She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

His letter to his daughter on the pains of growing up is surely as trenchant, forthright, and warmly understanding a piece of advice as ever a grown-up penned to a sensitive child, and with just the right tone of unpatronizing good humor.

In 1428, he received a letter from Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, borne by two dignitaries, which proposed an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage that would require the Infante Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter.

In a subsequent letter to the daughter of Marina Tsvetaeva, Pasternak explained that the attack was motivated by the fact that the supernatural elements of the play, which Novy Mir considered, " irrational ," had been translated as Goethe had written them.

A letter Eusebius is supposed to have written to Constantine's daughter Constanza, refusing to fulfill her request for images of Christ, was quoted in the decrees ( now lost ) of the Iconoclast Council of Hieria in 754, and later quoted in part in the rebuttal of the Hieria decrees in the Second Council of Nicaea of 787, now the only source from which some of the text is known.

Knowing her death was imminent, May Belle Mitchell wrote her daughter a brief letter and advised her:

" Robertson for his part denied that Helm had written any of the songs attributed to Robertson and his daughter later remarked in a letter to the Los Angeles Times that Levon Helm's solo work consists almost entirely of songs written by others.

* Jerome, Christian prophet, writes his celebrated letter " De custodia virginitatis " ( vow of virginity ) to Eustochium, daughter of the ascetic Paula.

But Patel wrote in a letter to his daughter that he and his colleagues were experiencing " fullest peace " for having done " their duty.

" Her memoir concluded with a letter to her daughter, in which she addressed her several times as " Hyman ", and described her actions as " a glaring lack of loyalty and thanks for the very privileged life I feel you have been given ".

Caton also sends a personal letter for his daughter.

Perhaps behind the legend lies the offering by a Scythian king of his daughter as a wife for Alexander, as the latter himself wrote in a letter to Antipater.

Thomas E. Devine ( who served in a postal Army unit ) wrote Eyewitness: The Amelia Earhart Incident which includes a letter from the daughter of a Japanese police official who claimed her father was responsible for Earhart's execution.

In 1995, the UK local paper Kent Today talked to Pauline Day, whose Scientologist daughter Helen had sent a disconnection letter and then dropped all contact, even changing her phone number.

McCall's daughter, Marci, was hired by Verizon, which received such a letter, but was subsequently fired for using her company credit card to pay for substantial personal expenditures.

In a letter to Haggard dated 20 July 1912, his daughter Lillias documented a sighting of a Sea Serpent off the coast of Kessingland: " we are convinced we saw a sea serpent! I happened to look up when I was sitting on the lawn, and saw what looked like a thin, dark line with a blob at one end, shooting through the water at such a terrific speed it hardly seemed likely that anything alive could go at such a pace ... I suppose it was about 60 feet long.

An interesting history of the early years in Middleport has been kept in a letter written by Philip Jones ' daughter, Mrs. Lora Weldon and which is owned by Mrs. James Harley, Middleport, one of the descendants of Lieutenant Smith.

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.

His fall is elaborated upon by Seneca the Younger, in his letter to Cordus ' daughter Marcia To Marcia, On Consolation.

One of these is a letter of condolence to Cicero after the death of his daughter, Tullia.

Walt Disney's daughter, Diane Disney Miller, wrote a letter to Nixon's daughters saying that Stone had " committed a grave disservice to your family, to the Presidency, and to American history ".

Zelter indeed at one point favoured Fanny over Felix: he wrote to Goethe in 1816, in a letter introducing Abraham Mendelssohn to the poet, ' He has adorable children and his oldest daughter could give you something of Sebastian Bach.

Old Chris, a coal barge captain, receives a letter from his daughter, a young woman whom he has not seen since she was a 5 years old and their family lived in Sweden.

7 A Prayer for My Daughter – an open letter to Dawkins ' daughter Juliet ( to whom the book is dedicated ), concerning the importance of evaluating evidence.

In the same 1807 letter, Sophie claimed that if x < sup > n </ sup > + y < sup > n </ sup > is of the form h < sup > 2 </ sup > + nf < sup > 2 </ sup >, then x + y is also of that form.

Afterwards, Dimitri and Anastasia reconcile ; the two then elope and Anastasia sends a farewell letter to Marie and Sophie, promising to return someday.

Lettie looks like herself ( Mrs Fairfax is aware of the switch ) and is trying to find out how Howl knows Sophie and what has happened to her ( Fanny sent her a letter about Sophie's disappearance ).

During this time Jack receives a letter from Sophie, in which she, having seen a letter from Amanda Smith ( Jack's lover in The Surgeon's Mate ), accuses him of adultery and announces her intention of leaving him.

As Stephen departs to return to the fleet, Sophie writes a letter of reconciliation to Jack.

In the novel, Sophie finds a letter that Amy Travers, a schoolteacher and close friend of Helen's, had written to her:

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

The continued existence of TAI was questioned in a 2007 letter from the BIPM to the ITU-R which stated " In the case of a redefinition of UTC without leap seconds, the CCTF would consider discussing the possibility of suppressing TAI, as it would remain parallel to the continuous UTC.

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 ".

He / she must have a valid passport and either have an invitation letter or a bank statement with enough money to survive the length of the stay in Costa Rica, plus proof of onward travel ( ticket to exit Costa Rica & legal ability to travel to the destination stated on the ticket ).

Whenever the leading capital letter designation is missing, this is interpreted as being an informal form with an implicit " A " unless otherwise explicitly stated.

In a letter to Hayek in 1944, Popper stated, " I think I have learnt more from you than from any other living thinker, except perhaps Alfred Tarski.

Gardner's dissatisfaction with the group grew, particularly when in 1939, one of the group's leaders sent a letter out to all members in which she stated that war would not come.

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.

Finally, in a letter to Franz Mehring dated 14 July 1893, Engels stated:

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.

Most American and European gold jewellery is made of an alloy of gold, the purity of which is stated in karats, indicated by a number followed by the letter K. American gold jewellery must be of at least 10K purity ( 41. 7 % pure gold ), ( though in the UK the number is 9K ( 37. 5 % pure gold ) and is typically found up to 18K ( 75 % pure gold ).

His hand-written resignation letter, dated November 2, stated: " The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.

" Loach also joined " 54 international figures in the literary and cultural fields " in signing a letter that stated, in part, " celebrating ' Israel at 60 ' is tantamount to dancing on Palestinian graves to the haunting tune of lingering dispossession and multi-faceted injustice ".

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, head of the Luftwaffe, responded with a single-page letter in which he stated: "... a combined operation having the objective of landing in England must be rejected.

" Gödel himself wrote a letter to Cohen in 1963, a draft of which stated, " Let me repeat that it is really a delight to read your proof of the ind of the cont hyp.

In a letter sent by the former governor of Puerto Rico to the former U. S. Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice and the Co-Chairs of the White House's Presidential Task Force on Puerto Rico's Status on the Bush administration, former governor Acevedo Vilá stated:

However, these reports are disputed by Leonard D. Jaffe, who was Surveyor program scientist and custodian of the Surveyor 3 parts brought back from the Moon, stated in a letter to the Planetary Society that an unnamed member of his staff reported that a " breach of sterile procedure " took place at just the right time to produce a false positive result.

In the case of a certain Hugh whom the chapter of Chartres had elected bishop, he withheld his approbation because the bishop-elect did not possess sufficient knowledge, quum pateretur in litteratura defectum, as the Pope stated in a letter dated 8 January 1219.

Some fifteen years earlier, in a letter to the Saxon Chancellor Gregor Brück, Luther stated that he could not " forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture.

He relates how and when he became a Christian, and in his letter to Florinus stated that he saw and heard Polycarp personally in lower Asia.

In Yasser Arafat's September 9, 1993 letter to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as part of the first Oslo accord, Arafat stated that " The PLO recognizes the right of the State of Israel to exist in peace and security.

In response to a 1995 letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine, representatives of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) stated the agency would " update the labeling insert for all marketed fluoroquinolones to include a warning about the possibility of tendon rupture.

Following Odoacer's coup, the Roman Senate sent a letter to Zeno, which stated that " the majesty of a sole monarch is sufficient to pervade and protect, at the same time, both the East and the West ".

In a letter dated February 23, 2011 to the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, the Attorney General of the United States stated " while sexual orientation carries no visible badge, a growing scientific consensus accepts that sexual orientation is a characteristic that is immutable ".