Comments on: Bread and Butter letter

By: marie

marie — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 07:02:12 +0000

I did not know the term “bread and butter note” applied only to thank you’s! My mother and my aunts wrote regularly to one another about ordinary everyday events, such as one would talk on the phone, or email or text today. They referred to these weekly notes as “bread and butter notes. They were beautiful notes, written in lovely hand.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 06:01:26 +0000

I loved going to all those parties last summer. The only bad thing was having to write all those bread and butter letters afterwards.

By: rowela

rowela — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:32:01 +0000

i keep thinking if the bread and butter letter is a full block letter or not…????

By: Pernille

Pernille — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:25:16 +0000

I recently found this called a Collins letter (in plural: Collinses), surely after Mr. Collins in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”. It came in a 1935 novel by a rather upper-class female author, Ann Bridge (now long forgotten).

By: Twelvefeet

Twelvefeet — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:46:03 +0000

In Rosamunde Pilcher’s novel, Coming Home, Judith Dunbar writes a “bread and butter letter” after her first visit to the Carey-Lewis home, Nancherrow.

By: XL-3750

XL-3750 — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:40:06 +0000

I’ve never heard of a Bread and Butter letter before, We use it to describe an everyday thing or event. That’s his bread and butter etc.

By: Connie Confer

Connie Confer — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:53:36 +0000

In Pennsylvania in the 40′s and 50′s and even to this day. one person would say “bread and butter” and the person on the other side of the post or whatever seperated them momentarily would answer “salt and pepper”

By: Juliet Bushinski

Juliet Bushinski — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:58:43 +0000

I believe there is a quote that goes something like, “daily pleasantries and simple courtesies are the bread and butter that keep civilization from starvaton”…. so, therefore, a bread and butter letter is a standard thank you note.

By: Carol Campbell

Carol Campbell — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:07:05 +0000

Saying “bread and butter” when momentarily separated is common in my part of the country, too, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas. I always believed it mean that the two people should stay close, like bread and butter, which when joined cannot be separated.

By: Audrey Massey

Audrey Massey — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:21:24 +0000

I don’t think saying “bread and butter” when an object separates one from a friend while walking, etc. is strictly Midwestern, as my childhood friends and I said that in Middle Tennessee in the 1940′s-50′s.

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By: deUz

deUz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 01:10:23 +0000

is somebody out there can give samples on how to use the Bread and Butter into a sentence…thanks.