The letter is not simply a source providing information outside itself. Also, it should be recognized its value com social practice and historical phenomenon attending the act of writing itself, the network of situations and conditions in the letter is produced and read, and their own goals, goal const ituyen the axis of this book. The study manuals correspondence when Boras diffusing norms of epistolary writing and serve as indisputable support for the Apprenticeship of it, must be the starting point for understanding how, when, who, why and what escrbían cards are and how far the theory corresponds with the practice or not. The intention of these pages is to analyze the production and dissemination strategies, materiality and the content of the epistolary manuals, both referetne to the rules established as to the models reported. Likewise the authors of these manuals and the condition of your potential readers, and the implications of gender and social clae in epistolary text, and the pedagogical function, indoctrinating and propaganda that developed the manuals in contemporary Spain from analyzes Primo de Rivera dictatorship until the early Franco.