In the 15th century at universities of Europe studied a science to write letters. In the help to teachers and students special manuals - "letter writers" - collections of samples of letters on different cases of life were made.
At the Krakow University so learned to make the correct love letters: the beginning with the refined greeting, then was necessary to eulogize beauty of the addressee with obligatory addition about attractiveness and virtue, further to add a wish that the addressee of the letter was sedate, safe and healthy, and to finish the letter about destinies to will Supreme, about its protection and protection. However then university reform has cancelled this compulsion and, that the most interesting, it has opened road for a change and originality in terms of feelings. Long live freedom!
In later editions, for example, in "Manual" of 1822 it is spoken: "Letters are invented for the message of ideas of the by another. They serve instead of speech conversation, and as though before eyes represent people removed from each other, even on great distance".
Rather exact statement. What their recommendations about a spelling? "The written syllable should be not too high, is not forced. It should be simple and similar to the ordinary conversation represented on a paper. The more simply, it is more pleasant, the closer to heart. Rhetorical figures are necessary for it not: set of exclamations, manipulations, no less than the long periods necessary sometimes in the other sort of compositions. Nevertheless, to write simply and freely, thoroughly should know the language to not lose balance and, having risen too highly, not to undergo to falling. As much as we work above the letter the be more imperceptible should, that we worked. Skill is to hide art and to approach how many it is possible closer to the Nature: that all seemed natural, freely given vent; that everyone could tell, that it differently to express better is impossible".