One story is that the song was written by a Scottish soldier who awaited death in enemy captivity ; in his final letter home, he wrote this song, portraying his home and how much he would miss it.

Johannes Junius ( 1573 – August 6, 1628 ) was the mayor ( German: Bürgermeister ) of Bamberg, and a victim of the Bamberg witch trials, who wrote a letter to his daughter from jail while he awaited execution for witchcraft.

From the last letter of Andrew Kim Taegŏn to his parish as he awaited martyrdom with a group of twenty persons:

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

A letter signed `` Isabell Bardall '' entreated `` Good Cozen '' Quiney to find her stepson Adrian, son of George Bardell, a place in London with some handicraftsman.

But when you write to Congresswoman Church, bless her heart, your letter is answered fully and completely.

Juanita drooped about the place, wearing a haunted, brooding look, which Kate attributed to the baby's death, until the day a letter came for her addressed to `` Miss Juanita Fitzroy '', bearing a Grafton postmark.

Kate tried to contain her curiosity and foreboding at what the letter portended, at what involvement existed for Juanita.

I lived to see an envelope of hers in the morning mail and to lock myself in my room in the afternoon to reread her letter for the tenth time and finally prepare an answer.

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.

When in one letter Jessica informed me that her father did not like the idea of her going out alone on New Year's Eve, I knew for a moment an immense relief ; ;

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

She had held to the letter of her contract and didn't come onto the stage until well after 4 p.m., the appointed hour, although the Music at Newport people had tried to get the program underway at 3.

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

There was a letter to write to her mother, and she tried to make its tone cheerful.

She had reason indeed to wonder how the letter had managed to find her.

She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.

Cady handed her the letter, drank his coffee and waited with what he suddenly realized was belligerence.

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

When he started school at the age of five-and-a-half, he could not understand why the alphabet begins with the letter A, instead of C, as in the scale.

His letter had suggested we meet at my hotel at noon on Sunday, and I came into the lobby as the clock struck twelve.

It purports to be a letter from Steele to a friend at court, who, in Miss Blanchard's opinion, could only be meant as Swift.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

but the letter went on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been miserable at his refusal, and finally he had relented -- and now how happy she was, how expectant!!

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

The pastor writes a personal letter to each individual, expressing his joy over the decision, assuring him of a pastoral call at the earliest convenient time, and outlining the plan for membership preparation classes and Membership Sunday.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Some alphabets today, such as the Hanuno ' o script, are learned one letter at a time, in no particular order, and are not used for collation where a definite order is required.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

Shortly before graduation, as he considered his future role as minister of a parish, he had received a letter from Robert Russell Wicks, formerly the Dean of the Chapel at Princeton, and now serving as school minister at Phillips Exeter Academy ; Wicks had offered him the job of instituting a new, full-time religion department at Exeter.

The discovery of the first flexagon, a trihexaflexagon, is credited to the British student Arthur H. Stone who was studying at Princeton University in the USA in 1939, allegedly while he was playing with the strips he had cut off his foolscap paper to convert it to letter size.

He was awarded a varsity letter in football five times ; combined with the three letters he earned in hockey, his total was the most that could be earned at Princeton at the time.

The Hessian commander, to emphasize the danger to his men, sent 100 infantry and an artillery detachment to deliver a letter to the British commander at Princeton.

It is interesting to note that for 25 years following the introduction in 1865 of the letter, it was the practice for the team captain to allow certain players who played in the most important games ( Yale or Princeton ) to keep the ' H ' jerseys as an award.

Sam finds out the truth that she was accepted by Princeton after her acceptance letter was found in the garbage by Gabriella.

It is known that Clemson ’ s older brother, who had recently graduated from Princeton, had sent Thomas a letter outlining the courses and subjects that he should study.

The award is named in honor of the late Patty Kazmaier-Sandt, a four-year varsity letter winner and All Ivy League honoree for the Princeton University women's ice hockey team from 1981 through 1986.

( A letter was recently discovered among Jefferson's papers being catalogued at Princeton University ; in that 1792 note, TJ writes, "... stopped at friend Fitzhugh's in Fredericksburg ..." He appeared to have been traveling between the new Capital City in Philadelphia and Monticello.

He graduated from Princeton in 1926 with a varsity letter in pistol and an Reserve Officers ' Training Corps ( ROTC ) commission, and was called to duty in World War II as a reservist.