A fascinating letter has just reached this desk from a correspondent who likes to receive so-called junk mail.

He later sent a letter to Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, in which he wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, but it probably never reached the Emperor.

His reputation was not confined to Europe ; a Chinese mandarin sent him a letter addressed to " the illustrious Boerhaave, physician in Europe ," and it reached him in due course.

The third letter is extant, but no trace of an answer appears in St. Gregory's correspondence, owing probably to the fact that the pope died in 604, about the time it reached Rome.

A copy of this letter reached Constantinople where Nestorius preached a sermon against it.

The papal letter never reached Constantinople as the messengers were intercepted and arrested in Sicily by the Byzantines.

Historian Paul Nagel has noted that this letter reached Washington, and that parts of it were used by Washington when drafting his farewell address.

The SAOL has reached its 13th edition while the first volume of the SAOB was published in 1898 and today () work has progressed to words beginning with the letter " T ".

When the letter reached Rome, Donus had died, but his successor, Pope Agatho, agreed to the Emperor's suggestion and ordered councils held throughout the West so that legates could present the tradition of the Western Church.

The Queen Is Dead reached number two in the UK charts, and consisted of a mixture of mordant bleakness ( e. g. " Never Had No One Ever ", which seemed to play up to stereotypes of the band ), dry humour ( e. g. " Frankly, Mr. Shankly ", allegedly a message to Rough Trade boss Geoff Travis disguised as a letter of resignation from a worker to his superior ), and synthesis of both, such as in " There Is a Light That Never Goes Out " and " Cemetry Gates ".

The letter never reached its destination, however, as the son-in-law was killed by the Germans en route.

The bearers of the emperor's first letter at last reached Rome on 14 May.

According to a contemporary letter from Alcuin of York, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's court as one of his chief advisors, " the vengeance of the blood shed by the father has reached the son "; and Alcuin adds " This was not a strengthening of the kingdom, but its ruin.

Before Columbus even reached Isabella I of Castile, John II had already sent a letter to them threatening to send a fleet to claim it for Portugal.

: I received your letter, which is like many others that have reached me recently from your country and from other countries around the world.

:::" For they say that the course of human life resembles the letter Y, because every one of men, when he has reached the threshold of early youth, and has arrived at the place " where the way divides itself into two parts ," is in doubt, and hesitates, and does not know to which side he should rather turn himself.

The pope's letter shows no hint that news of Edwin's death had reached Rome, almost nine months after the supposed date of the battle.

The letter to Æthelburg makes it clear that she was already married at the time the news of Eadbald ’ s conversion reached Rome.

Before it reached him, Ruhnken wrote a kind letter to Wyttenbach, which the recipient " read, re-read and kissed ," and another on receipt of the tract, in which the great scholar declared that he had not expected to find in Germany such knowledge of Greek, such power of criticism, and such mature judgment, especially in one so young.

According to Stresemann's letter, there should be no settlement " until economic and financial distress has reached an extreme stage and reduced the entire Polish body politic to a state of powerlessness ".

Zosimus had become Pope by the time the letter reached Rome in 417.

Very quickly, Murdoch's letter reached Asquith, and was circulated to senior ministers of the British government.

The Chinese emperor reached out to Japan by sending a letter to the shogunate via the kingdom of the Ryūkyū Islands ; Yoshinori responded favorably.

Regarding final borders, the letter stated: " In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949, and all previous efforts to negotiate a two-state solution have reached the same conclusion.

The royal letter of 14 February 1861, which was written even before the Civil War started, took some time to arrive in Washington DC, and by the time it reached its destination, President Buchanan was not in office any longer.

At a February 2, 2010 congressional hearing, Senator John McCain read from a letter signed by " over one thousand former general and flag officers ".

During the 1972 presidential campaign, a letter was published that Smith had written to the Democratic U. S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, indicating Smith's full support for Muskie.

However, former Republican Congressman Paul " Pete " McCloskey, Jr., who served with Robertson in Korea, wrote a public letter which said that Robertson was actually spared combat duty when his powerful father, a U. S. Senator, intervened on his behalf, and that Robertson spent most of his time in an office in Japan.

After a meeting at the Prime Minister's residence, The Lodge, Whitlam and three of his ministers ( Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Jim Cairns, Attorney-General Senator Lionel Murphy, and Minister for Minerals and Energy Rex Connor ) signed a letter of authority for Connor to borrow up to US $ 4 billion.

In a letter to Senator Jackson in September 1961 Bundy sought to define the early relationship sought with the State Department.

A letter from Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott to U. S. Senator Homer S. Ferguson was printed in The Mining Journal and reported more than 900 military personnel were to be stationed at K. I.

The previous highest successful bid on a single item for charity was for a letter sent to Mark P. Mays, CEO of Clear Channel ( parent company of Premiere Radio Networks the production company that produces The Rush Limbaugh Show and Glenn Beck Program ) by Senator Harry Reid and forty other Democratic senators, complaining about comments made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh.

As she called for the election of Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts and then U. S. Senator Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas as President and Vice President of the United States, Richards read a letter from an unnamed young mother in Lorena who described herself as " forgotten " by the national leadership.

Following Senator Proxmire ’ s letter, in 1989 the Federal Reserve Board approved Section 20 affiliates underwriting corporate debt securities and increased from 5 % to 10 % the percentage of its revenue a Section 20 affiliate could earn from “ bank-ineligible ” activities.

* During the 1972 U. S. presidential election, Donald H. Segretti, a political operative for President Richard Nixon's reelection campaign, released a faked letter, on Senator Edmund Muskie's letterhead, falsely alleging that Senator Henry " Scoop " Jackson, against whom Muskie was running for the Democratic Party's nomination, had had an illegitimate child with a seventeen-year-old.

In the 2010 bid by Tom Campbell for the Republican nomination for Senator of California, a dispute was triggered by a letter Campbell had written to USF's president in defense of Al-Arian on January 21, 2002.

On 3 August 2004, shortly before the settlement, Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican senator from Iowa, sent a letter to GSK, stating that he was concerned that " some drug companies " may not have provided the FDA with all the information at their disposal.

" GSK officials never commented on whether there was any connection between Senator Grassley's letter and their decision to pursue a settlement with the New York State attorney general's lawsuit.

As a resident of Arizona, he wrote a letter of endorsement for Arizona's Junior Senator, Jon Kyl, who won his bid for re-election in 2006.

* The Canuck letter became a focal point during the US 1972 Democratic primaries, when a letter published in the Manchester Union Leader implied Democratic contender Senator Edmund Muskie was prejudiced against French-Canadians.

In a letter to the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Senator Vivienne Poy suggested that public outrage over the Maclean's article, " defined as material that is denigrating to an identifiable group ," should deem it ineligible for government funding.

The Obama City Hall heard about the interview and the mayor, Toshio Murakami, sent Senator Obama a set of the city ’ s famous lacquer chopsticks, a DVD about the city and a letter wishing him the best.

On 15 September 2008, Abdullah's cabinet Minister in Prime Minister Department Senator Datuk Zaid Ibrahim submitted his resignation letter to the Prime Minister.

The letter proposed that the NFU purchase shares in the FSC, and stated that he, Senator Anand Singh, and United Consultancy of Auckland, New Zealand, were in talks with " an India-based milling company " to restructure the FSC.

The letter proposed that the NFU purchase shares in the FSC, and stated that he, FLP Senator Anand Singh, and United Consultancy of Auckland, New Zealand, were in talks with " an India-based milling company " to restructure the FSC.

The Act has been largely unenforced, despite a letter to the FTC from Senator Burns, who noted that " Enforcement is key regarding the CAN-SPAM legislation.

On June 28, the State Department provided a written letter of apology to Djondo and Senator Dodd released his hold on Green's nomination saying he was confident that Green " would be a welcome alternative to his predecessor.

In response to the two 2004 incidents, New York Senator Hillary Clinton and Congressman Tim Bishop wrote a letter to the Department of Homeland Security regarding their concerns about the center's safety: " We urge you to immediately investigate these alarming breaches at the highest levels, and to keep us apprised of all developments.