Abbadie's income as dean of Killaloe was so small that he could not afford a literary amanuensis ; and Hugh Boulter, archbishop of Armagh, having appealed in vain to Lord Carteret, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Abbadie's behalf, gave him a letter of introduction to Dr. Edmund Gibson, bishop of London, and Abbadie left Ireland.

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.

In Oswald's pocket, Edgar finds a letter from Goneril to Edmund, telling him to kill Albany and marry her.

In a letter to a friend on 24 December 1807, Palmerston described the late Whig MP Edmund Burke as possessing " the palm of political prophecy ".

* 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.

* 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 M. Immerito ( Edmund Spenser ) he says that Edward Dyer and Philip Sidney were helping forward " our new famous enterprise for the exchanging of Barbarous and Balductum Rymes with Artificial Verses.

In the same issue, the letter column contained a " special announcement " explaining that the change in the characterization of Brainiac was being made " in deference " to the " Brainiac Computer Kit ", a toy computer created by Edmund Berkeley which predated the creation of the comic book character.

Shortly after Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Pope wrote a letter to Edmund Kirby-Smith offering the Confederates in Louisiana the same surrender terms that Grant allowed for Lee.

The letter had been faked by Edmund de Ath, actually Édouard de Gex in disguise, who had been working with Vrej, one of the Cabal members, who believed his family had been wronged by Jack.

She is first seen at the beginning of the film writing a letter to Edmund and Lucy.

Popplewell again reprised the role in the 2010 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader for two scenes: one, in which Susan is seen in America writing a letter to Edmund and Lucy, and another in which Lucy, by reciting a stolen spell, has literally become Susan.

Loeb is best remembered nationally for his alleged role in attacking Edmund Muskie through the Union Leader in what is known locally as the Canuck letter, derailing the Maine senator's 1972 presidential bid.

At a personal level Edmund Burke described Ponsonby in a letter to Lord Charlemont as " a manly, decided character, with ... a clear and vigorous understanding.

Hardy wrote in a letter to Edmund Gosse on Dec. 10, 1882, “ I get most extraordinary criticisms of T. on a T. Eminent critics write & tell me in private that it is the most original thing I have done ... while other eminent critics ( I wonder if they are the same ) print the most cutting rebukes you can conceive -- show me ( to my amazement ) that I am quite an immoral person ...”

Jefferson's successor Edmund Randolph, who actually received Shelby's letter, wrote Shelby to inform him of the new powers at his disposal, and informing him that the new regime in France had recalled Genêt.

In a letter to Edmund Wilson, she detailed a raucous affair that she and the yet-unpublished Roethke carried on in 1935, during the time between his expulsion from Lafayette College and his return to Michigan.

No record of the creation has been preserved ; Edmund and his older brother Edward signed a letter to their father on June 14, 1454 as " E. Rutland " and " E. Marche ".

When Richard Burke wrote to Fitzwilliam on 29 July 1790 to persuade him to turn Fox against Sheridan ( who had split from Edmund Burke in February ), Fitzwilliam replied on 8 August that he agreed that " the propriety of entering a caveat against the enthusiasm, or the ambition of any man whatever leading us into the trammels of Dr Price, Parson Horne, or any reverend or irreverend speculator in politics " but Fitzwilliam's letter to Fox did not change his behaviour.

Edmund Burke was deeply upset by this letter and brought forth from Burke a " severe remonstrance " to Fitzwilliam " which affected Lord Fitzwilliam so much that he kept to his bed, and was actually ill for several days.

The Canuck letter was a ploy used to try to disrupt the presidential campaign of Edmund Muskie, who was viewed by many senior Republicans as Nixon's most dangerous potential opponent for the 1972 presidential race.

Emma tells the police that she has received a letter claiming to be from Martine, a French girl whom her brother Edmund had wanted to marry.

The letter purporting to be from Martine claims that she was pregnant when Edmund died and that she now wishes their son to have all of the advantages to which his parentage should entitle him.

" In disgust, Blackstone forced the university to confront its responsibilities by publishing a lengthy letter he had written to Huddesford's successor, Thomas Randolph in May 1757.

" On February 9, 1898, the letter was published in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.

A few days later Washington, in the presence of the entire cabinet, handed the minister's letter to Randolph and demanded he explain it.

The enforcement of the Navigation Acts was conducted by Dudley and Randolph, although they did not adhere to the letter of the laws.

In recent years, some government agencies have taken steps to thwart the spirit and letter of the Randolph-Sheppard Act, thus decreasing its effectiveness and limiting the opportunities for blind merchants originally envisioned by Congressman Randolph, Senator Shepphard and the National Federation of the Blind.

Obscure scholar Roland Michell, researching in the London Library, discovers handwritten drafts of a letter by the prestigious ( fictional ) Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash, which leads him to suspect that the married Ash had a hitherto unknown romance.

Further the Spanish-American War, which many Catholics opposed, was often blamed on William Randolph Hearst's newspapers and had occurred a year before the letter.

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:

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

Alpha ( uppercase Α, lowercase α ; Álpha ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

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

The first nine probably date from the 3rd century BC, they are usually included among the Cynic epistles, and reflect how the Cynic philosophers viewed him as prefiguring many of their ideas ; the tenth letter is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, it is addressed to Croesus, the proverbially rich king of Lydia, it too is fictitious:

The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.

The first level of the code indicates the anatomical main group and consists of one letter.

* A ( Cyrillic ), the first letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

St Cyril of Alexandria, 370-444, In the first letter says: " Athanasius is one who can be trusted: he would not say anything that is not in accord with sacred scripture.

The Beowulf manuscript itself is mentioned in name for the first time in a letter in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley ’ s assistant, and Wanley.

The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

The first four poems ( chapters ) are acrostics, like some of the Psalms ( 25, 34, 37, 119 ), i. e., each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order.

The theory was first published in April 1957 in the letter, " Microscopic theory of superconductivity ".

The idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society:

The first recorded use of the term is in a 1964 letter by Anne Ewing to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Tomislav was the first ruler of Croatia who was styled a king in a letter from the Pope John X, dating kingdom of Croatia to year 925.

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was “ not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you .” The good people died first.

The first letter of a chemical symbol is always capitalized, as in the preceding examples, and the subsequent letters, if any, are always lower case ( small letters ).