Read the full book:
Part 1 Postage Stamps
Part 2 Fundamental Principles
Part 3 Advertising
Part 4 Real Estate
Part 5 Business Letter
Part 6 Mail Order
Part 7 Waste Basket
Part 8 Correspondence School
Part 9 Gasoline Engines
Part 10 Station Agent
Part 11 Personal Touch
Part 12 Business Stationery
Part 13 Square Inch
Part 14 Progressive Business
Part 15 Question Mark
Part 16 Sales Letter
Part 17 Inquiry Letter
Part 18 Advertising Manager
Part 19 Price List
Part 20 Post Card
Part 21 Money Order
Part 22 Style Book
Part 23 In Business
Part 24 Selling Price

 

Effective communication is at the heart of effective business. This website is dedicated to presenting some basic; almost primal; ideas of effective business communication. It is the full text of a 19th century book of unknown authorship.

This site is set up with the purpose of popularizing this great; though simple; piece of business literature. Set in an era when business communication dealt with relatively simple issues, it open with a chapter on Postage Stamps and goes on to examine various aspects of business correspondence. Right from the structure of business notes to the right method of addressing the person you are writing too.

Focusing primarily on effective written business communication, this book is quite a marvel in its outlook. If not for the purpose of gaining some insight into effective business communication, then for the sheer pleasure of reading an "ancient" business text, make sure to go through this entire book.