This book will be especially helpful to those in schools and colleges where commercial correspondence is taught either in a general business course or as a preparation for commercial and professional examinations.

Speciai features include:
* Summary of the rules of good writing and the structure of the modern business letter
* Well-balanced and carefully classified selection of more than six hundred letters covering a wide range of transactions of the kind handled in business every day
* Exercises, introduced at suitable intervals within their respective chapters and providing adequate practice material at each stage of the work
* Glossaries of term for overseas users and others who may need help with the text
* A classified reference, 'Summary of Letters', for readers wishing to use the collection as an office desk-book; and an unusually full index for quick reference to the contents of the book as a whole.

For this new edition, blocked style, now tirmly established as the recomended way to set out letters, has been adopted throughout. Many new letters dealing with types of business transactions not covered in earlier editions have also been included, and the opportunity has been taken to update quoted prices as well as to express quantities in metric in keeping with official policy. Additions and improvements have also been made to the explanatory text.