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How to Write Love Letters : LETTER LXXVI. From a Gentleman to a Lady whom...by Madame le Fontaine (Carleton B. Case, ed)
Return to "How to Write Love Letters" Index LETTER LXXVI. From a Gentleman to a Lady whom...LETTER LXXVI. From a Gentleman to a Lady whom he has Occasion- ally met at Parties.New York, January 7, 1914. Although I have had the honor and happiness of meeting you on several occasions in society, it has been under such circumstances as precluded my addressing you in other language than that adopted in ordinary social intercourse. I trust, therefore, you will pardon me for having taken this method of communicating to you, for the first time, a subject of serious and delicate import. The numerous opportunities for observation that have been afforded me have served to convince me that the lady I am addressing possesses moral qualities and mental endowments equal to her personal graces. These combined attractions have made a deep and lasting impression upon me, and to their possessor I beg most respectfully, most sincerely, to tender my homage. As I may happily claim the privilege of being not altogether a stranger to you, my antecedents, as well is my present position, are matters with which you are already, possibly, acquainted; and with regard to my character, I trust that any of the friends beneath whose roof we have met, will be able to inform you sattisfactorily. If, therefore, you do not regard my appeal with disfavor, may I beg the honor of an interview, in order that I may speak to you more fully upon the subject to which I have here briefly alluded? Anxiously awaiting your reply, I remain, Your most obedient servant, Arthur Prescott. To Miss Adela Winthrop. |
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