Part 41 (1/2)

648 West 168th Street, New York, N. Y., April 4, 1922.

Mr. B. C. Kellerman, 1139 Broad Street, New York, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

This may interest you:

I can take dictation at an average rate of 100 words a minute and I can read my notes. They are always accurate. If you will try me, you will find you do not have to repeat any dictation.

I never misspell words.

I am nineteen, a high school graduate, quick and accurate at figures. I have a good position now, uptown, but I should prefer to be with some large corporation downtown. I am interested in a position with room at the top.

I am willing to work for $18 a week until I have demonstrated my ability and then I know you will think me worth more.

A letter or a telephone message will bring me in any morning you say to take your morning's dictation, write your letters, and leave the verdict to you.

Will you let me try?

Very truly yours, Edith Hoyt.

Telephone Riverside 8100

_Application for position as secretary_

149 East 56th Street, Chicago, Ill., December 1, 1923.

Mr. Ralph Hodge, Boone & Co., 2000 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

This is in answer to your advertis.e.m.e.nt for a secretary. I have had the experience and training which would, I think enable me satisfactorily to fill such a position. I recognize, of course, that whatever my experience and training have been they would be worse than useless unless they could be modified to suit your exact requirements. (Here set out the experience.)

The lowest salary I have ever received was twelve dollars a week, when I began work. The highest salary I have received was thirty dollars a week, but I think that it would be better to leave the salary matter open until it might be discovered whether I am worth anything or nothing.

Very truly yours, (Miss) Mary Rogers.

_Answer to an advertis.e.m.e.nt from an applicant who has had no experience_

245 East 83rd Street, Chicago, Ill.

Mr. Ralph Hodge, Boone & Co., 2000 So. Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir:

This is in answer to your advertis.e.m.e.nt for a secretary, in which you ask that the experience of the applicant be set forth. I have had no experience whatsoever as a secretary.

Therefore, although I might have a great deal to learn, I should have nothing to unlearn.

I understand what is expected of a secretary, and I hope that I have at least the initial qualifications. I have had a fair education, having graduated from Central High School and the Crawford Business Academy, and I have done a great deal of reading. I am told that I can write a good letter. I know that I can take any kind of dictation and that I can transcribe it accurately, and I have no difficulty in writing letters from skeleton suggestions.