More Edwardian Etiquette of First Calls

If she is at home you leave no card of your own, but one of your husband’s for an unmarried and two for a married woman.

First Calls and Cards

A first call should be returned within a week: The correct hours for calling are between 3 and 6 in the afternoon. If your hostess is out, you leave one of your own cards for her and two of your husband’s – one for her and one for her husband. 

If she is unmarried, you leave only one of your husband's cards, with the one of your own. If you are unmarried you leave one card of your own.

If she is at home you leave no card of your own, but one of your husband’s for an unmarried and two for a married woman.

The general length of time for a call is about twenty minutes. Anything in the way of an umbrella or parcel that you happen to be carrying should be left in the hall.– Good Form, Riverside Enterprise, 1911

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