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Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.
And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.
nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.
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.
He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.
The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.
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 ''.
After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.
A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.
Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.
A fascinating letter has just reached this desk from a correspondent who likes to receive so-called junk mail.
John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.
Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.
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.
On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.
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.
So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.
I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.
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.
East River, downtown: postscript to a letter from Harlem
Both elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.
Rose Weiss, who handles all the prayer-requests that we receive, answering each letter personally, has the serene selflessness that comes from suffering: she has had many major operations, and now gets about in a limited way on braces and crutches.
His lawyer had sent him a statement on his overdue alimony, and there was a letter from the Collector of Internal Revenue asking him to stop in his office and explain last year's exemptions.
She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.
Tax worries, production worries, personnel worries, and the letter from Hanford College, his own alma mater, a real snapper.

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In a letter dated August 1, 1969, and addressed to the President of the Security Council, the Permanent Representative of Cambodia alleged to the United Nations Security Council that aircraft from the United States and South Vietnam scattered ‘ poisonous yellow powder ’ along its frontiers with South Vietnam in May and June.
The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.
PPM are most of the time referring to A4 paper in Europe and letter paper in the United States, resulting in a 5-10 % difference.
The United States Federal Geographic Data Committee uses a " barred capital C " character similar to the capital letter Ukrainian Ye ‹ Є › to represent the Cambrian Period.
The average age of the officers whose names were listed as signing the letter was 74, the oldest was 98, and Servicemembers United noted that " only a small fraction of these officers have even served in the military during the ' Don't Ask, Don't Tell ' period, much less in the 21st century military.
He made this claim in a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, at the Paris Peace Conference and at the First Session of the United Nations.
The United Bible Societies ' Greek New Testament divides the letter into the following sections:
Andrew Jackson issued a proclamation against the doctrine of nullification, stating: " I consider … the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology now recommends the use of the uppercase letter L, a practice that is also widely followed in Canada and Australia.
The last envelope and letter contained a round-trip airline ticket, first class, United.
Sanger's ally Upton Sinclair wrote an open letter of support for Sanger and her husband in The Masses and during her absence, a groundswell of support grew in the United States, and Margaret returned to the United States in October 1915.
On 19 July 2006, the prime minister, G. P. Koirala, sent a letter to the United Nations announcing the intention of the Nepalese government to hold elections to a constituent assembly by April 2007.
This letter, addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kosovo, reads as follows: “ In acknowledging the decision of the International Court of Justice on the independence of Kosovo, the Government of the Sultanate of Oman will welcome Kosovo ’ s membership to the United Nations, as well as to other international and regional organizations it wishes to join ”.
When the Ottoman Empire surrendered in 1918, the United Kingdom refused to keep to the letter of its arrangements with Hussein, and the two nations assumed guardianship of Mesapotamia, Lebanon, Palestine and what became modern Syria.
Although the Penny Black could be used to send a letter less than half an ounce anywhere within the United Kingdom, the Swiss did not initially adopt that system, instead continuing to calculate mail rates based on distance to be delivered.
In the United Kingdom the letter " O " was combined with the digit " 0 " rather than " 6 ".
In a letter dated February 23, 2011 to the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, the Attorney General of the United States stated " while sexual orientation carries no visible badge, a growing scientific consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable ".
In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.
The letter was returned to the United States by the postal services, where it was discovered and delivered to the FBI.
* October 11 – Manhattan Project: U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented a letter signed by Albert Einstein, urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
* December 24 – Russian SFSR President Boris Yeltsin sends a letter to UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, stating that Russia should be a successor to collapsing Soviet Union within the United Nations Organization.
* March 23 – Watergate scandal ( United States ): In a letter to Judge John Sirica, Watergate burglar James W. McCord Jr. admits that he and other defendants have been pressured to remain silent about the case.
" In the history of women in the military, there are records of female U. S. Revolutionary and Civil War soldiers who enlisted using male pseudonyms, but Oakley's letter represents possibly the earliest political move towards women's rights for combat service in the United States military.

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