I really think it was adorable of you to have a chair like yours made for me.  It was worth adding a year to my age for such a nice birthday present.  Jack says I am never going to have a chance to sit in it, however, if he gets there first, and even the children look at it with longing.  At all events, I am perfectly enchanted with it, and thank you ever and ever so much.

Affectionately,
Sally.

Dear Uncle Arthur: 

I know I oughtn’t to have opened it until Christmas, but I couldn’t resist the look of the package, and then putting it on at once!  So I am all dressed up in your beautiful chain.  It is one of the loveliest things I have ever seen and I certainly am lucky to have it given to me I Thank you a thousand—­and then more—­times for it.

Rosalie.

Dear Kate: 

I am fascinated with my utility box—­it is too beguiling for words!  You are the cleverest one anyway for finding what no one else can—­and every one wants.  I don’t know how you do it!  And you certainly were sweet to think of me.  Thank you, dear.

Ethel.

=THANKS FOR PRESENT TO A BABY=

Dear Mrs. Kindhart: 

Of course it would be!  Because no one else can sew like you!  The sacque you made the baby is the prettiest thing I have ever seen, and is perfectly adorable on her!  Thank you, as usual, you dear Mrs. Kindhart, for your goodness to

                               Your affectionate,
                                        Sally.

Dear Mrs. Norman: 

Thank you ever so much for the lovely afghan you sent the baby. 
It is by far the prettiest one he has; it is so soft and
close—­he doesn’t get his fingers tangled in it.

    Do come in and see him, won’t you?  We are both allowed visitors
    (especial ones) every day between 4 and 5.30!

    Affectionately always,
                Lucy.

=THE BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER=

When you have been staying over Sunday, or for longer, in some one’s house, it is absolutely necessary that you write a letter of thanks to your hostess within a few days after the visit.

“Bread and butter letters,” as they are called, are the stumbling-blocks of visitors.  Why they are so difficult for nearly every one is hard to determine, unless it is that they are often written to persons with whom you are on formal terms, and the letter should be somewhat informal in tone.  Very likely you have been visiting a friend, and must write to her mother, whom you scarcely know; perhaps you have been included in a large and rather formal house party and the hostess is an acquaintance rather than a friend; or perhaps you are a bride and have been on a first visit to relatives or old friends of your husband’s, but strangers, until now, to you.