Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

There she extracted two limp vellum sheets and wrote off the letters, one to Abel, one to Mark.

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

Sometimes these servants wrote or dictated for enclosure with the letters of their soldier-masters messages to their relatives and to members of their owners' families.

He was born into a family of writers, the best known of whom was his paternal aunt, Anna Letitia Barbauld, a woman of letters who wrote poetry and essays as well as early children's literature.

In the 1780s while Mozart lived and worked in Vienna, he and his father Leopold wrote in their letters that several " cabals " of Italians led by Salieri were actively putting roadblocks in the way of Mozart's obtaining certain posts or staging his operas.

" In July 1783 Mozart wrote to his father of " a trick of Salieri's ", one of several letters in which he accused Salieri of trickery.

In February 1903, two followers of Muhammad ` Alí, including Badi ' u ' llah and Siyyid ` Aliy-i-Afnan, broke with Muhammad ` Ali and wrote books and letters giving details of Muhammad ` Ali's plots and noting that what was circulating about ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was fabrication.

He also wrote several shorter letters and essays discussing specific aspects of computus.

There the admiral wrote letters describing the events of the previous months: " It is an old saying, ' the Devil's children have the Devil's luck.

His father was gifted at drawing as well, wooing Alston's mother with small sketches in the medians of letters he wrote her.

Some of the letters she wrote to her father complaining of her treatment have survived.

Whilst awaiting trial, Kidd was confined in the infamous Newgate Prison and wrote several letters to King William requesting clemency.

As a result of his letters and, no doubt, personal conversations, Huxley and Haeckel were convinced that, at the time he wrote Principles, he believed new species had arisen by natural methods.

Both Whewell and Sedgwick wrote worried letters to him about this.

Some angry fans of Earnhardt wrote hate letters and death threats to Sterling Marlin, blaming him for causing the crash.

His son Christopher Trumbo wrote a play based on his letters during the period of the blacklist, entitled Red, White and Blacklisted ( 2003 ), produced in New York in 2003.

The girl's mother wrote letters of complaint to the California Attorney General and to Los Angeles prosecutors.

He wrote begging letters to random literary figures asking for support, a plan he hoped would provide a long-term regular income.

His wife managed to get him released from prison, and he wrote letters to his former wife, and told her he never ceased loving her.

During his imprisonment he wrote many letters, pleading his innocence.

This conjecture is also supported by other letters Galois later wrote to his friends the night before he died.

As its only member, in the role of " Parcier et Maître de Chapelle " he started to compose a ( later to become known as the ), and wrote a flood of letters, articles and pamphlets showing off his self-assuredness in religious and artistic matters.

While at Stein, Erasmus fell in love with a fellow canon, Servatius Rogerus, and wrote a series of passionate letters in which he called Rogerus " half my soul ".

Young Morris, who, while attending the University of Pennsylvania, also taught and edited a paper, found time to write Henrietta twenty-page letters on everything that engaged his interest, from the acting of Sarah Bernhardt in Philadelphia to his reactions to the comments of `` Sulamith '' on the Jewish reform movement being promulgated by the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati.

His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.

In general, the International System of Units only uses capital letters for the symbols of units which are named after individual scientists, while au or a. u.

Anne and Charlotte do not appear to have been close while at Roe Head ( Charlotte's letters almost never mention her ) but Charlotte was concerned about her sister's health.

In the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Buddha insists that while pondering upon Dharma is vital, one must then relinquish fixation on words and letters, as these are utterly divorced from liberation and the Buddha-nature.

CamelCase ( or camel case ), also known as medial capitals or Pascal case, is the practice of writing words with some inner uppercase letters, such as compound words or phrases in which the elements are joined without spaces, while each element has a capital letter within the compound.

For example, in German dictionaries the word ökonomisch comes between offenbar and olfaktorisch, while Turkish dictionaries treat o and ö as different letters, placing oyun before öbür.

All Christian monasticism stems, either directly or indirectly, from the Egyptian example: Saint Basil the Great Archbishop of Caesaria of Cappadocia, founder and organizer of the monastic movement in Asia Minor, visited Egypt around AD 357 and his rule is followed by the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; Saint Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin, came to Egypt, while en route to Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters ; Benedict founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pachomius, but in a stricter form.

), while the traditional term ' accompaniment ' conflates the categories of manner ( nasal, affricated ), phonation ( voiced, aspirated, breathy voiced, glottalized ), as well as any change in the airstream with the release of the posterior articulation ( pulmonic, ejective ), all of which are transcribed with additional letters or diacritics, as in the nasal alveolar click, ⟨⟩ or ⟨⟩ or — to take an extreme example — the voiced ( uvular ) ejective alveolar click, ⟨⟩.

By convention, unknowns are denoted by letters at the end of the alphabet, x, y, z, w, …, while knowns are denoted by letters at the beginning, a, b, c, d, ….

Letters from the beginning of the alphabet like a, b, c ... often denote constants in the context of the discussion at hand, while letters from the end of the alphabet, like ... x, y, z, are usually reserved for the variables, a convention initiated by Descartes.

Diacritical marks and non-English letters are ignored, while numerical entries such as " 1812, War of " are alphabetised as if the number had been written out (" Eighteen-twelve, War of ").

* Spanish foreign minister Juan Valera's Pepita Jimenez ( 1874 ) is writing in three sections, with the first and third being a series of letters, while the middle part is a narration by an unknown observer.

All five of its issues were published while the show was still on the air, and included letters from D. C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry, and most of the cast members, and an article by future Hugo and Nebula winner Lois McMaster Bujold.

The usage in computer programming examples and pseudocode varies ; in certain circles, it is used extensively, but many prefer descriptive names, while others prefer to use single letters.

In 2003, Peter Hollingworth stood aside temporarily while certain allegations against him were resolved, and the letters patent of the office were amended to take account of this circumstance.

In the 12th century, German Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen ( 1098 – 1179 ) wrote several influential theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.

The ancient Sogdian letters from the 4th century mention Huns, while the Chinese sources write Xiongnu, in the context of the sacking of Luoyang.

She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations.

Europe ), so naturally it feels familiar, even if a little glorified by enchantment of distance in time., Letters pg, 239 ",</ ref > This was not always clear, however, as a few of his early letters described that while his stories take place on earth, elements of the stories as a kind of "... secondary or sub-creational reality " or " Secondary belief " in replies to letters, or " at a different stage of imagination ...".