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.

In his last surviving letter from 14 October 1791, Mozart tells his wife that he collected Salieri and Caterina Cavalieri in his carriage and drove them both to the opera ; about Salieri's attendance at his opera The Magic Flute, speaking enthusiastically: " He heard and saw with all his attention, and from the overture to the last choir there was not a piece that didn't elicit a ' Bravo!

According to Giovanni Michieli, the Venetian ambassador, Philip may have planned to marry Elizabeth in the event of Mary's death in childbirth, but in a letter to his brother-in-law, Maximilian of Austria, Philip expressed uncertainty as to whether his wife was pregnant.

* How it all began, Bukharin's last letter to his wife

He wished to give away his inheritance and join a monastery, and in this letter Gregory advises that he may do so as long as his wife was willing to enter a convent.

While Morse was painting, a horse messenger delivered a letter from his father that read one line, " Your dear wife is convalescent ".

According to a letter published in the Rye and Battle Observer, Milligan's headstone was removed from St Thomas's churchyard following the burial of his wife Shelagh.

In a letter to his wife, Hideyoshi wrote:

In a now-famous letter written to his wife on the following day, John Adams predicted that July 2 would become a great American holiday.

During Adams ' second day in the house, he wrote a letter to his wife Abigail, containing a prayer for the house.

He wrote a final letter of advice to his supporters and left Scotland with his wife and mother-in-law.

John Calvin, who had lost his own wife in 1549, wrote a letter of condolence.

On his last day, 24 November 1572, his young wife read from Paul's first letter to the Corinthians.

His wife Porcia was reported to have committed suicide upon hearing of her husband's death, although, according to Plutarch ( Brutus 53 para 2 ), there is some dispute as to whether this is the case: Plutarch states that there is a letter in existence that was allegedly written by Brutus mourning the manner of her death.

Schindler and his wife fled to Austria's U. S. zone, escaping prosecution by dressing in prison clothes and carrying a letter testifying to their heroic actions.

He expressed his misgivings in a letter to his wife: " There is too little drama here, and no movement ... To me, opera without drama, in the strict sense, is unnatural.

Emil's wife Nan and her brother managed to evade Baby Face Nelson, who was tailing them, and mailed a letter of warning to a U. S. Attorney's office in Chicago, which later contacted the Division of Investigation.

A letter from Llywelyn to William's wife, Eva de Braose, written shortly after the execution enquires whether she still wishes the marriage between Dafydd and Isabella to take place.

) Cecil resisted for a while, in a letter to his wife, he wrote: " Seeing great perils threatened upon us by the likeness of the time, I do make choice to avoid the perils of God's displeasure.

In 1988, Callaghan's wife Audrey, a former chairman ( 1969 – 1982 ) of Great Ormond Street Hospital, spotted a letter to a newspaper which pointed out that the copyright of Peter Pan, which had been assigned by J. M. Barrie to the hospital, was about to expire.

Victor Hugo said of the belfry in a letter to his wife:

The letter revealed that the king's new wife would be known as Princesse de Réthy, not Queen Lilian, and that any children they had would have no claim to the throne ( though they would be Princes or Princesses of Belgium with the style Royal Highness ).

Since 1824, Indian logic attracted the attention of many Western scholars, and has had an influence on important 19th-century logicians such as Charles Babbage, Augustus De Morgan, and particularly George Boole, as confirmed by his wife Mary Everest Boole who wrote in an " open letter to Dr Bose " titled " Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century " written in 1901 < ref >

Upon finding him, Muybridge said, " Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here's the answer to the letter you sent my wife ", and shot him pointblank.

The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.

At this time Harriet wrote in a letter which after their finally landing in India was sent to her mother:

On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.

But things were worked out in the family and late in August he wrote Miss McCrady an explanatory letter in which he told her that matters at home had been in an unsettled condition after Papa's death and he had not known whether he would stay at home with Mama, accept the Northwestern job, or return to Harvard.

The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.

When Quiney and William Parsons wrote to Greville in 1593 asking his consent in the election for bailiff, they sent the letter to Mr. William Sawnders, attendant on the worshipful Mr. Thomas Bushell at Marston.

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.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

Richard Quiney the younger, a schoolboy of eleven, wrote a letter in Latin asking his father to buy copybooks ( `` chartaceos libellos ) '' ) for him and his brother.

Imagine the searching and the prayer that lay behind the letter the rector wrote after almost a decade of service to this majestic church.

In May, 1803, Ritter, in another flight of fancy, wrote to Oersted a letter that contained a remarkable prophecy.

`` I wrote Bill in my last letter to forget that I had told him that I didn't mean to reconsider my decision not to change my mind -- and he seems to have misunderstood me ''.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

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

Still another, annoyed by the brevity of a recently received missive, wrote: `` yore letter was short and sweet, jist like a roasted maget ''.

In a letter to the American Friends Service, Dr. Schweitzer wrote:

Channing wrote this -- in a letter!!

On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

In a letter to Andrew Johnson, the military governor of Tennessee, encouraging him to lead the way in raising black troops, Lincoln wrote, " The bare sight of 50, 000 armed and drilled black soldiers on the banks of the Mississippi would end the rebellion at once ".

Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that

In a letter, Lane wrote, " I do not see anyone to act the money part but myself.

In 2004, the small Ainu community living in Kamchatka Krai wrote a letter to Vladimir Putin, urging him to reconsider any move to award the Southern Kuril Islands to Japan.

A few months before Augustus ’ death in 14, the emperor wrote and sent a letter to Agrippina mentioning how Caligula must be future emperor because at that time, no other child had this name.

" wrote Peter ( in a tone that can only be guessed ) in a letter dated 13 August 1710.

In 1824, Jackson wrote a letter saying that he was born at an uncle's plantation in Lancaster County, South Carolina.