Describes the basic parts of many types of business and personal letters, offers examples of each kind, and suggests ways to write effectively for particular situations.

When brothers Reggie and Nigel Heath lease law offices at 221B Baker Street in London, they discover that it comes with a unique stipulation: the responsibility of answering mail that arrives for previous resident - Sherlock Holmes. In this smart and charming mystery, an elderly American heiress wants to leave her fortune to Holmes, a translator wants him to explain a nursery rhyme, and media mogul Robert Buxton - Reggie's romantic rival - goes missing....

"It's the holiday season, and Jake is determined to have the best Christmas ever, which of course means getting lots of presents! When he writes letters to Santa that include his never-ending gift requests, some speedy shipping suggestions, and a reminder for St. Nick to kindly reply, will Jake get all that he hopes for? Or will Santa teach him a valuable lesson in this delightfully charming story about the Christmas...when Santa wrote back! A cleverly...

Despite living far away from his grandmother, a little boy finds a way to give her a speical kind of hug with help from the Hug Delivery Specialist.

Corduroy shows Lisa that writing letters to express your opinion can make a difference.

Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters--to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never...

When her father goes away, eleven-year-old California "Callie" Poppy winds up with her eccentric Great-Aunt Monica and their ancestor, the once-famous etiquette expert Eleanor Fontaine, now a hypersensitive ghost.

A fictionalized look at the life of Joseph Jacobs, son of a slave, told in the form of letters that he might have written during his life in pre-Civil War North Carolina, on a whaling expedition, in New York, New England, and finally in California during the Gold Rush.

Clayton Fincannon is a Tennessee farm boy raised at the feet of his grandfather. He and his grandfather leave letters for each other in a Mason jar on his grandfather's desk; letters of counsel and affirmation. When Clayton attends college in Southern California, he meets and falls in love with a dark débutante named Eden. However, when an unmentioned past resurrects in her life and she vanishes, Clayton is left with unanswered questions. Clayton...