Letters and Letter-writing Charity
Dye
Success in Letter-writing Sherwin
Cody
How to do Business by Letter "
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Charm and Courtesy in Letter-writing Frances
B. Callaway
Studies for Letters "
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The Gentlest Art E.V.
Lucas
The Second Post " " "
The Friendly Craft F.D.
Hanscom
Life and Letters of Miss Alcott E.D.
Cheney (Ed.)
Vailima Letters R.L.
Stevenson
Letters of William Vaughn Moody Daniel Mason
(Ed.)
Letters from Colonial Children Eva March
Tappan
Woman as Letter-writers A.M.
Ingpen.
The Etiquette of Correspondence Helen E.
Gavit
EXERCISES IN DRAMATIC COMPOSITION
I. Write a conversation suggested by one of the following situations. Wherever it seems desirable to do so, give, in parentheses, directions for the action, and indicate the gestures and the facial expressions of the speakers.
1. Tom has had
trouble at school; he is questioned at home
about the matter.
2. Two girls discuss
a party that has taken place the night
before.
3. A child and his mother are talking about Christmas.
4. Clayton Wells
is running for the presidency of the Senior
class in the high school;
he talks with some of his
schoolmates, and is
talked about.
5. There has been
a fire at the factory; some of the men talk
about its origin.
6. A girl borrows her sister’s pearl pin and loses it.
7. Unexpected guests
have arrived; while they are removing
their wraps in the hall,
a conversation takes place in the
kitchen.
8. Anna wishes
to go on a boating expedition, but her father
and mother object.
9. The crops in
a certain district have failed; two young
farmers talk over the
situation.
10. Two girls are
getting dinner; their mother is away, and
they are obliged to
plan and do everything themselves.
11. A boy has won
a prize, and two or three other boys are
talking with him.
12. The prize-winning
student has gone, and the other boys are
talking about him.
13. The furnace
fire has gone out; various members of the
family express their
annoyance, and the person who is to blame
defends himself.
14. Grandfather has lost his spectacles.
15. Laura has seen
a beautiful hat in a shop window, and talks
with her mother about
it.
16. Two men talk of the coming election of city officers.
17. A boy has been
removed from the football team on account of
his low standings; members
of the team discuss the situation.