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.

Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, which contains hundreds of private letters written by Thompson over the years, contains a letter in which he uses A Modest Proposals satire technique against the Vietnam War.

He states that " a private letter may have a signatory — it does not have an author ".

In a private letter, he wrote: " Dene is probably the son-of-a-bitchiest language in America to actually know ... most fascinating of all languages ever invented.

In 1932, Hayek suggested that private investment in the public markets was a better road to wealth and economic coordination in Britain than government spending programs, as argued in a letter he co-signed with Lionel Robbins and others in an exchange of letters with John Maynard Keynes in The Times.

From a private letter from journalist Susan Myrick to Margaret Mitchell in February 1939: " George finally told me all about it.

" He did, however, stipulate in a letter to the Viceroy's private secretary that he " personally will not kill or injure anybody, friend or foe.

Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter, “ In our private pursuits it is a great advantage that every honest employment is deemed honorable.

On June 27, 1978, Gell-Mann wrote a private letter to the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, in which he related that he had been influenced by Joyce's words: " The allusion to three quarks seemed perfect.

Agricola's De formando studio-his long letter on a private educational programme-was printed as a small booklet and thus influenced pedagogical insights of the early-sixteenth century.

Sammarinese authorities license private vehicles with distinctive licence plates which are white with blue figures, usually a letter followed by up to four numbers.

Generally, messages will appear to be something else: images, articles, shopping lists, or some other covertext and, classically, the hidden message may be in invisible ink between the visible lines of a private letter.

Edison was called an atheist for those remarks, and although he did not allow himself to be drawn into the controversy publicly, he clarified himself in a private letter: " You have misunderstood the whole article, because you jumped to the conclusion that it denies the existence of God.

Indications within the letter suggest a genuine private letter, composed to Gaius to commend a party of Christians led by Demetrius, who were strangers to the place where he lived, and who had gone on a mission to preach the gospel ( verse 7 ).

While postmarks are applied almost universally by or under the authority of the official postal department, service, or authority the United States it is possible to receive a permit to apply your own postmark, called a Mailer's Permit Postmark, and under certain conditions specified by the private express statutes in the United States, a privately carried letter may be cancelled with a private postmark.

In 1884, the Barbados Agricultural Society sent a letter to Sir Francis Hincks requesting his private and public views on whether the Dominion of Canada would favourably entertain having the then colony of Barbados admitted as a member of the Canadian Confederation.

In 1827, Virginia Governor William B. Giles released a letter from Jefferson meant to be kept private to Thomas Ritchie's Richmond Enquirer.

At the conference, Marshal Peng Dehuai, the Minister of Defence, criticized Great-Leap policies in a private letter to Mao, writing that it was plagued by mismanagement and cautioning against elevating political dogma over the laws of economics.

One variant of the scam may date back to the 18th or 19th centuries, as a very similar letter, entitled, " The Letter From Jerusalem " is seen in the memoirs of Eugène François Vidocq, a former French criminal and private investigator.

He wrote a private letter to Secretary of War James Seddon, requesting that he be transferred to serve under his old friend Gen. Joseph E. Johnston.

" In 1883, Governor Grover Cleveland drafted legislation authorizing acquisition of lands for a state reservation at Niagara and The Niagara Falls Association, a private citizens group founded in 1882, mounted a great letter writing campaign and petition drive in support of the park.

Tolkien wrote in a private letter:

* 1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.

He studied government and history, and had private political discussions with his brother Joseph.

He left his post in Breslau in a fit of frustration and from 1807 to 1810, Weber served as private secretary to Duke Ludwig, brother of King Frederick I of Württemberg.

On July 14, 1861, he joined Captain Josiah White's Company " E ", Tennessee Mounted Rifles as a private along with his youngest brother and fifteen-year-old son.

His father, a business promoter, sent Hart and his brother to private schools.

Much of Gertrude Stein's fame derives from a private modern art gallery she assembled from 1904 to 1913 with her brother Leo Stein.

Chen was given a traditional Confucian education by his grandfather, several private tutors, and his elder brother .< ref name =" Brit1 "> Tse-tsung Chow.

Jack and his brother were sent to the recently-established Portland Academy, a private school.

He was finally allowed to return to Paris in 1781 to settle his affairs and attempt to find copies of the disputed records, but his differences with various French officials, coupled with the publication in Rivington's Royal Gazette in New York of private letters to his brother in which he repudiated the Revolution as hopeless and suggested a rapprochement with Britain, led to his being barred from entry and branded a traitor at home.

Pecuniary means he valued no further than they enabled him to promote his researches ; and to the poor, to non-beneficed clergymen, professional authors and artists his services were rendered without remuneration .< p > His nature was kindly and generous, though outwardly rude and repelling .... Later in life, for some private or personal reason, he picked a quarrel with the brother who had formed him and made a man of him, basing the dissension upon a quibble about priority unworthy of so great an investigator.

Some modern historians use Edward's date of birth as an evidence of illegitimacy: the Duke had been away in the calculated days of conception and the baby's baptism was a simple and private affair ( unlike that of his younger brother, George, which was public and lavish ).

Of his private life, a childhood friend of Albert Victor later recalled that it was uneventful: " his brother officers had said that they would like to make a man of the world of him.

Durrell was home-schooled during this time by various family friends and private tutors, mostly friends of his eldest brother Lawrence ( later a famous novelist ).

Commissioned by the wealthy merchant and financier Joost Vijdt for his and his wife's private chapel, it was begun by Hubert van Eyck, who died in 1426 while work was underway, and completed by his younger brother Jan van Eyck.

The following year his brother Clive died, and Burchett flew to Brisbane by a private plane, triggering a media sensation.

In 1790, Willie's brother, William, was appointed governor of the newly-created Southwest Territory, and Willie accompanied him to the new territory to serve as his private secretary.

In 1846 Morgan enlisted with his brother Calvin and uncle Alexander in the U. S. Army as a cavalry private during the Mexican-American War.

In 1927, a private investigation funded by the Tsarina's brother, Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, identified Anderson as Franziska Schanzkowska, a Polish that you would recoil in horror at the thought that this frightful creature could be a daughter of our Tsar.

Duckworth's older brother Sir George Herbert Duckworth ( 1868 – 1934 ) was private secretary to Austen Chamberlain and was the grandfather of Anthony Duckworth-Chad.

He attended Marshall Academy, a K – 12 private school in Holly Springs, but completed his senior year of high school in Florida, where he, his mother, and brother moved after his parents separated.

His older brother, Robert, also joined the same unit as a private.

In October 1968, a year and a half before the fatal crash, Reuther and his brother Victor were almost killed in a small private plane as it approached Dulles airport.

William K. Oldham's younger brother Kie Oldham ( 1869-1916 ) served as James Eagle's private secretary while he was governor, gathered an important collection of documents about Arkansas ' Civil War history, and was a prominent lawyer, working primarily as an advocate for Indian tribes.

His parents, Isidor and Johanna ( née Prausnitzer ), took care of their children's education and provided them private tutoring at home-Leopold's younger brother Hugo Kronecker would also follow a scientific path later becoming a notable physiologist.