For his part, Thompson had explained in a previous letter that there would be nothing but an honorable friendship between Katie and himself.

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.

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.

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.

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

This letter would have got to me if she hadn't even put Rome, Italy, on it.

But due to the many applicants on file, would he co-operate and write a personal letter giving them his son's motivation, interests and his qualifications for leadership??

This was the letter which would or would not enroll his son, David, in Hanford.

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 ".

The continued existence of TAI was questioned in a 2007 letter from the BIPM to the ITU-R which stated " In the case of a redefinition of UTC without leap seconds, the CCTF would consider discussing the possibility of suppressing TAI, as it would remain parallel to the continuous UTC.

The @ symbol was not used in continental Europe and the committee expected it would be replaced by an accented À in the French variation, so the @ was placed in position 40 < sub > hex </ sub > next to the letter A.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

Although he was not an innovator, he would not follow the absolute letter of the law ; rather he was driven by concerns over humanity and equality, and introduced into Roman law many important new principles based upon this notion.

In 1428, he received a letter from Yeshaq I of Ethiopia, borne by two dignitaries, which proposed an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage that would require the Infante Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter.

He later sent a letter to Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, in which he wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, but it probably never reached the Emperor.

: In response to your letter of September 9, 1993, I wish to confirm to you that, in light of the PLO commitments included in your letter, the Government of Israel has decided to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people and commence negotiations with the PLO within the Middle East peace process.

`` 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.

* " Dear Dad ", episode twelve of the first season of M * A * S * H, used the framing device of a letter written by Hawkeye Pierce to his father to describe the events of the episode.

Bayer, which manufactures Cipro, Avelox and Proquin XR, issued a Dear Healthcare Professional letter on 22 October concerning these changes.

* 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.

Inspired by a Dear John letter he had received from his girlfriend, Raksin wrote the haunting theme for which Johnny Mercer later wrote lyrics.

The wife of a baronet is addressed and referred to as " Lady < Bloggs >"; at the head of a letter as " Dear Lady < Bloggs >".

At the head of the letter, one would write " Dear Dame < Daisy >," and to refer to her, you would say " Dame < Daisy >" or " Dame < Daisy Smith >" ( never " Dame < Smith >").

The letter reads: " Dear Sir, I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the song which you have just broadcast about the lumberjack who wears women's clothes.

On hearing this, Clarke sent a facetious letter to NASA's chief administrator: " Dear Sir, on checking my records, I see that I have never received payment for this work.

In another episode, one of Carter's interesting character faults is that when he suffered the loss of his hometown sweetheart, Mary Jane, as the result of a ' Dear John ' letter, he became strictly GI and disciplined.

Clive also repelled the aggression of the Dutch, and avenged the massacre of Amboyna – the occasion when he wrote his famous letter ; " Dear Forde, fight them immediately ; I will send you the order of council to-morrow ".

* In the 1996 comedy film Dear God, a character played by Greg Kinnear, who works in the dead letter office at Los Angeles, CA, responds to letters written to God.

When addressing a letter to the holder of a particular position without knowing the name or gender of the addressee, it is common to write " Dear Sir or Madam ,".

He forces her into the closet and locks it, then looks down at their desk and sees a " Dear Jane " letter for Harriet, saying he has run away.

The non-U. S. singles were " Nobody Knows ," a minor hit in the UK, Australia and Germany ; " Dear Mr. President ," an open letter to the U. S. President George W. Bush ( featuring the Indigo Girls ) and a number 1 hit in Belgium, a top five hit in Germany, Australia and other countries ; " Leave Me Alone ( I'm Lonely )," a UK top 40 and Australian top five entry ; and "' Cuz I Can.

* Dear John letter, a break-up letter to an absent boyfriend or husband

* Dear John Doe letter, a letter sent to a soldier's family notifying them the soldier has died.

On August 7, 1969, another letter was received at The San Francisco Examiner with the salutation " Dear Editor This is the Zodiac speaking.

The incident was known as the " Dear Els "- incident, because the letter was addressed to Borst personally.

Dear child, keep this letter secret so that people do not find it, else I shall be tortured most piteously and the jailers will be beheaded.

He explained his decision not to serve in World War II in a letter addressed to President Franklin Roosevelt on September 7, 1943, stating, " Dear Mr President: I very much regret that I must refuse the opportunity you offer me in your communication of August 6, 1943 for service in the Armed Force.

On 20 August, Orage wrote his last letter to Gurdjieff: " Dear Mr. Gurdjieff, I've found very little to revise ..."

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

" ( Book of The Life of Sir William Phips first published anonymously in London in 1697 ) And Mather then included the letter, but, for his own reasons ( surely not brevity, Magnalia is huge ) left out the first, second, and eight sections, which would seem most encouraging to the judges to carry-on with their work.

En route back to London in 1932 Gardner stopped off in Egypt and, armed with a letter of introduction, joined Sir Flinders Petrie who was excavating the site of Tall al-Ajjul in Palestine.

John Dowland was married and had children, as referenced in his letter to Sir Robert Cecil.

Comptroller of the Navy Sir Charles Middleton explained to Prime Minister Pitt in a letter of 5 September 1786: “ It is for Hemp only we are dependent on Russia.

After the successful Conservative campaign of 1841, J. W. Croker said in a letter to Peel, " The elections are wonderful, and the curiosity is that all turns on the name of Sir Robert Peel.

There is a surviving letter from the French king dated 7 November 1300 to his envoys in Rome demanding that they should help Sir William.

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.

Another variant of the scam, dating back to circa 1830, appears very similar to what is passed via email today: "' Sir, you will be doubtlessly be astonished to be receiving a letter from a person unknown to you, who is about to ask a favour from you.

These untruths were exposed by General Sir Frederick Maurice in a letter to the press-Lloyd George survived the Commons Debate ( the first occasion on which the Liberal Party openly split ) but years later admitted that he had " misinformed the House ".

There is no conclusive evidence of Richard's intention to marry Elizabeth ( which would have been subject to the Pope granting dispensations for such marriages ), although Sir George Buck later stated to have uncovered a now lost letter from Elizabeth which indicated she was involved and willing.

The second and third manifestos, respectively An Open Letter to Sir Nicholas Serota and Remodernism, were sent to Nicholas Serota which received a brief reply: " Thank you for your open letter dated 6 March.

1791. Sir, I thank you sincerely for your letter of the 19th.

That same year the rebuilding was already well begun, for in a letter from the amateur architect Sir Thomas Robinson of Rokeby to his father-in-law Lord Carlisle of 6 June 1734, Sir Thomas reports that he found the garden front " finished " and that a start had been made on the main front: " when finished ' twill be a stupendous fabric, infinitely superior to anything we have now in England ," and he adds " The whole finishing will be entirely submitted to Lord Burlington, and I know of no subject's house in Europe will have 7 such magnificent rooms so finely proportioned as these will be.

It was published anonymously in 1783, Lady Anne only acknowledging the authorship of the words two years before her death in a letter to Sir Walter Scott ( 1823 ), who subsequently edited it for the Bannatyne Club with two continuations.

And as Sir Edward Grey suggested a mediation between the Austrians and the Serbs Bethmann-Hollweg is known to have been manipulating the British message-in order to forestall any chance that the Austrians would refrain from attacking Serbia-by deleting the last line of the letter which read:

A second letter to his friend Sir Richard Steele was also found, concerning the Tatler and other matters.

The strength of feeling was recorded in a letter from Lord Conyers and Sir John Bulmer to Thomas Cromwell: " On Sunday, 11th July, at Gysburn in Yorkshire, when the parish priest was declaring the articles dissolution directed by the King to the Archbishop of York, one John Atkeynson alias Brotton came violently and took book forth of the priest's hands, and pulled it in pieces.

Hill gave Maclain a letter of protection and a letter to Sir Colin asking that he receive Maclain's oath since Maclain had come to him within the allotted time.

Callow's immersion in the theatre began after he wrote a fan letter to Sir Laurence Olivier, the Artistic Director of the National Theatre, and received a response suggesting he join their box office staff.