Just a Note to Say...
Just a Note to Say... The Perfect Words for Every Occasion
By Florence Isaacs
Published by Clarkson Potter Publishers, 1996
This is a small book, 5" by 7", attractively printed and bound for bookstore sales. It's 159 pages long.
The book is a guide to how to write notes to people for different types of occasions where the well-bred person knows that he or she should write a note, but isn't quite sure what to say. Among the occasions covered are things like birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, rites of passage, illness, death and loss, holidays, and thank-you notes. The book includes advice about how to approach the process of writing a note, that is, now to think about what to say, as well as important tips about writing for various types of occasions that may involve some special background knowledge.
This book may seem to some to be kind of superfluous - who doesn't know how to write a note? And isn't it essentially an etiquette book, and aren't those irritating? And anyway, an honest note writer should say what they think and not rely on a reference book. But the book answers a real need. I made use of it when I had a reference question from a genuinely perplexed and troubled person who wanted to write a note to a friend or a relative who had been diagnosed with cancer and didn't know what to say. This book turned out to have three pages of advice about how to write a note for exactly that purpose. So I was glad that we had the book on our shelves.
This is a handy how-to book for real-life situations.
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
referencebooks) wrote,
