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 ".

" Johnson, in a letter to Gov.

* 1966 – U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

It was during this time that Richardson received a letter from Samuel Johnson asking for money to pay for a debt that Johnson was unable to afford.

Unknown to either Johnson or Hunt, the letter was intercepted by government spies and copied before being sent on to its destination.

* Scanned letter from Wernher Von Braun to Vice President Johnson

Keillers ' well-known claim to have ' invented ' orange marmalade in 1797 is debunked by such references as " My wife has made marmalade of oranges for you " in James Boswell's letter to Dr Johnson of 24 April 1777.

The letter b in the word debt was reintroduced in the 18th century, possibly by Samuel Johnson in his Dictionary of 1755 – several other words that had existed without a b had them reinserted at around that time.

* Petersburg James A. Johnson Airport, Alaska, which has the three letter IATA code PSG

After the election, the American Mental Health Foundation wrote a letter to President Johnson protesting the " hysteria " surrounding the case:

In the fall of 1991 former church Archivist Lee Johnson presented a six-page letter of the book's unusual history.

During the initial investigations, a man named James William Lewis sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $ 1 million to stop the cyanide-induced murders.

While imprisoned, Ewell organized a group of sixteen former generals also at Fort Warren, including Edward " Allegheny " Johnson and Joseph B. Kershaw, and sent a letter to Ulysses S. Grant about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, for which they said no Southern man could feel anything other than " unqualified abhorrence and indignation " and insisting that the crime should not be connected to the South.

It successfully reported to Congress " 49 pieces of bedrock legislation ", as President Johnson put it in an May 18, 1966 letter congratulating Powell on the fifth anniversary of his chairmanship.

Bhutto's was a strong advocate of developing ties with China, this policy came under severe criticism from the United States, President Johnson wrote a letter to President Khan calling on him to fire Mr Bhutto and to only maintain ties with the " free world ".

When Pryor stood by Faulk during the blacklisting and tried to find him work, Pryor's children were harassed ; a prominent Austin physician circulated a letter questioning Pryor's patriotism ; an Austin attorney tried to convince Lyndon Johnson to discharge Pryor from the airwaves.

In February 2010 during the Black Ice World Tour Johnson lashed out at a group of AC / DC fans who had written an open letter to the band asking for a change in the setlist, saying " Fuck them!

On 2 June 2010, Johnson read out a letter to Parliament which he sent to the Australian Federal Police alleging he was subject to " illegal pressure " to resign from Federal Parliament by the Liberal National Party President Bruce McIver, during a meeting on 25 February in Canberra.

On April 5, Johnson wrote a letter to the United States House of Representatives urging passage of the Fair Housing Act.

Stephen also discovers that Johnson had secretly opened a letter from Diana stating her love and regard for him.

Johnson agreed, and wrote a letter in return, which said they were waiting for a Soviet response for US invitation.

Green was a good-natured victim of hoax letter writers, the Reverend Toby Forward and the Reverend David Johnson, writing under the pseudonym Francis Wagstaffe.

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.

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.