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

Mr. Justice Taney's Dred Scott decision in 1857 was unpopular in the North, and soon became a dead letter.

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.

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

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The use of map coordinates was begun when the senior officers began to select tactical points by designating a spot as `` near the letter o in the word mountain ''.

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.

It need hardly be remarked that Thompson was not generally known for his scrupulosity about keeping his social engagements, which makes his irritation in this letter all the more significant.

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

In a letter to Meynell, which was written in June, less than a month before Katie's wedding, he was highly melodramatic in his despair and once again announced his intention of returning to the life of the streets: ``

And Pike never did find out if Robinson was really responsible for the `` Vale '' letter.

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

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

When Fosdick showed the letter to Baker his negative response was: `` For God's sake, Raymond, don't show this to the President or he'll stop the war ''.

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.

But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.

but the letter went on: she had cried, she had implored, she had been miserable at his refusal, and finally he had relented -- and now how happy she was, how expectant!!

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art ''.

In June, 1960, an early draft of the questionnaire, along with a cover letter, was mailed to fourteen companies in the state of Washington.

Each questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter addressed personally to the president or other executive of each firm.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

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

`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

A Reb stationed near Petersburg informed his mother: `` I need not tell you that I dodge pretty often for you can see that very plainly by the blots in this letter.

Alfred lamented in the preface to his translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care that " learning had declined so thoroughly in England that there were very few men on this side of the Humber who could understand their divine services in English, or even translate a single letter from Latin into English: and I suppose that there were not many beyond the Humber either ".

This insulting behaviour, and the language of the letter with which Andrew reappeared, marked the mission a failure: King Louis, says Joinville, " se repenti fort " (" felt very sorry ").

The use of letter " i " prefixes and suffixes to denote information technology or interactivity was very much in vogue at this time, notably with the launch of the iMac and the iPod by Apple Computer ; according to the BBC, the " i " in BBCi stood for " interactivity " as well as " innovation ".

Part of Jude is very similar to 2 Peter ( mainly 2 Peter chapter 2 ), so much so that most scholars agree that there is a dependence between the two ; that either one letter used the other directly, or they both drew on a common source.

However Michael Wilcock, formally of Trinity College, Bristol, argues that Elijah's letter: ' does address a very ' northern ' situation in the southern kingdom ', and thus is authentic.

The central dispute in the letter concerns the question of how Gentiles could convert to Christianity, which shows that this letter was written at a very early stage in church history, when the vast majority of Christians were Jewish or Jewish proselytes, which historians refer to as the Jewish Christians.

In his introduction, Blevins writes, " Since the time of F. C. Baur, very few scholars have doubted the Pauline authorship of the letter.

The use of insert shots, i. e. close-ups of objects other than faces, was established very early, but apart from the special case of Inserts of a letter that was being read by one of the characters, they were infrequently used before 1914.

After the release of Black Wednesday government documents, it became apparent that Major came very close to stepping down from office at this point, having even prepared an unsent letter of resignation addressed to the Queen.

In a 1753 letter he wrote that he had " become very fond of studying the surface of the earth, and was looking with anxious curiosity into every pit or ditch or bed of a river that fell in his way ”.

In a letter read during the ceremony, Rachel Robinson, Jackie's widow, wrote: " I remember Montreal and that house very well and have always had warm feeling for that great city.

Ranging from small letter openers to scale replica " wallhangers ", these items are commonly made from stainless steel ( which makes them either brittle or poor at holding an edge ) and have either a blunt or very crude edge.

Unlike Microsoft Multiplan, it stayed very close to the model of VisiCalc, including the " A1 " letter and number cell notation, and slash-menu structure.

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.

That such a letter was a fiction was demonstrated very soon after ; when Stephen asked Desiderius to fulfil the promises he had made over the body of Saint Peter, the Lombard king responded:

In both content and style this letter is very different from 1 Peter.

There is extant a very pious Latin letter written by him to a fellow-martyr, and another to Cromwell, begging for some slight mitigation of his " close prison "; " license to go to church and say Mass here within the Tower and for to lie in some house upon the Green ".

However Brooke does caution that the late attestation may be due to the very short nature of the letter.

In contemporary use, the practice and study of typography is very broad, covering all aspects of letter design and application.

The couple corresponded during his service in Mexico ; in one letter Julia shared with him a very pleasurable dream she had of him in a beard, which he was then sporting upon his return after the war.

This letter is in itself a reflection of the very nature of Jardine as a businessman and itself an explanation why the man was considered as the most powerful trader in the South China coast.

A constituent, James Stewart, once commented to a friend who wrote this letter, "... he ( Stewart ) had come mainly to see one Jardine, an enormous Laird from Applegarth Parish and China, and a very good man ; who is understood to be dangerously ill at present.