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

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.

On 16 May 1545, Xavier wrote to the King of Portugal to establish the Inquisition in Goa: " The second necessity for the Christians is that Your Majesty establish the Holy Inquisition in Goa because there are many who live according to the Jewish Law and according to the Mohammedan Sect, without any fear of God or shame of the World.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

" ( John 3: 16 – 17, NIV ) John also wrote, " Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God.

At the age of 16, Steiner wrote and conducted the operetta The Beautiful Greek Girl.

In a famous letter to Leopold von Gerlach, Bismarck wrote that it was foolish to play chess having first put 16 of the 64 squares out of bounds.

Carl Friedrich Gauss considered the same question: " Ins Jahr 1792 oder 1793 ", according to his own recollection nearly sixty years later in a letter to Encke ( 1849 ), he wrote in his logarithm table ( he was then 15 or 16 ) the short note " Primzahlen unter ".

On 16 August he wrote that:

Gladstone wrote on 16 July 1892 in his autobiographica that " In 1834 the Government ... did themselves high honour by the new Poor Law Act, which rescued the English peasantry from the total loss of their independence ".

Williams wrote his diaries from the age of 14 in 1940 until his death 48 years later, although the earliest to survive to publication was for 1942 when he reached 16.

Wagner wrote of his preoccupations with Schopenhauer and Tristan in a letter to Franz Liszt ( December 16, 1854 ): Never in my life having enjoyed the true happiness of love I shall erect a memorial to this loveliest of all dreams in which, from the first to the last, love shall, for once, find utter repletion.

He wrote to one of Thatcher's supporters, Norman Tebbit, on 16 November telling, him Thatcher was entitled to use his name and his support in any way she saw fit.

Most often choirs consist of four sections intended to sing in four part harmony, but there is no limit to the number of possible parts as long as there is a singer available to sing the part: Thomas Tallis wrote a 40-part motet entitled Spem in alium, for eight choirs of five parts each ; Krzysztof Penderecki's Stabat Mater is for three choirs of 16 voices each, a total of 48 parts.

On 16 May Haig wrote that he had divided the Flanders operation into two phases, one to take Messines Ridge and the main attack several weeks later.

In The Sunday Times for 16 February 1969, Paul Jennings wrote of him: " If I ever knew a gentleman, it was Kenneth Horne.

During 1915 – 16, he taught philosophy at Harvard, then worked as an engineer for General Electric and wrote for the Encyclopedia Americana.

" She pines without work ," wrote her fellow nurse Valentina Chebotareva after receiving a letter from Tatiana on 16 April 1917.

McFarlane wrote and illustrated Spider-Mans first 14 issues, as well as # 16 ; many issues of which were crossovers with characters such as Wolverine, X-Force, and Ghost Rider.

In the 2008 presidential election 59. 77 percent of Umatilla County voters voted for Republican John McCain, while 37. 16 percent voted for Democrat Barack Obama and 3. 07 percent of voters either voted for a Third Party candidate or wrote in a candidate.

On 16 Nov 1792, " Red Banks " resident Robert Simpson wrote to Colonel Alexander D. Orr in Lexington, requesting help to appoint a magistrate in Red Banks, as he believed that some of its 30 families were of dubious character and engaged in criminal activities, creating the need for a justice system.

* John Field: originator of the piano nocturne, wrote 16 of them

His next Vertigo project-the post-apocalyptic series Deadenders ( 2000 – 01 )-ran for 16 issues while Brubaker wrote for both Batman and Detective Comics for parent-company DC.

Debussy, in a review of Delius's Two Danish Songs for soprano and orchestra given in a concert on 16 March 1901, wrote: " They are very sweet, very pale-music to soothe convalescents in well-to-do neighbourhoods ".

He wrote a mainstream novel that was set in Communist China, The Violent Man ( 1962 ); he said that to research this book he had read 100 books about China.

" Karpov acknowledged that his understanding of chess theory was very confused at that time, and wrote later that the homework which Botvinnik assigned greatly helped him, since it required that he consult chess books and work diligently.

He wrote a number of books and papers two of which are of immense importance namely ( 1 ). India in Transition, about the prepartition politics of India and ( 2 ). World Enough & Time-The Memoirs of Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah, Aga Khan III, his autobiography.

When the press expanded to current titles, they wrote some books themselves and employed other writers, including Erasmus.

He spent a great deal of time working on these books, which he tells us he gradually wrote through the many stressful times of his reign to refresh his mind.

Anaximenes wrote a history of Greece in twelve books, stretching from the gods ' origins to the death of Epaminondas at the Battle of Mantinea ( Hellenica, ), and a history of Philip of Macedon ( Philippica ).

He also wrote several books on the history of Number Theory.

He wrote three books on chess strategy: Mein System ( My System ), 1925, Die Praxis meines Systems ( The Practice of My System ), 1929, commonly known as Chess Praxis, and Die Blockade ( The Blockade ), 1925, though much in the latter book is generally held to be a rehash of material already presented in Mein System.

Frank Muir wrote a series of children's books about an Afghan puppy called " What-a-mess ".

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

In February 1903, two followers of Muhammad ` Alí, including Badi ' u ' llah and Siyyid ` Aliy-i-Afnan, broke with Muhammad ` Ali and wrote books and letters giving details of Muhammad ` Ali's plots and noting that what was circulating about ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was fabrication.

She wrote at least three autobiographical books about adapting to blindness.

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

He is specifically mentioned by Ben Sirah ( a writer of the Hellenistic period who listed the " great sages " of Israel ) and 4 Maccabees ( 1st century CE ), and by the 1st century CE historian Josephus, says that the prophet wrote two books.

In 1981, nominee John Banville wrote a letter to The Guardian requesting that the prize be given to him so that he could use the money to buy every copy of the longlisted books in Ireland and donate them to libraries, " thus ensuring that the books not only are bought but also read — surely a unique occurrence.

Ley was best known for his writings on rocketry and related topics, but he was trained in paleontology, and wrote a number of books about animals.

She wrote the preface for On War and by 1834 had published several of his books.

He wrote daily instructions to his gardener, precise designs and layouts for plantings, and invoices for his floral purchases and his collection of botany books.

Thomas Malthus wrote two books, An essay on the principle of population, published in 1798, and Principles of political economy, published in 1820.

Cotton Mather wrote more than 450 books and pamphlets, and his ubiquitous literary works made him one of the most influential religious leaders in America.

Although Eusebius wrote of eight books of the work, only seven undoubtably survive.

During the 1840s, Lyell traveled to the United States and Canada, and wrote two popular travel-and-geology books: Travels in North America ( 1845 ) and A Second Visit to the United States ( 1849 ).

He taught psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison ( 1957 – 63 ), during which time he wrote one of his best-known books, On Becoming a Person ( 1961 ).