Formal Letter Writing

[Unregistered]

Do you write out your name above the return address of the letter?

 

[Anglika]

No.

 

[Jerry97]

Yes.

 

[Anglika]

In formal English letter writing, where the source address is at top centre or top right of the page, it is not normal to include your name,

For example:

42, Greyhound Road
Perry Barr
Birmingham
B42 6HJ​

Mr. E. Scrooge
The Manager
Barclay’s Bank Ltd
113 Mammon Street
Andover
HU4 9ET

5 April 2003

Dear Mr. Scrooge,
Application for post of trainee manager
TEXT OF LETTER.

Yours sincerely
Jane Teller

Your address, but not your name, usually goes in the top right hand corner. You would not usually include your telephone number or email address here, but this would be permissible.

 

[RonBee]

In formal English letter writing, where the source address is at top centre or top right of the page, it is not normal to include your name,

For example:

42, Greyhound Road
Perry Barr
Birmingham
B42 6HJ​

Mr. E. Scrooge
The Manager
Barclay’s Bank Ltd
113 Mammon Street
Andover
HU4 9ET

5 April 2003

Dear Mr. Scrooge,
Application for post of trainee manager
TEXT OF LETTER.

Yours sincerely
Jane Teller

Your address, but not your name, usually goes in the top right hand corner. You would not usually include your telephone number or email address here, but this would be permissible.

It may be that practices in the USA and in the UK are different in that respect. I would always put my name there (above the address).

~R