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Business letter writing and follow-up systems : for use in schools, offices, and as a general reference book
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary364
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Warner, E. (Edgar)
- Edition
- 8th ed.
- Publication Date
- 1906
- Call Number
- 380 WAR
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV989.9.38
- Call Number
- 380 WAR
- Edition
- 8th ed.
- Author
- Warner, E. (Edgar)
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Publisher
- Commercial Text Book Co.
- Publication Date
- 1906
- Physical Description
- 148 p. : ill. : 24 cm.
- Inscription
- "McTavish Business College, Ltd. Edmonton, ALTA. Student's Name" [Stamped in purple ink on front flyleaf] "Lothe E. Mixter" [Handwritten in black ink beside student's name on front flyleaf] "90" [Handwritten on front flyleaf] "Five rules for syllabication [underlined] I Never divide except at syllables 2 Two consonants coming together are generally separated as: - num-ber [underlined] col-lect [underlined] 3 Two vowels are separated unless they form a diphthong as: pe-er [underlined] 4 A dervivative or a compound word is divided so as to throw the parts into separate syllables as: Div. im-pede [underlined] com. some-where [underlined] 5 The suffix con [underlined] never forms a separate syllable. It takes the S [underlined] or T [underlined] of the original word with it and is pronounced shun [underlined]" [Handwritten in pencil on back end paper, underlined]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Commercial correspondence
- Commercial correspondence--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Notes
- Author's full name is Warner, E. (Edgar).
I.C.S. reference library, v 21 : english grammar, punctuation and capitalization, letter writing
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary2846
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV973.106.9
- Call Number
- 425 INT
- Place of Publication
- Scranton
- Publisher
- International Textbook Co.
- Publication Date
- c1905
- c1899
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (various pagings) : diag. ; 23 cm.
- Inscription
- Title page: "13-6692" [stamped in green ink]
- Library Subject (LOC)
- English language--Grammar
- English language--Punctuation
- English language--Capitalization
- Letter writing
- Notes
- "A series of textbooks prepared for the students of the international correspondence schools and containing in permanent form the instruction papers, examination questions, and keys used in their various courses." -- t.p.
- Includes index.
Complete etiquette and letter-writer : a guide to the rules and observances of good society, with full information on the subject of correspondence, and specimen letters that may be adapted to meet any case
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3551
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV997.30.1
- Call Number
- 395.1 WAR
- Place of Publication
- London
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co., Limited
- Publication Date
- 1890
- Printer
- Butler & Tanner, The Selwood Printing Works
- Physical Description
- 288 p. ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Etiquette
- Letter writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Notes
- Includes index.
Gaskell's compendium of forms : educational, social, legal and commercial : embracing a complete self-teaching course in penmanship and bookkeeping, and aid to English composition : together with the laws and by-laws of social etiquette and busniess laws and commercial forms : a political dictionary, a biographical dictionary, the government of the U. S., the states and territorial governments, colored charts, etc. etc., also a manual of agricultural, mechanics and mining, and a complete guide to parliamentary practice, the whole forming a complete encyclopedia of reference : elegantly illustrated
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3491
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.5288.1
- Call Number
- 031 GAS
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Fairbanks & Palmer Pub. Co.
- Publication Date
- c1884
- Printer
- Blakely, Marsh & Co.
- Physical Description
- 920 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Bookkeeping
- Penmanship
- Letter writing
- Etiquette
- Parliamentary practice
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Author's full name and date: Gaskell, G. A. (George A.), 1844-
The new standard business and social letter-writer : business, family and social correspondence, refined love-letters, marriage proposals, acceptances and refusals, etiquette, synonyms, legal forms, etc., alphabets showing different styles of lettering, communications from noted people
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary637
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Chambers, Alfred B.
- Publication Date
- c1911
- Call Number
- 395.4 CHA
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.982.2
- Call Number
- 395.4 CHA
- Author
- Chambers, Alfred B.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- Laird & Lee
- Publication Date
- c1911
- Physical Description
- xviii, 277 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Letter writing
The social letter
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5196
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Myers, Elizabeth
- Publication Date
- c1918
- Call Number
- 395.1 MYE
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV002.90.2
- Call Number
- 395.1 MYE
- Author
- Myers, Elizabeth
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Publisher
- Brentano's
- Publication Date
- c1918
- Physical Description
- xiii, 147 p. ; 19 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Letter writing
- Etiquette
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Grade five class project
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription97991
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of grade five student Dharshana Yogarasa, standing in front of a classroom and holding a poster board featuring correspondence from the class's letter writing project to peacekeepers. Yogarasa is standing in front of unidentified students seated at desks and the unidentified teacher.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [2000]
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby NewsLeader photograph collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph (tiff) : col.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 535-3095
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- 2018-12
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of grade five student Dharshana Yogarasa, standing in front of a classroom and holding a poster board featuring correspondence from the class's letter writing project to peacekeepers. Yogarasa is standing in front of unidentified students seated at desks and the unidentified teacher.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Photographer
- Bartel, Mario
- Notes
- Title based on caption
- Collected by editorial for use in a February 2000 issue of the Burnaby NewsLeader
- Caption from metadata: "Dharshana Yogarasa, 10, shows off the replies her grade five class has received from a letter writing project to peacekeepers around the world."
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Land of promise : Robert Burnaby's letters from colonial British Columbia, 1858-1863
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary5465
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Call Number
- 971.1 BUR COPY 3
without personality. It was indeed a surprise to read Burnaby’s
beautifully written letters of the early days of colonial British Columbia
and especially his account of the exploration of the lake in the City that
would bear his name. His prose provides a beautiful example of the
lost art of letter writing. Perhaps
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Reference Collection
- Digital Reference Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0969282850
- 9780969282853
- Call Number
- 971.1 BUR COPY 3
- Place of Publication
- Burnaby, B.C.
- Publisher
- City of Burnaby
- Publication Date
- c2002
- Physical Description
- 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Burnaby, Robert--Correspondence
- Merchants--British Columbia--Correspondence
- British Columbia--History--1849-1871
- Burnaby (B.C.)
- Biography
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190) and index.
- 3 copies held: copy 3.
Digital Books
The complete library of universal knowledge : ten great books in one volume : the culmination of centuries of human effort showing the newest conditions of industry, commerce, invention, science, art, literature, philosophy, etc., etc. : including also self-instruction in bookkeeping, computation, correspondence, points of law and legal forms, penmanship and shorthand supplemented by review questions for students
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary1467
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- BV985.3697.1
- Call Number
- 031 CAR
- Contributor
- Cary, Ferdinand Ellsworth, 1848-
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Publisher
- C.F. Beezley
- Publication Date
- c1904
- Physical Description
- 702 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- Notes
- Contains: Modern inventions and discoveries--Wonders of industrial progress--A Vivid array of facts concerning diferent nations--A Thousand things worth knowing--Solid food for sound minds--Facts for the curious--Self-instruction in bookkeeping--Commercial arithmetic and ready reckoner--Law without a lawyer--Self instruction in letter writing--Spelling and punctuation--Self instruction in modern writing--Self instruction in short-hand writing--One hundred ways to make money
- review questions for students are in the back
- Contributor's given name and contribution: Cary, Ferdinand Ellsworth (editor)