Hi, I'd suggest this. On an envelope The Reverend and Mrs. Anderson. Many, if not all, married women today prefer not to be spoken of as eg 'Mrs. Tom Anderson'. They feel it diminishes their individuality and their

One book suggests: The Rev. and Mrs. Tom R. Anderson on the envelope. Start a business letter with Reverend Sir: Start a social letter with My dear Mr. Anderson:

When should you use "Ms." and when should you use "Miss" when greeting a female in a business letter?

I would use "Dear Mr. XX and Ms. XX". You could also reverse the order. For the envelope, I would use two lines, one for each person.

Which is the correct way to puncuate the salutation of a business letter?

And yet on this side of the Atlantic, we certainly put a comma after the greeting in an informal letter and a colon after the greeting in a business letter. Right... perhaps there are UK/US differences then. I don't recall ever seeing a

And yet on this side of the Atlantic, we certainly put a comma after the greeting in an informal letter and a colon after the greeting in a business letter. Dear Mary, It was so nice to hear from you. Dear Ms. Smith: Thank you for

Hi, I assume you are talking about a business letter. Personally, I don't remember writing such letters to multiple people. The normal approach in my experience has been to write to one of the people, then 'cc' the others

R J Valentine or, for a business letter, Dear Father Fontana: IMO: "Dear Fr. Fontana," unless you also spell out "Mister" (and other titles) in other greetings. Huh. And here was me thinking that "Fr." stood for

R J Valentine I think the "correct" salutation used to be "Reverend and dearFather", which sort of nods to your point. Myself, I'd ... in the salutation, as in: Rev. Richard Fontana ... Dear Father Fontana, or, for a