medal ☀ Congratulating a Friend on Getting a Ph.D Degree ☀ Greeting on the Birthday of a Friend ☀ Congratulatory Letter on Winning an Election ☀ Congratulatory Letter on Being Appointed as a Lecturer ☀ Congratulations on Winning a Lottery ☀ Congratulations on the Birth of a Baby Boy/Girl 8. Regret Letters ☀ Regretting Failure to Submit an Article for the Magazine ☀ Inability to Attend a Marriage Function ☀ Seeking Excuse for Not Reaching on the Demise of Friend’s Father ☀ Seeking Excuse for Not Reaching the Kavya Sammelan ☀ Letter to Father Seeking Excuse for Falling into Bad Company 9. Letter of Recommendation ☀ Introducing ☀ Friend to a Publisher for Publishing his/her Manuscript ☀ Recommending a Known Person for a Job ☀ Recommending ☀ Suitable Person for a Job 10. Letters Expressing Obligation ☀ Letter Expressing Obligation to an Individual ☀ Obligatory Letters ☀ Social Obligatory Letter 11. Letters of Obligation, Condolence, etc. ☀ A Thank You Letter for Donating Books for the Library ☀ Thanking a Person for Returning the Lost Papers ☀ Condolence Letter to ☀ Friend on the Death of his Mother ☀ Condolence Letter to ☀ Friend on the Death of his Father ☀ A Condolence Message 12. Descriptive Letters ☀ Descriptive Letters ☀ Letter to a Younger Brother Suggesting Ways to Stay Healthy ☀ Writing a Letter to Chacha/Chachi Wanting to Spend Holidays with Them ☀ Letter from a Pre-marriage Lover to his Beloved ☀ Travel-Related Letter ☀ My Haridwar Trip ☀ Mixed Type of Letters ☀ Letter to Wife ☀ A Letter to Husband ☀ Letter from a Student to a Teacher
1
Letter Writing
Letter writing has become an important component in social life. The world appears to be interconnected by one way or another. No one has the time to meet another person as much as one would wish.
Letter writing is as old as humanity. Pigeons were used to carry messages in early times. There existed no postal facility then. Things moved on but what didn”t change course was the means of letter writing.
A person can continue to be in touch with another person, wherever he may be, by means of letters. Psychological studies reveal that:
❑ A person wants to preserve whatever he things or visualizes. He wants to share this with someone close. This he can do by means of communicating through letter writing.
❑ People who have spent years in jail reveal that but for maintaining touch with friends and relatives by letter writing, their thought processes, which is alive and kicking, would have dried up long ago.
❑ Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru”s letters to his daughter Indira Gandhi has become historical in true sense. Its relevance is for the posterity. That”s one reason why letters of great people are compiled for the benefit of the coming generations. Letters written by Lenin, Churchill, Mussolini, Napoleon, Hitler and Abraham Lincoln have made them immortal.
❑ Letter writing protects one from excitement, emotions, anger, etc. It is said that Abraham Lincoln used to start writing letters whenever angry. He would download his anger using the means of letter writing. Such letters he would always, instead of sending to the intended recipient, read and reread later to analyse what made him angry in the first place.
❑ If a person talks about his pain, ordinarily others wouldn”t pay much attention. Instead, they would act out the ‘sympathy” part. No real feelings. But when the same pain is put down in writing, others try to understand the underlying idea behind the anguish and work out ways to help out.
❑ Letters strengthen the bonds among people. Pen-friendship is a testimony to this fact. People across the world can learn about one another. This helps strengthen cultural and social ties.

Letter writing is a reflection of times. A letter written today may have words like mobile phone, computer, television, google, facebook, internet, etc. We can, similarly, know about the history or geography of one country or another. Dress habits, culture, etc. get mirrored through letters.
Mentioned below are a few points we must take into consideration while writing:
❑ Nothing should be written that may compromise the social harmony.
❑ Letters must keep one another”s interest in mind.
❑ Letters should focus primarily on human welfare and not politics.
❑ Nothing irrelevant should find space in a letter.
❑ The language used should be easy and simple.
❑ A letter should reflect honesty; not hypocrisy.
❑ A letter should be brief and to the point.
2
Letter Writing: An Art
Letter writing has a bearing on our personal and social life. They reflect the way we conduct ourselves in society. To know a person, reading a few letters written by him is enough. Letters would reveal the working and thought process of his mind at different times in different situations. The letters symbolise the psychology, emotions, sense of belongings, personal relations and social equations, a person maintains.
A person has become a combination of various pulls and pressures. This finds expression though correspondence. Without letters or other modes of communications, it is difficult to maintain equilibrium in friendship, relations, social mores, work culture, business, polity, etc. The success and failure in life also depends a great deal upon our methods of correspondence. The more successful one is in letter writing, the more successful he is likely to become in future.
The habit of letter writing starts developing right from the student life. Such letters are written to parents, teachers and friends. These reflect the bonds of emotional attachment.
As soon as one enters the adult life, the letters acquire the edge of love, feelings and attachment.
Where personal relations are concerned, letters mostly portray closeness and empathy.
If you want to become a prolific letter writer, please pay attention to the following:
❑ Letter should be logical, short, crisp and clear.
❑ The presentation should be scientific, not full of emotions. Official and managerial letters should be built around solid matters, straightforward and to the point.
❑ The letter should be developed around proper reference and context. It must be clear, else confusion may arise. Before dispatching a letter, one should read it as if the receiver is reading it. Check everything is clear and accurate. If not, make changes where necessary.
❑ Never write a letter when angry.
❑ Always take care of your goodwill.
❑ A letter should be balanced, short and precise.
3
Before Beginning to Write a Letter
Aletter is an image of the writer, his attitude, his personality. A letter is talk upon paper; but it is not as easy to write as it is to tell your story in spoken words, because when you talk, your audience is before you, and you can b