Category Archives: Letters

Dear Wasim,

You have paid me the greatest tribute any girl can receive, and the least I can do is to give you my answer promptly and frankly. I am sorry, the answer is No. Please excuse me for having wasted your time and given you false hopes. Actually I did not know the answer myself. Only yesterday I came to the final decision that we cannot be happy in marriage due to irreconcilability between temperaments of both of us. We have too many sharp edges of character and I don’t think we shall be able to fit well into each other’s life. Please excuse me for having disappointed you.

Yours faithfully,

Salma.

My Dear Niyaz,

Your letters have puzzled me greatly. I have written you long letters. I have poured out my heart to you but you are still an enigma to me. I don’t know whether you love me at all? Please be frank.

Yours eternally,

Gulnar.

Dear Sabir,

You have asked me to reply you you in Yes or No. I fear the question of marriage cannot be answered so simply and so quickly. You must agree that a woman must feel the ground on which she is required to tread before putting her foot down or up. I like you exceedingly. You know that perfectly well. But honestly speaking I do not know yet whether I love you. There is a gulf between loving and liking, also between loving and marrying. I like you but do not know whether I love you, still less whether I can marry you. So do not hurry up a yes-or no decision. The other side of the picture is that you may one day rise and find that I am not quite all you imagine now, and then you may end u in frustration. I should hate to see you hate a thing you look like a cat in the bag. Full knowledge of each other should precede a successful marriage. I know that this she didn’t-say-yes-she-didn’t-say-no business is unsatisfactory but there is no alternative to it. May I make a suggestion? Let’s go on writing to each other as before, and see how it works out in the near future. But no ties yet. If either of us meets anyone else, the other should not grudge. But do not think I have already met someone equal or superior to you. I haven’t met anyone as yet. If I do I’ll tell you at once. I expect you to do the same — for this is my risk as well as yours.

Yours sincerely,

Saira Bano.

My Dear Gulnar,

I love you and do express my love for you. Do you think that friends cannot love each other? I have loved you always and will continue to love you as a friend. I can only hope that your fountain of love will not run dry when you read this letter. But do you think there is only one kind of love that must culminate in marriage?

Yours in love,

Niyaz.

Dear Saira,

You have made your side of the picture clear. Now it is my turn, I’ll wait and see till you marry me or some body else before I find an alternative match.

Yours sincerely,

Sabir.

Dear Niyaz,

Your letter saddened me a little but it gave me happiness also. It made me sing. It was then that I realised the truth in Shelly: “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of sad thoughts.” I sang, I wept, I felt happy. I could lie down like a tired child and weep away the life of care. I am a foolish little girl, Niyaz, forgive me and forget me.

Yours in agony,

Gulnar.

Dear Betty,

I have heard whispers spreading in four corners which are linking your name with a certain gentleman in military service. And, today, I have been told outright that you have been engaged to him. Let me be one of the first to offer you my congratulations. Needless to say, he must be a very lucky man and he, too, deserves, congratulations. I am sure you will make a wonderful housewife and I can imagine you presiding over a delight household to which, I trust, I may at times be invited. I wish both of you a very happy and successful life.

Yours sincerely,

Jack Morris.

Even if Mr. Aamir has failed in the Marticulation examination, nevertheless he should be offered a little higher salary so that he may spare some money to do better next year in the examination.

Yours faithfully,

Dear Sir,

With reference to your letter No. nil dated February 1, 1994, addressed to the Commissioner, Lahore Division, I am directed to inform you that its contents have been noted.

Yours etc-

Sd…..

Secretary to the commissioner.

Dear Mr. Rizwan Ahmad,

With reference to your application for part-time Librarianship you are requested to appear before the College Library Committee on March 25 at 3 p.m. for an interview.

Yours faithfully,

X.Y.Z.

Principal.