her age, or of any age for that matter, to write to a married man. It paid me a thousand times over for the effort it caused her to write the note, and besides, it gave her training in thoughtfulness and courtesy. I reproduce the letter here for the benefit of those who have had no experience and no training in this sort of correspondence and who may be induced themselves to try it some time in the future:
March 9, 1921.
My dear Mr. Clark:
I want to thank you for the foreign stamps which you sent me. There were a number of them that we did not have in our collection. It was very good of you to take the trouble to send them.
Yours sincerely,
There is no other form of letter-writing that seems to me to hold so many possibilities, and there is no other form so little used. I commend it to you.
