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 ''.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

According to the biography, Penicillin Man: Alexander Fleming and the Antibiotic Revolution by Kevin Brown, Alexander Fleming, in a letter to his friend and colleague Andre Gratia, described this as " A wondrous fable.

In a letter to R. B. Fuller Esq., dated 1 August 1913, McCormick described the circumstances that inspired him to write Advance Australia Fair:

In a letter published in a follow-up edition of The Humanist, Sagan confirmed that he would have been willing to sign such a statement had it described and refuted the principal tenets of astrological belief.

Faras sketched and described the constellation ( calling it " Las Guardas ") in a letter written on the beaches of Brazil on May 1, 1500, to the Portuguese monarch.

In a letter to P. Schuyler Miller and John D. Clark in 1936 only three months before Howard's death, Conan is described as standing and weighing when he takes part in an attack on Venarium at only 15 years old, though being far from fully grown.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

Martin Luther described Paul's letter to the Romans as the " most important piece in the New Testament.

In a letter, dated 1725 he described Glasnevin as " the receptacle for thieves and rogues.

Emperor Wilhelm I described Abeken in a condolence letter to his widow: One of my most reliable advisors, standing on my side in the most decisive moments ; His loss is irreplaceable to me ; In him his fatherland has lost one of the most noble and most loyal men and officials.

Bal Gangadhar Tilak has described Jainism as the originator of Ahimsa and wrote in a letter printed in Bombay Samachar, Mumbai: 10 December 1904: " In ancient times, innumerable animals were butchered in sacrifices.

It was the first appearance in print of Keats's poetry, and Charles Cowden Clarke described it as his friend's red letter day, the first proof that Keats's ambitions were valid.

In the earliest preserved Christian record, a letter of Florentine senate to the King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, dated 20 October 1389, Murad I's killing was described.

In a letter to Francesco Vettori, he described his exile:

The Gohonzon is described as an object for focus of devotion in Nichiren ’ s letter: “ The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind ” which is acknowledged by most followers of Nichiren Buddhism.

The exploit is described in a celebrated letter addressed to his friend and confessor, the monk Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, composed some time after the fact.

This armillary sphere was also described by Gerbert in a letter to his colleague Constantine.

Mary was an active Bahá ' í teacher and youth worker, and a letter written to Shoghi Effendi described her as " a beautiful and most refreshing girl to know ".

The sarati, described in Parma Eldalamberon 13, a script developed by J. R. R. Tolkien in the late 1910s, anticipates many features of the tengwar, especially the vowel representation by diacritics ( which is found in many tengwar varieties ), different tengwar shapes and a few correspondences between sound features and letter shape features ( though inconsistent ).

Gladstone's first letter described what he saw in Naples as " the negation of God erected into a system of government ".

He described his discovery in a letter to Judah.

* Plinian eruption, volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ( as described in a letter written by Pliny the Younger )

When a judge of the High Court who is not present is being referred to they are described as " Mr ./ Mrs. Justice N ." In writing, the post-nominal letter " J " is used to denote a Judge ( male or female ) of the High Court: for example, Smith J.

A letter by Ishbara Qaghan to Emperor Wen of Sui in 585 described him as " the Great Turk Khan.

In a letter to a friend, Carroll described the domain of the Snark as " an island frequented by the Jubjub and the Bandersnatch — no doubt the very island where the Jabberwock was slain ".