Letters of reference or recommendation are common devices in the corporate world. Many people request letters of reference from current or former employers, and employers may be more than happy to ...

Numerous situations arise in professional business settings that necessitate formal correspondence. You might need to send a letter to an executive in the company requesting their presence at an event ...

If you’re active in the workforce then you don’t operate in isolation: you’ll have undoubtedly gained advantages from colleagues, bosses and mentors in the past, and you can pay that forward for ...

The Earl of Chesterfield, the 18th-century British statesman and patron of the arts, had a number of concerns about his illegitimate son Philip, but one he revisited often in his posthumously ...

The United States Postal Service handles more than 150 billion pieces of mail each year. And millions of them wind up at one of the most recognizable addresses: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, ...

In July, 1947, while at summer camp in Oak Bluffs, on Martha’s Vineyard, a fourteen-year-old Sylvia Plath wrote a letter to her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath. “I am very busy, but not too much to ...