Regency letter-writing--bread-and-butter boring business letters?

[predatrix]

Context:

Fanfic, set in the British Regency, slash pairing, letters between a gentleman and the man he sends out to buy books.  The gentleman is well-off, and the man is from his household, so there isn't an issue with costs for paper, ink, or postage. Neither of them are at all overtly sentimental,  and I love writing covert-declarations-and-

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[orange_fell]

Just to clarify, the "man from his household he sends out to buy books" is some type of servant, correct?

[predatrix]

Sort of. It's his "man of business", so he's clearly on the "servant" side rather than "gentry", but he's touchy about being considered a servant, and doesn't precisely fit into the hierarchy of "the household servants". The gentleman certainly doesn't regard him as his equal in class, but allows him a certain amount of freedom of speech as long as there's nobody else there to consider it less than respectable.