death-if

Updated: May 13, 2025

It is a breach of etiquette to leave a card after being informed that the person visited is at home. When you have been informed of an important event in the family of a friend-a birth, a marriage, or a death-if you are unable to offer personal congratulation or condolence, you may leave a card within a week.

Sarah Annie Frost - Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society: A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages: in America, containing plain and reliable directions for: deportment in every situation in life.