The national encyclopædia of business and social forms, embracing the laws of etiquette and good society (1879)
McCabe, James Dabney, 1842-1883. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, Chicago [etc.] The National publishing co · leaf 174
r ashamed for hisfriends to see his writing, and is never disgraced by a wretched scrawl inaddressing a letter to a stranger. A good hand is also an invaluable aid to a young man seeking employment.A merchant in employing clerks and salesmen will always give the preference tothe best penman. A… … Whether a person is a good penman or not, it is necessary that he shouldknow how to make use of his ability to write, or, in other words, how to transfercorrectly his thoughts to paper. The first requisite is to know how to spell correctly. This is even more im-portant than writing a good hand. A…
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