Republican editor Horace Greeley of the highly influential New York Tribune fell for the ploy, and Lincoln refuted it directly in a shrewd letter of August 22, 1862.

* 1754 – Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.

* January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.

Horace Walpole saw Brown's maturing scheme in 1751 and remarked in a letter: " The castle is enchanting.

Madame du Deffand is said by Horace Walpole ( in a letter to Thomas Gray ) to have been for a short time the mistress of the regent, the duke of Orléans.

Later, in a letter of December of that same year, Horace Walpole mentions the Count St. Germain as being arrested in London on suspicion of espionage ( this was during the Jacobite rebellion ) but released without charge:

The changing of the first letter " s " to " c " is attributed to Horace Bénédict de Saussure, who thought that the word was related to a deer ( French: cerf and Italian: cervo ).

Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet, a British resident in Florence, recalled in a letter that " The common people are convinced she went off in a hurricane of wind ; a most violent one began this morning and lasted for about two hours, and now the sun shines as bright as ever ..." The royal line of the House of Medici went extinct with her death.

The first known mention of the term in writing was made by Horace Walpole, in a letter of 1761 to Sir Horace Mann: " Do you know what a Bull and a Bear and Lame Duck are?

The malicious caricature of Sporus does Hervey great injustice, and he is not much better treated by Horace Walpole, who in reporting his death in a letter ( August 14, 1743 ) to Horace Mann, said he had outlived his last inch of character.

* SIMPSON-BAIKIE, Brig Gen Sir Hugh Archie Dundas ( 1871-1924 ) ( manuscript letter to Simpson-Baikie from Gen Sir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien on adverse comments about Smith-Dorrien in 1914 John French, 1st Viscount of Ypres, 1920 and typescript letter from Professor Robert Clifford Walton concerning Smith-Dorrien, 1972 )

In a June 16, 1858 letter to his friend James S. Slaughter that was publicly circulated ( Horace Greeley referred to it as " The Scarlet Letter "), Yancey wrote:

On August 22, 1862, just a few weeks before signing the Proclamation and after he had already discussed a draft of it with his cabinet in July, he wrote a letter in response to an editorial by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune which had urged complete abolition.

The naive Gladys asks for " Mr. Horace Puh-feiffer ," pronouncing the letter P, and is humiliated by the receptionist, who corrects her pronunciation and tells her there is no Mr. Pfeiffer.

* In a second season episode of Gilligan's Island called " The Postman Cometh ", it is revealed that Mary Ann writes a daily letter to her boyfriend Horace ( who she later admits is a " real creep " and wasn't really her boyfriend at all, just a boy she hardly knew that she invented a romance with because Ginger had so many beaux and Mrs. Howell had her husband, so she wanted somebody to think that there was someone waiting for her back home ).

In a 1780 letter to David Dalrymple, Horace Walpole gave a lengthy description of Blackburne:

Currently, McDonalds has stated that their investigation of this issue has concluded, according to their response to Mann, and McDonalds Head of Customer Service has failed to respond to an open letter from Mann, dated 2012 August 17th.

In one notable incident, in the late 1930s, a letter from her to Hitler prevented Hedwig and Alfred Pringsheim ( whose daughter Katia was married to Thomas Mann ) from being arrested by the Gestapo.

Before the lordship of the Island was purchased by the British Crown in 1765 ( the Revestment ), the assent of the Lord of Mann to a Bill was signified by letter to the Governor.

Together with Albert Einstein and other celebrities, Mann was a signatory to a letter to the Urgent Call for Unity condemning the murder of Croatian scholar Dr Milan Šufflay on 18 February 1931.

In an open letter to Berlin SS leader Kurt Daluege, Adolf Hitler proclaimed SS Mann, deine Ehre heißt Treue!

In a letter dated 26 November 1741 Mann writes to Walpole:

In their letter Einstein and Mann hold the Yugoslav king Aleksandar explicitly responsible for the state terror over the Croats.

Sometime afterwards in an open letter to Daluege, Adolf Hitler proclaimed " SS Mann, deine Ehre heißt Treue!

On 16 August 1946 Mann, living in Pacific Palisades, California, received a letter from the British ambassador in Washington inquiring “ whether you put the words into Goethe ’ s mouth or whether they are an actual quotation from the latter ’ s works.

After Thompson came to London to live, he received a letter from Katie, which was dated February 8, 1897.

The Attorney General responded by letter dated July 19.

The letter, dated Feb. 22, was delivered to Premier Khrushchev in Novosibirsk, Siberia, on March 9.

" wrote Peter ( in a tone that can only be guessed ) in a letter dated 13 August 1710.

In a letter to R. B. Fuller Esq., dated 1 August 1913, McCormick described the circumstances that inspired him to write Advance Australia Fair:

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.

In a letter dated 18 February 2008, Castro announced that he would not accept the positions of president and commander in chief at the 24 February 2008 National Assembly meetings, saying " I will not aspire nor accept — I repeat I will not aspire or accept — the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief.

A letter from Queen Elizabeth ( later the Queen Mother ), dated 17 May 1947, showed " her decided lack of enthusiasm for the socialist government " and describes the British electorate as " poor people, so many half-educated and bemused " for electing Attlee over Winston Churchill, whom she saw as a war hero.

Pius IV sent the decrees to Mary, Queen of Scots, with a letter dated June 13, 1564, requesting her to publish them in Scotland, but she dared not do it in the face of John Knox and the Reformation.

One of the earliest references to couscous in France is in Brittany, in a letter dated January 12, 1699.

In one letter, dated 1983, Frances wrote:

The original full version of the letter, called Return of the Several Ministers dated June 15, 1692, and had already been reprinted in the fall 1692 in the final two pages of Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience.

In a letter to an individual dated 23 March 1975, the Universal House of Justice wrote:

It is in the form of a letter submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defending Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked.

In a letter dated 22 February 1500 to Oluf Stigsøn, King John describes the battle, but does not mention the loss of an important flag.

In a letter dated May 24, 1891, Frege thanked Husserl for sending him a copy of the Philosophy of Arithmetic and Husserl's review of Ernst Schröder's Vorlesungen über die Algebra der Logik.

If the letter is not considered to be an authentic part of the Pauline corpus it might be dated during the late 1st century, possibly as late as 80 AD.

The letter was written during this time in Ephesus, which is usually dated as being in the range of 53 to 57 AD.

In a letter to Moore ( dated 15 November 1932 ), he left the choice of pseudonym to him and to Gollancz.

In a letter dated 13 January 1997, the Department of State advised the other agencies of the Executive branch that it considered the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to be one area for political, economic, legal and other purposes.

In a letter, dated 1725 he described Glasnevin as " the receptacle for thieves and rogues.

Contarini in a letter to his friend Cardinal Reginald Pole ( dated 11 November 1538 ) says that his hopes had been wakened anew by the pope's attitude.

Merriam-Webster, publishers of the leading American dictionaries, first heard of this puzzle in a letter dated March 17, 1975, from Patricia Lasker of Brooklyn, New York.

In a letter to Conrad Schmidt dated August 5, 1890, he stated that " And if this man ( i. e., Paul Barth ) has not yet discovered that while the material mode of existence is the primum agens this does not preclude the ideological spheres from reacting upon it in their turn, though with a secondary effect, he cannot possibly have understood the subject he is writing about.