SYMPATHY TO INVALID

Dear Uncle,

We are distressed to hear that you have been struck by paralysis and rendered invalid for life. Could we be of some help to you? On such occasions one is often hard put to be able to manage: but if there is anything we can do, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are thinking of you every day and wondering how do you do. We shall phone from time to time to learn about time.

Yours lovingly,

Rahat Chanda.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Amna,

Thanks for your sincerest expression of sympathy over the illness of Deba. All things are being managed as best as possible. We shall inform if and when we need your help. Everything rests in the hands of God.

Yours sincerely,

Dawood.

LETTER OF SYMPATHY IN ILLNESS

Dear Dawood,

We are all sorry to hear that Deba is confined to bed with illness. We need hardly tell you that we are deeply concerned at this. Our prayers for her early recovery are with you. Please let us know without delay or hesitation if we can be of any help to you in your present suffering. We are worried about the children of Deba. What a heavy extra burden it must be on your shoulders to look after them when their mother is lingering between life and death. Kindly send them over here. It will be not trouble to us to take care of them. As Deba has been a second mother to my children, I can be a second mother to her children. Anxiously waiting for an early reply.

Yours sincerely,

Amna.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Khalid,

Many thanks for your charming present. It is a lively and lovely book not growing old too soon. I had such a fine time reading it yesterday. Now I feel fit and fine to begin a new life of dutiful ugliness–merrying and carrying on. I only pray that my head should remain in its place and childhood linger on in mind forever and ever. I hate to grow old, yet old I must grow.

Yours sincerely,

Razo.

REPLY TO ABOVE

Dear Reshman,

It was very nice of you to have remembered me on my birthday, and still nicer to present me with a Parker Pen with which I am writing this letter. Everytime I write, whatever I write, my heart always thanks you. You will be delighted to hear that there was not a single pen in the house when your Parker arrived. A golden gift so greatly desired, so badly wanted, so willingly accepted, and so selflessly sent by a close friend like you ! Tell mother that it is long since she came to see us. We are really beginning to wonder if she has forgotton us. Why not bring her along next Sunday !

yours lovingly,

Farhana.

BIRTHDAY PRESENT

Dear Farhana

It is your birthday tomorrow and I wish you all the joy and happiness that you can wish for yourself. I want the wishes to be horses so that both of us can ride them together. I am enclosing herewith a small present as a symbol of my regard for you.

Please accept it.

Thanks,

Yours sincerely,

Reshman.

ON BECOMING A GRANDFATHER

Dear Sadiq,

Please accept our heartiest congrtulations on your becoming a grandfather. We were pleased to hear that your son has started off with a son in your lifetime in keeping with the family line. I am told the boy is bright, bonny and beautiful. How proud you must be! Believe me I am doing my best to get time to come to you to feast my eyes on the young heir apparent.

Yours sincerely, \ Riaz-ur-Rehman Rizvi.

ANOTHER APPRECIATION

Dear Hasan Gilani,

I was delighted to know from the announcement in a Pindi Daily that you are now the father of a sweet son. You and Mrs. Hasan must feel very proud of the newborn. A new candle has been lighted in your house. We are glad to know that Mrs. Hasan is doing well. I would like to come and see her on my way to Peshawar. It was extremely kind of you to have let us know before others about the blessed new-born.

Yours sincerely,

Mohammad Laiq.