Putnam's Phrase Book / An Aid to Social Letter Writing and to Ready and Effective Conversation, with Over 100 Model Social Letters and 6000 of the World's Best English Phrases

by Edwin Hamlin Carr

Your Friend,

REPLY TO CONDOLATORY LETTER

My dear ————,

I am very grateful for your kind expression of sympathy. My heart is filled with gratitude when I think of my good friends.

Sincerely yours,

My dear ————,

Permit me to thank you in behalf of ———— for your courteous message of sympathy.

Sincerely yours,

My dear ————,

I thank you kindly for your consoling letter. Though I have waited some time to reply, its messages were none the less deeply appreciated.