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letter and Motte
Middleton let the matter drop after meeting Mead socially ; but two related works, an Appendix seu Definitiones, pars secunda and a letter from Middleton to another opponent, Charles La Motte, were later published in 1761 by William Heberden the elder.

letter and May
In May, 1803, Ritter, in another flight of fancy, wrote to Oersted a letter that contained a remarkable prophecy.
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.
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.
Depiction of the Crux ( labelled ' Las Guardas ') by physician-astronomer Mestre João Faras in his letter of May 1, 1500, to King Manuel I of Portugal from the newly discovered land of Brazil
Faras sketched and described the constellation ( calling it " Las Guardas ") in a letter written on the beaches of Brazil on May 1, 1500, to the Portuguese monarch.
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.
On May 25, 1780, Hopkinson wrote a letter to the Continental Board of Admiralty mentioning several patriotic designs he had completed during the previous three years.
He wrote a letter on 6 May — two days before German Instrument of Surrender — formally dismissing Himmler from all his posts.
Then the following month, on May 31st 1902, in a letter to William Blackwood, Conrad remarks:
Acknowledging the controversy, Paul VI in a letter to the Congress of German Catholics ( Aug. 30, 1968 ), stated: " May the lively debate aroused by our encyclical lead to a better knowledge of God ’ s will.
Last May, a gentleman residing in Edinburgh, personally unknown to me, who had long resided in India, favored me with a letter expressing his approbation of the views which I had published on the nature and causes of hypnotic and mesmeric phenomena.
The alphabet was last revised in May 2005 with the addition of a letter for a labiodental flap.
( His letter of resignation, sent from Cairo, Illinois, was accepted by the War Department on May 14.
The letter was published in the International Herald Tribune on 8 May 2008.
The thoughts expressed in Coleridge's letter date Kubla Khan to October 1797, but two alternatives have been postulated by Coleridge's biographers: May 1798 and October 1799.
On 3 May 2012, the Renault-Nissan alliance has signed letter of intent to raise its stake in Avtovaz to a majority by taking a majority share of 67. 13 % of a joint venture with the Russian state-controlled company, Russian Technologies, to own 74. 5 % of Avtovaz.
Knowing her death was imminent, May Belle Mitchell wrote her daughter a brief letter and advised her:
In May 1573, in a letter to Lord Burghley, two of Oxford's former employees accused three of Oxford's friends of attacking them on " the highway from Gravesend to Rochester.
The first documented definition of the word " cocktail " was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York.
After the new synodal letter of the African council of 1 May 418 to the pope, and after the steps taken by the emperor Honorius against the Pelagians, Zosimus issued his Tractoria, in which Pelagianism and its authors were finally condemned.
In January 2010, a previously unknown letter from Descartes, dated 27 May 1641, was found by the Dutch philosopher Erik-Jan Bos when browsing through Google.
Finally, to end the impasse, Shackleton agreed, in a letter to Scott dated 17 May 1907, to work to the east of the 170 ° W meridian and therefore to avoid all the familiar Discovery ground.
A letter preserved by Qalqashandi records that a twelfth son was born in May 1178, while on Imad al-Din's list, he appears as Saladin's seventh son.
In a May letter, Darwin mentioned a print run of 2, 500 copies, but it is not clear if this referred to the first printing only as there were four that year.
On 30 October 2009, May wrote a fanclub letter on his website stating that Queen had no intentions to tour in 2010 but that there was a possibility of a performance.

letter and 1736
The final resting place of John Porteous in Greyfriars kirkyard had for more than two hundred years been marked by a small square stone engraved with the single letter " P " and the date 1736.
For more than two hundred years the grave was marked by a small square stone with the single letter P and the date 1736.

letter and Swift
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.
Of business he was never fond, and the loss in 1734 of his trusted friend John Merrill, who had supplied the qualities which he lacked, was lamented by him in a letter to Jonathan Swift.
In August 2004 he and former Senator Max Cleland, along with several other veterans and members of the U. S. Senate, attempted to hand-deliver a letter to President George W. Bush, requesting that he condemn the Swift Boat group's TV ads.
The first of the three letters, Predictions for the Year 1708, published in January 1708, predicts, among other things, the death of Partridge by a “ raging fever .” The second letter, The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff ’ s Predictions, published in March 1708, Swift writes not as Bickerstaff but as a “ man employed in the Revenue ” where he “ confirms ” the imaginary Bickerstaff ’ s prediction.
Playing on Partridge's own ( generally inaccurate ) yearly predictions of deaths of notable individuals, Swift, writing under the pseudonym Isaac Bickerstaff, predicted in a letter published in January 1708 that Partridge himself would die an " infallible death " on March 29 of that year.
On that date, Swift published another letter ( purportedly by a " man employed in the Revenue ") confirming Partridge's death.
When Partridge published a letter proclaiming that he had not in fact died, Swift announced that his letter was false, as " they were sure no man alive ever to writ such damned stuff as this.
The painting depicts Esther holding a letter, presumably written to or from Swift.
In 1732 Sir Charles Wogan indicated in a letter to Dean Swift that 120, 000 Irishmen had been killed and wounded in foreign service " within these forty years ", with Swift later replying:
Pickens ' letter also challenged Kerry to agree to donate $ 1 million to the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation, if Kerry " cannot prove anything in the Swift Boat ads to be untrue.
On June 22, 2008, a group of Vietnam veterans who previously served with and now work with Kerry accepted the challenge and sent a 12-page letter — with a 42-page attachment of military records to support their case — to rebut several of the accusations of the Swift boat group.
Shortly afterwards, a copy of the first letter was forwarded by Swift to Lord Carteret on 28 April 1724, and knowledge of the letter's contents had spread all the way to London.
By April 1724, the letter was popular and Swift claimed that over 2, 000 copies had been sold in Dublin.
The subject matter of the third letter is similar to that of the second letter, and some scholars have explained this as a result of Swift being forced to respond so quickly to the Privy-council's report.
Throughout the letter, the Drapier pretends that Carteret's transfer to Ireland to enforce Wood's patent was a rumor produced by Wood's allies, although Swift had knowledge to the contrary.
Although there was a possible agreement between Carteret and Walpole over ending the patent, Swift found it necessary to publish this defence of the fourth letter to ensure that Walpole would not back down from his promise of removing the patent.
A letter written anonymously by Swift, " Seasonable Advice to the Grand-Jury ", motivated the Irish jury to stand up against Whitshed and release the printer.
The Drapier hints at the letter and the freeing of Harding when he lists many other works written by Jonathan Swift, and, in the process, nearly reveals his own identity.
The sixth letter during the Drapier's campaign, To the Lord Chancellor Middleton, is dated 26 October 1724, and was written as a private letter from Jonathan Swift to Alan Brodrick, Lord Midleton ( with the misspelling of his title ).
Sir Walter Scott includes this letter as number five, although Faulkner, Sheridan, Deane Swift, Hawkesworth and Nichols label it as number six.
Regardless, Swift wrote the letter to express himself in a way that the Drapier could not: as the dean of a great, Irish cathedral.

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