The English Secretary
16th century book
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The English Secretary (originally The English Secretorie) is a book by the rhetorician Angel Day, first published in 1586.[1][2] Among the most notable and popular manuals of letter writing in the 16th and 17th centuries,[3][4] the work combines influences from medieval practices and Renaissance humanism, and reflects the expansion of the reading public in Elizabethan England.[5]
