1. Kindly.—A good word in itself but greatly abused.
2. We beg to state.—Never use beg in this sense. You have no right to beg attention; earn it.
3. Your favor, your esteemed favor, your valued favor.—Say, Your letter.
4. Will you be so good as to.—Belongs in the class with beg to state. Make your requests courteously, but directly.
5. Would say.—Avoid this expression.
III. Sometimes in an effort to be clear a writer uses same as a pronoun; as,
Wrong: If the books are not satisfactory, return same.
This is one of the worst of the distinctly business blunders. Same is never a pronoun. Write to a man as you talk to him and you will not use same in this way. (See [Exercise 88].)
IV. Sometimes in order to get attention a writer will use a liberal sprinkling of dashes and capitals, probably in imitation of advertising copy. Better than such artificial means is the attraction of a well worded letter.