Yours truly Truly yours Respectfully yours Yours respectfully or, if it is desired to give more emphasis, the adverb very may be added, as, Very truly yours Yours very respectfully.Īccording to Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage, yours &c was a common letter form that preceded one's signature in a letter. For business letters he lists many possibilities: indicates that the closing is of the "usual form," there is no one usual form. in Pride and Prejudice may have been nothing more than a way to reduce the required typesetting.Įven though he states that &c. Doubtless some thoughtless writer seeing this, concluded that it looked well and gave the letter an air of business despatch hence it came into its present improper use. Printers frequently abbreviate the complimentary closing of a letter, and to save type or time they print Yours, &c, which implies that the letter is closed in the usual form. This awkward expression is very common in business letters. Hence there can be no propriety in saying I am yours and others, or I am respectfully yours and onward.
is an abbreviation of etc., which is an abbreviation from the Latin words et cetera, meaning and others, or, and so forth forth means onward or forward. In closing a letter never subscribe yourself Yours, &c.
Locke states in The Art of Correspondence (1884):
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