HILL'S MANUAL.

HILL'S MANUAL

OF

SOCIAL AND BUSINESS FORMS:

A

GUIDE TO CORRECT WRITING

Showing How to Express Written Thought Plainly, Rapidly, Elegantly and Correctly.

EMBRACING INSTRUCTION AND EXAMPLES IN

PENMANSHIP, Spelling, Use of Capital Letters, PUNCTUATION, COMPOSITION, WRITING FOR THE PRESS, PROOF-READING, EPISTOLARY COrrespondence, NOTES OF INVITATION, CARDS, COMMERCIAL FORMS, LEGAL BUSINESS FORMS,

FAMILY RECORDS, SYNONYMS, SHORT-HAND WRITING, DUTIES OF SECRETARIES, PARLIA

MENTARY Rules, Sign-WritiNG, EPITAPHS, THE LAWS OF ETIQUETTE,
BOOK-KEEPING, VALUABLE TABLES OF REference,
WRITING POETRY, ETC., ETC.

BY THOS. E. HILL,

AUTHOR OF "HILL'S ALBUM OF BIOGRAPHY AND ART," "MORALS AND MANNERS, ILLUSTRATED."

CHICAGO:

HILL STANDARD BOOK CO., PUBLISHERS.

1885.

THE ORIGINAL 1885 TITLE PAGE

THE 1885 EDITION OF

HILL'S

MA

NUAL

Of Social

and Business Forms

THE HOW-TO-DO-EVERYTHING BOOK

OF VICTORIAN AMERICA

COPYRIGHT,

1884,

BY THOS. E. HILL.

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In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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AG 105 H6 1911

Το

THE MILLIONS

WHO WOULD, AND MAY,

Easily and Gracefully Express the Right Thought,

THIS WORK IS

RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.