ate.

Cordially yours,
John Hope.

(B)

Canajoharie, New York,
June 8, 1922.

My dear Mrs. Evans,

This will introduce to you Miss Caroline Wagner who is the
daughter of one of my oldest friends. She will be in New York
this winter to continue her music studies.

She is a girl of charming personality and has many
accomplishments. I am sure you will enjoy her company. She is
a stranger in New York and any courtesy you may extend to her
I shall be deeply grateful for.

Very sincerely yours,
Edna Hamilton Miller.

Mrs. John Evans
500 Park Avenue
New York, N. Y.

(C)

8 Beacon Street,
Boston, Mass.,
March 17, 1922.

My dear Brent,

The bearer, William Jones, is a young acquaintance of mine who
is going to live in Cleveland. If there is anything you can do
without too much trouble to yourself in recommending a place
to board, or assisting him to a situation, I shall be
grateful. He has good habits, and if he gets a foothold I am
sure he will make good.

Yours sincerely,
Robert T. Hill.

Another letter, already immortal as a literary gem, is Benjamin
Franklin's "Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are
Unacquainted With":

Sir,

The bearer of this, who is going to America, presses me to
give him a letter of recommendation, though I know nothing of
him, not even his name. This may seem extraordinary, but I
assure you it is not uncommon here. Sometimes, indeed, one
unknown person brings another equally unknown, to recommend
him; and sometimes they recommend one another! As to this
gentleman, I must refer you to himself for his character and
merits, with which he is certainly better acquainted than I
can possibly be. I recommend him, however, to those
civilities, which every stranger, of whom one knows no harm,
has a right to; and I request you will do him all the good
offices, and show him all the favor, that, on further