Dear Shaista,
Thanks for your greetings. I want to dive as long as You–no longer!
Yours,
Shagufta.
(i) Happy Birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
(ii) May you see this day as often as the midnight stars!
(iii) May you birthday be as light as love and lead you as high as heaven!
(iv) Here’s a kiss for your birthday!
(v) Let gold and gladness welcome you on your birthday.
Dear Raffo,
If you run after money, you will never catch it. Stay and let money catch you.
Yours,
Mamma.
Dear Uncle,
it was so nice of you to have taken us to the Zoo last Monday. I write this to tell you how much I enjoyed that day with auntie, Pappy, Bobbu and Neeto. You gave me a nice time and I think I was very lucky. It was so grand to have ice-cream with you at the Zoo. In fact, every moment we spent together was magnificent.
Yours Lovingly,
Shafi.
Dear jim,
Thanks for your demand or command or reprimand. I am sending your neither sweets nor bitters but sours and salties. You will find pickles, chutneys, wafers, chips in the parcel when you get it. You will get the parcel if I send you. Meanwhile wait. Wait, I am sending you a if—-a big IF—-in the meantime. Tomorrow you will get an envelope with just on IF. But but me no buts. You will get a packet without ifs and buts.
Yours,
Rasie.
Dear Shahid,
Your parcel of medicines has reached me safe and intact with all the bottles in perfect shipshape order. It was very nice of you to have sent that nice packet, because here in the woods medicines are more vital than meals. Thanks a lot.
Yours lovingly,
Mummy.
Dear Everybody at home,
I am O.K. and hope all of you are O.K. I am enclosing herewith a dozen O.K.’s—-one for each. If any O.K.’s are left, return them to me. I am returning home and will bring and O.K. shirt for everyone of you. Those of you who do not like the O.K. shirts can return them O.K. and get their money back O.K. If you need more O.K.’s, please write immediately so that I may bring them along. When I return home during the summer vacation, do not ask me for O.K.’s I do not carry O.K.’s with me unless an order is put in for O.K. So put in an order for O.K. and it will be perfectly O.K. Yes, O.K.!
Yours affectionately,
O.K.
(Omar Khawaja).
To
The Prinicipal,
Government High School,
Gujranwala,
Dear Madam,
Kindly grant Anita, Second Standard, Roll No. 99, Leave for two days, 19th and 20th Feburary, as she has to attend a marriage celebration.
Thanks for faithfully,
Rehana.
Dear Auntie,
I owe you a very sincere apology. You wrote to me last month but due to preoccupation with more urgent affairs, I regret very much that your letter has remained unreplied. Do not think that I am offering you a lame excuse. My excuse has really long legs. I had so many guests at home on account of the Republic Day rush in Lahore that I could not attend to my correspondence. I wish you had joined the colourful crowd of kith and kin at our house instead of excusing yourself off. Rather an apology is due from you!
Yours affectionately,
Shaila.