So wrote a ten year old student in a letter to his parents from North Country School, Lake Placid, New York.

The high price was likely due to the rare documents and packaging offered in the sale in addition to the computer, including the original packaging ( with the return label showing Steve Jobs ' parents ' address, the original Apple Computer Inc ' headquarters ' being their garage ), a personally typed and signed letter from Jobs ( answering technical questions about the computer ), and the original invoice showing ' Steven ' as the salesman.

In 1376, Wycliffe received a letter from his parents recommending him to join a different university, but he denied the offer.

This text is taken from a letter written by Patty Hearst to her parents when she was kidnapped.

The disaster had brought her very close to " Nixa's " parents, and she received a letter from Alexander II in which the Emperor attempted to console her.

A letter written by St. Gregory the Great to the abbot of St. Hermes in Palermo mentions an Agatho, a Greek born in Sicily to wealthy parents.

They meet again the next day for breakfast and Travis becomes obsessed with helping her return to her parents ' home, sending her money to do so and a letter in which he states he will soon be dead.

Recuperating, Travis receives a letter from Iris's parents who thank him for saving her and the media hail him as a hero.

* March 20 – Richard Frethorne begins writing a letter to his parents from Jamestown, Virginia.

After Neville Chamberlain's first visit to Adolf Hitler at Berchtesgaden, Powell wrote in a letter to his parents of 18 September 1938:

In another letter to his parents in June 1939, before the beginning of war, Powell wrote: " It is the English, not their Government ; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors ".

The headmaster informed Beiderbecke's parents by letter that following his expulsion school officials confirmed that Beiderbecke " was drinking himself and was responsible, in part at least, in having liquor brought into the School.

Student James Dean, in a letter home to his parents, writes that Actors Studio was " the greatest school of the theater the best thing that can happen to an actor ".

Although not formally a member of the Universalist Church of America, in a 1905 letter to the widow of Carl Norman Thrasher, she identified herself with her parents ' church as a " Universalist ”.

* In a Mad episode, on a skit of Dear Reaper, it is occurred to the Grim Reaper that Joey, the boy who sent the Reaper a letter asking what to buy for Joey's parents ' anniversary, will die on November 14, 2071.

Wiener wrote in a letter to his parents, " I should consider myself a pretty cheap kind of a swine if I were willing to be an officer but unwilling to be a soldier ".

As such — and in keeping with Jewish doctrine " the letter bearer should fulfill its contents " — the Baal Shem Tov became a teacher ’ s assistant — and with unconditional love he tried to install honor for their parents, a love of God, and fellow beings in these children.

Dave Kane and Joanne O ' Neill, parents of youngest victim Nicholas O ' Neill, released their letter to the board to reporters.

Part of the official letter to his parents read: " Your son's funeral took place at Scopwick Cemetery, near Digby Aerodrome, at 2: 30 P. M. on Saturday, 13 December 1941, the service being conducted by Flight Lieutenant S. K. Belton, the Canadian padre of this Station.

Magee enclosed the poem on the back of a letter to his parents.

Dwight Eisenhower lined up with his parents at the 1904 Kansas State Fair to see him, and Harry Truman recalled that as a boy he had written a fan letter to the horse.

That letter, written in February, referenced seven small dolls which the writer stated would be altered to look as though they were " sevel real Chinese dolls ", designed to mimic a family of parents, grandparents and three children.

In a letter to his parents from prison, Rudolph has written, " Many good people continue to send me money and books.

A letter from Dennis Heraghty of Letterkenny in 1886 to the Society for the Preservation of the Irish Language complained that the parents in his area all wanted their children to learn English.

In 1997, the three surviving sisters wrote an open letter to the parents of the McCaughey septuplets, warning against allowing too much publicity for the children.

* On 18 March, the King ( now formally the lieutenant ) issued the decrees together with a letter in which he anticipated his intention of abdicating in favor of his son Umberto II ( who was named lieutenant general ); the date for abdication being the anniversary of the Allied forces ’ entry into Rome.

* According to a letter written by Maddox in 1999, Maddox " left the Office of Governor with a favorable poll rating of above 84 percent and won the Office of Lieutenant Governor in a landslide vote of more than 73 percent, which remains the greatest percentage of votes for any governor or lieutenant governor against a Republican opponent in a Georgia general election ".

Only two governors have became incapacitated during their terms, and current precedent is that the governor's office is to notify the lieutenant governor, who will then make the decision to become acting-governor by notifying the General Assembly by letter.

However, in sending his letter and his trusted lieutenant Ivan Kolzo to Ivan the Terrible, Ermac transformed the image of the Cossack overnight from a bandit to a soldier recognized by the Tsar of Moscow.

Pickersgill's daughter, in an 1876 letter to Georgiana Armistead Appleton, the daughter of Major Armistead ( later breveted a lieutenant colonel ), wrote these particulars about the flag:

Shortly after this action a lieutenant in the South Staffordshire Regiment, Norman Durant, wrote a compelling description of Calvert in a letter to his parents: His hair flops over his forehead, and he has a disconcerting habit of staring at you when you speak to him and yet not appearing to hear a word.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

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.

General AAK Niazi, the last unified commander of Pakistan Armed Forces, signed the surrender letter.

Compounding the disaster at El Mreir, at 08: 00 the commander of 23rd Armoured Brigade ordered his brigade forward, intent on following his orders to the letter.

Washington delivered the letter to the local French commander, who politely refused to leave.

San Marino's hope to escape further involvement was shattered on 27 July 1944 when Major Gunther, commander of the German forces in Forlì, delivered a letter from German headquarters in Ferrara to San Marino's government declaring that the country's sovereignty could not be respected if, in view of military requirements, the necessity of transit of troops and vehicles arose.

On 9 December, Slovik wrote a letter to the Supreme Allied commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, pleading for clemency.

It is probable that in December 1753, George Washington, accompanied by Christopher Gist, pushed his way across Fox Chapel land as he came south from Fort Le Boeuf where he had delivered a letter to the French commander, ordering him, in the name of the Governor of Virginia, to return to Canada.

On November 3, 1861, from Cairo, Illinois, Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant wrote a letter to Colonel Richard J. Oglesby, commander of the Union Headquarters District Southeast Missouri at Bird ’ s Point, ordering his troops to " strike for Sikeston " from the Mississippi River town of Commerce.

On April 20, 1793, the French military commander and former minister of war General Charles François Dumouriez defected to Austria following the publication of an incendiary letter in which he threatened to march his army on the city of Paris if the National Convention did not accede to his leadership.

Former Pine Ridge Indian agent Valentine T. Mcgillycuddy was asked his opinion of the ' hostilities ' surrounding the Ghost Dance movement by General Leonard W. Colby commander of the Nebraska National Guard ( portion of letter dated Jan. 15, 1891 ):

However, in April 1916 when Nathan showed him a letter from the army commander in the south of Ireland telling of an expected landing of arms on the southwest coast and a rising planned for Easter, they were both ' doubtful whether there was any foundation for the rumour '.

The Hessian commander, to emphasize the danger to his men, sent 100 infantry and an artillery detachment to deliver a letter to the British commander at Princeton.

The brigade was hit hard by the Confederate attack of June 26 at the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek, but their defensive line held and Reynolds later received a letter of commendation from his division commander, Brig.

On the morning of March 6, the Convention received a letter, dated March 3, from Alamo commander William B. Travis.

Evidence includes a letter dated August 26, 1943 to local Polish self-defence where AK commander Kazimierz Bąbiński criticized the burning of neighboring Ukrainian villages, killing any Ukrainian that crosses their path, and robbing Ukrainians of their material possessions.

On July 13, 1888, Eastern Karenni chief Sawpja Sao Lapaw wrote a letter to the British commander asking him to withdraw his troops from Mauk Mai.

On December 14, 1937, Rabe handed a letter of thanks to the Japanese army commander stating that the people in the Safety Zone were all safe and not one shot had been fired.

The main document was a personal letter from " Archie Nye " ( Lt. Gen. Sir Archibald Nye, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff ) to " My dear Alex " ( General Sir Harold Alexander, commander of 18th Army Group in Algeria and Tunisia ).

The letter covered several " sensitive " subjects, such as the ( unwanted ) award of Purple Heart medals by U. S. forces to British servicemen serving with them, and the appointment of a new commander of the Guards Brigade.

There was also a letter of introduction for Major Martin from his putative commanding officer, Admiral Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, to Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet and Allied naval commander in the Mediterranean.

To justify carrying documents in a briefcase, " Major Martin " was given two copies of the official pamphlet on Combined Operations by Hilary Saunders, and a letter from Mountbatten to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of the Allied Force and the senior allied commander in Europe and the Mediterranean, asking him to write a brief foreword for the pamphlet's U. S. edition.

The micro-managing king probably wanted a commander who would obey his instructions to the letter, which was less likely to happen if Santa Cruz was in command, or either of the most experienced officers in the Armada, Juan Martinez de Recalde and Miguel de Oquendo.

Later Nelson wrote a letter saying, " I could have formed no opinion of Orion that was not favourable to her gallant and excellent commander ( Saumarez ) and crew ".