When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

* On Aristotle's Categories ( anonymous writer )

* On Aristotle's Prior Analytics I ( anonymous writer )

The Life of Ceolfrith, written in about 710, records that only two surviving monks were capable of singing the full offices ; one was Ceolfrith and the other a young boy, who according to the anonymous writer had been taught by Ceolfrith and was " now a priest of the same monastery ".

Norman W. Porteous was one of the first to postulate that an anonymous writer wrote the book during the persecution under Antiochus.

According to this theory, the anonymous author attributed these events to Daniel, as prophecies that were witnessed by this writer in the 2nd century BCE.

In 1833, an anonymous English-language writer wrote a poetic defence of Captain Nicholas Nicholls, who had been sentenced to death in London for sodomy:

* 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes " African Slavery in America ", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

Bart D. Ehrman referred to a work by an early anonymous Christian writer ( perhaps Hippolytus, a Christian leader in Rome around 200 AD ) who in a commentary on the Old Testament book Song of Songs, wrote that Jesus first appeared to the women at the tomb.

This theory is confirmed in the text itself when the author seems to contrast himself with Solomon " Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon ... My vinyard, my very own, is for myself " ( 8. 11-12 ) It was common practice in ancient times for an anonymous writer seeking recognition for his work to write eponymously in the name of someone more famous.

In 193, an anonymous writer found the church at Ancyra in Galatia torn in two, and opposed the " false prophecy " there.

After Valentino challenged the Tribunes anonymous writer to a boxing match, the New York Evening Journal boxing writer, Frank O ' Neill, volunteered to fight in his place.

It is logical to infer that Shakespeare had special intentions with Cordelia ’ s death, as he was the only writer to have Cordelia killed ( in the version by the anonymous author, she continues to live happily, and in Holinshed ’ s, she restores her father and succeeds him ).

In 1853 it published an anonymous and unfavourable review of Charles Dickens ’ Bleak House, later revealed to be by George Brimley, typical of the paper's enduring contempt for him as a ‘ popular ’ writer " amusing the idle hours of the greatest number of readers ; not, we may hope, without improvement to their hearts, but certainly without profoundly affecting their intellects or deeply stirring their emotions.

The birds of the coast are well worth observing: in 1935 an anonymous writer mentions Willapark as the scene of spectacular flocks of seabirds ( eight species ); inland he describes the crows ( including the Cornish chough and the raven ) and falcons which frequent the district.

The anonymous writer described the terrain the party was crossing: " No country that I have ever heard of bears any resemblance to it ; it seems like a vast sea filled with grass and green trees, and expressly intended as a retreat for the rascally Indian, from which the white man would never seek to drive them ".

Thus for instance, ' if in a face-to-face relationship with a friend I discuss a magazine article dealing with the attitude of the President and Congress toward ... China ... I am in a relationship not only with the perhaps anonymous contemporary writer of the article but also with the contemporary individual or collective actors on the social scene designated by the terms " President ", " Congress ", " China "'.

This deftness of touch was not unrecognized in his own day ; one anonymous obituary writer opined: " Such, however, was the effect of his genius that when he was the happiest man, he will be least remembered ; so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken ".

The second part of the poem was long believed to be lost, but fragments of it have been identified in the anonymous Diálogos de la monteria, first printed in 1890 ; the Diálogos also embody fragments of a poem by Barahona entitled Los Principios del mundo, and many graceful lyrics by the same writer have been published by Francisco Rodríguez Marín.

The writer is anonymous and probably a Christian ", although not if, as is often suggested, he is Aelius Donatus.

Blue was supported by an anonymous writer in 1936 as the second day of the week, but he stated that red was the first day of the week.

George Ryan, a writer highly critical of Brudenell, acknowledged his generosity towards his officers and men when in hardship and noted him to be a regular, anonymous subscriber to many civic charities.

A civilian eyewitness ( the anonymous writer of A Brief Narrative of the Ravages of the British and Hessians at Princeton in 1776 – 1777 ) wrote that 24 British soldiers were found dead on the field.

), by an anonymous writer, called The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea ( 八仙過海 bā xiān guò hǎi ).

( see Minchas Yaakov and anonymous commentary in the Siddur Beis Yaakov on the Sabbath hymn of Askinu Seudasa, composed by the Arizal based on this lofty concept of the Zohar ).

Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951 – 52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century " Lyke-wake Dirge " as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer ( 1961 ) as " a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra ".

It was adapted and modified throughout the Middle Ages, including an influential Latin prose version Historia Caroli Magni ( also known as the Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle ), which also includes Roland's battle with a Saracen giant named Ferracutus who is only vulnerable at his navel ( the story was later adapted in the anonymous Franco-Venetian epic L ' Entrée d ' Espagne ( c. 1320 ) and in the 14th century Italian epic La Spagna ( attributed to the Florentine Sostegno di Zanobi and likely composed between 1350 – 1360 ).

He appears as a character in the opera, composed by Daniel Auber to a libretto by Eugène Scribe, and has the title-role in the opera Farinelli by the English composer John Barnett, first performed at Drury Lane in 1839, where his part is, oddly, written for a tenor ( this work is itself an adaptation of the anonymous, premiered in Paris in 1835 ).

An anonymous poet composed for him A Funerall Elegye on the Death of the famous Actor Richard Burbage who died on Saturday in Lent the 13 of March 1619, an excerpt of which reads:

In the poem Armes Prydain, composed in the early to mid-tenth century AD, the anonymous author prophesises that the Cymry ( the Welsh people ) will unite and join an alliance of fellow-Celts to repel the Anglo-Saxons, under the banner of St David: A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant ( And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi ).

The skald was a member of a group of poets, whose courtly poetry () is associated with the courts of Scandinavian and Icelandic leaders during the Viking Age, who composed and performed renditions of aspects of what we now characterise as Old Norse poetry ( the complementary aspect being the anonymous Eddaic poetry ).

The noteworthy exception is the Book of Jonah, an anonymous work containing no prophetic oracles, probably composed in the Hellenistic period ( 332 BCE – 167 BCE ).

The most notable work is Piruç myò doç inculurit ( which means " My sweet, coloured pear "), composed by an anonymous author from Cividale, probably in 1380.

There are sixteen extant lyrics of Arnaut Daniel ; there is music for at least one of them, but it was composed at least a century after the poet's death by an anonymous author.

The Island of Al-Andalus is mentioned in an anonymous Arabic chronicle of the conquest of Iberia composed two to three centuries after the fact.

King John I wrote a book of the chase, his sons, King Duarte and D. Pedro, composed moral treatises, and an anonymous scribe told with charming naïveté the story of the heroic Nuno Alvares Pereira in the Chronica do Condestavel.

The commission was composed of five open members and several anonymous ones, including a few psychiatrists who, at great danger to themselves, conducted their own independent examinations of cases of alleged psychiatric abuse.

The Cantino map contains evident corrections, made either in the course of 1501-02, while it was being composed by the anonymous Portuguese cartographer, or shortly after it was delivered in November 1502, possibly by an unknown Italian draftsman.

Saudade, as well as love suffering, is a common theme in many villancicos and cantigas composed by Portuguese authors ; for example: " Lágrimas de Saudade " ( tears of saudade ), which is an anonymous work from the Cancioneiro de Paris.

# An anonymous collection of sixty Mary Legends composed c. 1250 ( Brit.

Menumorut's name ( as he was called by the Hungarians because he had concubines ) is composed of two parts: its first part ( menu ) may have originated either from the Hungarian word for stallion ( as the anonymous writer of the Gesta suggests ) or from the Bulgar-Turkic word meaning “ great ” ( men ); his name ’ s second part ( morut ) is the ancient Hungarian name of the Moravians.

The new poetic ( as well as musical: some of the earliest medieval music has lyrics composed in Old French by the earliest composers known by name ) tendencies are apparent in the Roman de Fauvel in 1310 and 1314, a satire on abuses in the medieval church filled with medieval motets, lais, rondeaux and other new secular forms of poetry and music ( mostly anonymous, but with several pieces by Philippe de Vitry who would coin the expression Ars nova art, or new technique to distinguish the new musical practice from the music of the immediately preceding age ).

Poem on the Evil Times of Edward II, also known as The Simonie and Symonie and Couetise, is a Middle English poem in three distinct versions probably composed and modified over a century by anonymous authors.

The original " long version ", called Tractatus ( or Speculum ) artis bene moriendi, was composed in 1415 by an anonymous Dominican friar, probably at the request of the Council of Constance ( 1414 – 1418, Germany ).

The name " Other Minds " has been attributed by Jim Newman to an anonymous obituary that ran in the New Yorker in 1992 which stated that John Cage "... composed music in other people's minds.

A Vita of Desiderius has been composed around the late 8th century by an anonymous author, possibly a monk from Saint-Géry near Cahors, written on the basis of older documents.

Kekaumenos () is the family name of the otherwise anonymous Byzantine author of the Strategikon, a manual on military and household affairs composed c. 1078.

The new poetic ( as well as musical: some of the earliest medieval music has lyrics composed in Old French by the earliest composers known by name ) tendencies are apparent in the Roman de Fauvel in 1310 and 1314, a satire on abuses in the medieval church filled with medieval motets, lais, rondeaux and other new secular forms of poetry and music ( mostly anonymous, but with several pieces by Philippe de Vitry who would coin the expression Ars nova art, or new technique to distinguish the new musical practice from the music of the immediately preceding age ).