About the Art of Applied Letters. The Letters to Offices and Documents in the Textbooks for Teaching of Correspondence in 19th Century

These ponderings result from the analysis of textbooks for teaching the art of correspondence between 1835–1914. They show different models of correspondence and documents such as letters of request, complaint, appeal, and agreements, trades contracts, contracts of services, testaments and others. Designed for all societal classes, the textbooks served to popularize the tenets of law. They propagated the models of shorts and matter-of-fact letters, as well as documents including very well described obligations.