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.

In a letter to his cousin in 30 January 1921, Zhou said that his goals in Europe were to discover the social conditions in foreign countries and their methods of resolving social issues, for the purpose of later applying these lessons to China after his return.

In the same letter he told his cousin that, regarding his adoption of a specific ideology, " I still have to make up my mind.

In a letter to his cousin, Zhou identified two broad paths of reform for China: " gradual reform " ( as in England ) or " violent means " ( as in Russia ).

When Thatcher ’ s cousin from Inwood, California, showed him a letter with his home address on it, he decided to use the name “ Inwood ” for the town.

The queen had given Wilfrid a letter of introduction to pass to her cousin, King Eorcenberht, in order to ensure that Wilfrid was received by the king.

Her cousin Harriet ( by then Lady Granville ), with whom Lady Caroline's relationship had deteriorated after childhood, visited her in December 1816 and was so incredulous at her unrepentant behavior that she ended her description of the visit in a letter to her sister with: " I mean my visit to be annual.

Another reason the Islamic world flourished during the Middle Ages was an early emphasis on freedom of speech, as summarized by al-Hashimi ( a cousin of Caliph al-Ma ' mun ) in the following letter to one of the religious opponents he was attempting to convert through reason:

His wife described Green Spring in a letter to her cousin:

Two more recent writers say that the theory is supported by a letter that Hugues wrote from Palestine in 1103, in which he talked of writing to " my father in Nocera " to tell him of the death of his cousin Alessandro.

A more serious punishment was administered to Richard Reynolds, cousin to John Reynolds and another long-serving captain, who was court-martialled for sending Cardigan an " insubordinate " letter in response to being barred from his commanding officer's quarters.

The following year he was off to the Continent, carrying a letter of introduction to Benjamin Franklin, written by his mentor and distant cousin Dr. John Coakley Lettsome.

The queen was distrustful of the native-born aristocracy and wrote a letter to her cousin, Rothrud, Archbishop of Rouen, asking him to send one of her French relatives, on her mother's side, to help her govern.

His granduncle Dou Ying ( 竇嬰, Empress Dowager Dou's brother or cousin ) slipped in a knife pen, and he wrote a letter and then committed suicide.

He finally asserts this Byzantine ancestry based on a letter by Patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos discovered by byzantinists, in which he testifies that Emperor Leo VI of Byzantium, father of Constantine VII, had united his daughter to a Frank Prince, a cousin of Berta ( of Tuscia ), to whom came later a great misfortune.

However, the problem was invented by Daniel's cousin Nicolas Bernoulli who first stated it in a letter to Pierre Raymond de Montmort of September 9, 1713.

By 11 September that year, he referred to them in a letter to his cousin Oliver St. John as a " lovely company ".

The book takes the form of a letter to Hadrian's cousin and eventual successor " Mark " ( Marcus Aurelius ).

Shortly after Elizabeth Shippen, oldest sister of Peggy, became engaged to her first cousin Edward Burd ( m. Dec 1778 ) Benedict Arnold sent Peggy's father a letter asking for her hand.

The situation was aggravated by a letter Beatrice then received from her elder sister Victoria Melita (" Ducky "), in which Michael was blamed for having callously initiated the doomed romance ( when, a couple of years later Ducky, having divorced her first cousin Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, was told that re-marriage to another first cousin, Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich Romanov, would likewise be forbidden by the Tsar, she refused to take no for an answer ; the couple eloped into exile ).

In 1864, Andrew wrote a letter to his close friend and distant cousin President Abraham Lincoln describing a woman named Lydia Bixby who lost five sons in battle and asking Lincoln to express his condolences.

* Oral History Interview with General Louis W. Truman, President Truman's cousin, on the Eisenhower letter about Summersby.

On 30 December, l ' Avenir published a letter sent to its editor by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, the great-nephew of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and cousin of the then-ruling Emperor Napoleon III.

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.

John Jaques apparently claimed in a letter to Arthur Lillie in 1873 that he had himself seen the game played in Ireland and, " I made the implements and published directions ( such as they were ) before Mr Spratt above introduced the subject to me ".

Thenceforth all communication between the two happened by means of correspondence — but even this changed after she read a letter Arthur sent to his sister.

The letter was about their father's suicide and, in it, Arthur pointed to Johanna as being responsible for the tragedy, rumoured to be a suicide, saying that, whilst their father suffered ill in bed, abandoned to the care of an employee, Johanna amused herself in social reunions and gave her husband none of her time.

Near the end of the short election campaign, there appeared in the press the text of a letter purporting to have originated from Grigory Zinoviev, head of the Executive Committee of the Communist International ( Comintern ) and Arthur MacManus, the British representative to ECCI, and addressed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

The school originated as a medieval cathedral school, and it is often claimed ( e. g. by the historian Arthur Leach in a letter to The Times in 1896, and in the Guinness Book of Records ) to have been founded in AD 597 by St. Augustine, therefore making it the world's oldest extant school.

Believing that the English people would not react well to a foreign invader, he demanded in a letter to Rear-Admiral Arthur Herbert that the most eminent English Protestants first invite him to invade.

Arthur Bloch, in the first volume ( 1977 ) of his Murphy's Law, and Other Reasons Why Things Go WRONG series, prints a letter that he received from George E. Nichols, a quality assurance manager with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

The letter, congratulating him on his orbit around the Earth, enclosed a family tree showing that Anne's father, George Arthur Thomas Glenn, and John Glenn were cousins.

November 2: Balfour Declaration 1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sends a letter to Lord Rothschild, President of the Zionist Federation, declaring his government would " view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ".

The discovery of the first flexagon, a trihexaflexagon, is credited to the British student Arthur H. Stone who was studying at Princeton University in the USA in 1939, allegedly while he was playing with the strips he had cut off his foolscap paper to convert it to letter size.

In an article in La France, 1915, the French critic, Remy de Gourmont described the Imagists as descendants of the French Symbolistes and in a 1928 letter to the French critic and translator René Taupin, Pound was keen to emphasise another ancestry for Imagism, pointing out that Hulme was indebted to a Symbolist tradition, linking back via William Butler Yeats, Arthur Symons and the Rhymers ' Club generation of British poets to Mallarmé.

A letter of Sidonius's addressed to Riothamus, " King of the Brittones " ( c. 460 ) is of particular interest, since it provides evidence that a king or military leader with ties to Britain lived around the time frame of King Arthur.

Verlaine returned to Paris in August 1871, and, in September, he received the first letter from Arthur Rimbaud.

When the writer of the letter is traced, the dead man is assumed to be Arthur Cobbleigh, a British soldier listed as missing in action but who evidently deserted and stayed in France after the war.

Klemperer's bitterness at this decision was voiced in a letter he wrote to Arthur Judson, who ran the orchestra: " that the society did not reengage me is the strongest offense, the sharpest insult to me as artist, which I can imagine.

In September 1945, a letter was received by Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of Arthur Conan Doyle.

" The letter was written by an architect named Arthur Whitaker who had sent the story to Arthur Conan Doyle in 1911 with a suggestion that they publish it as a joint collaboration.

After seeing it attributed in the Sunday Dispatch to Arthur Conan Doyle, Whitaker wrote a letter to Denis Conan Doyle explaining the true authorship.

In the letter, LCDR Jackson quoted RADM Arthur W. Radford saying of Butch O ' Hare that he " never saw one individual so universally liked.

In the same brief letter where he introduced the communications satellite, Arthur C. Clarke suggested that, with respect to spacecraft, " the operating period might be indefinitely prolonged by the use of thermocouples.

Arthur Freeman maintained in a letter to Westall that ' we never presume JPC guilty until the evidence is sifted ', which, Westall remarks, ' hardly squares with the disparagement made in their ( the Freemans ') biography of those who ' high-mindedly ' suspend judgement, stating such an approach ' forfeits the opportunity to explain him at all '.

Of the Prince, Lady Lisgar, wife of then Governor General of Canada the Lord Lisgar, noted in a letter to Victoria that Canadians seemed hopeful Prince Arthur would one day return as governor general.