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18th century Divan literature poet and author Tokatlı Ebûbekir Kânî known mostly with his letters in the “Münşeât” in literature history These letters attract attention with their different features from the usual letter examples In his letters Kânî used different styles including peculiar humor and satire elements In the Münşeât’s of Kânî there is found an example of letter with a heading “Bir Hediye Esb Hakkında Tahrîr İtdükleri Kâ’ime i Latîfe âmîz” author wrote this letter for a horse given him as a gift In this letter Kânî described the situation of horse which is not available for given as a gift with using humor and satire elements he mentioned the horse and using some words related to horse by using some idioms and proverbs In this article Kânî’s subject matter letters’ text will given and will evaluated with its format content language and exposition properties Key words: Kânî humor satire letter münşeât

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