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.

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.

Kodyke had appeared at the mine one day bearing a letter from Kruger.

And indeed, his postcard did draw from Walter a letter recommending his friend, the poet Nicolas Manas, to his friend Meredith Wilder.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

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.

He closes his `` letter '' by demanding that Dunkirk be demolished, that the Pretender be forced to move farther away from the coast of England, and that the Queen and the House of Hanover come to a better understanding.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

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 ''.

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

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 ''.

Sturley on November 4 answered a letter from Quiney written on October 25 which imported, wrote Sturley, `` that our countriman Mr. Wm. Shak. would procure us monei: which I will like of as I shall heare when, wheare & howe: and I prai let not go that occasion if it mai sort to ani indifferent condicions.

A fascinating letter has just reached this desk from a correspondent who likes to receive so-called junk mail.

John's thoughts raced painfully into the past as he read the letter he had just received from his sister Mary.

Jonathan's letter came, as she knew it would, and he had accepted their child's death as another judgment from God against both Kate and himself.

The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.

On November 7, 1859, the Providence Daily Journal reprinted a letter sent to John Brown from `` E. B. '', a Quaker lady in Newport.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

I would tell them I got a letter from home stating that five of my Negroes had runaway and ten of Pappy's.

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.

East River, downtown: postscript to a letter from Harlem

Both elements -- the caution about a meeting, the willingness eventually to hold one -- were reflected in a letter from the President which Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson brought back to Russia late in February.

Rose Weiss, who handles all the prayer-requests that we receive, answering each letter personally, has the serene selflessness that comes from suffering: she has had many major operations, and now gets about in a limited way on braces and crutches.

His lawyer had sent him a statement on his overdue alimony, and there was a letter from the Collector of Internal Revenue asking him to stop in his office and explain last year's exemptions.

She refolded the letter, replaced it in its envelope, and turned with relief to one from her brother George.

Tax worries, production worries, personnel worries, and the letter from Hanford College, his own alma mater, a real snapper.