Letter Writing, Vol. 25, Issue 37

What is a letter? Just before Emily Post became the grandmother of American etiquette*, a writer named Lillian Eichler published The Book of Etiquette in 1921, but without a byline. She has been unjustly overlooked ever since. And she answers this question by getting right to the point. “A letter, business or social, is simply talk upon paper.” Read that again. “Talk upon paper.” It’s that simple.…