"Short letter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... short letter from thy Cousin Clifford, Peggy. If he should speak of the matter, I dare say he will not, thee may say that 'tis all right. That I have no ...
— Peggy Owen and Liberty • Lucy Foster Madison
... it much about this Season: and a year ago I wrote you my first Letter to India from it. I came hither from Brighton a week ago: how long to be here uncertain: you had best direct to Goldington Hall, Bedford. I sent you a short Letter by last Marseilles' Post from Brighton: and I now begin this short one because I have happened again to take hold of some Books which we are mutually interested in. I have left with Borrow the Copy of the Mantic De Tassy gave me; so some days ago I bought another Copy of Norgate. For ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald - in two volumes, Vol. 1 • Edward FitzGerald
... the postilion at the gate; entered the house; ascended to the room in which she had passed her youth, and known in the family by her name; took possession of it again; intimated by signs, and by one short letter at her first arrival, what she would require; lived for nearly twenty years in this state of La Trappe seclusion and silence; nor ever, to the hour of her death, explained what circumstances had dissolved the supposed happy ...
— Autobiographic Sketches • Thomas de Quincey
... and five. If the dictator is a correspondent then the calculation of how much it costs him to dictate a letter is his salary plus the overhead on the space that he occupies, divided by the number of letters that he writes in an average month. It takes him longer to write a long than a short letter, but routine letters will average fairly over a period of a month. But an executive who writes only letters that cannot be written by correspondents or lower salaried men commonly does so many other things in the course of a day that although his average ...
— How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) - A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence • Mary Owens Crowther
... following short letter to Mrs Grantly when he had made up his mind to pull down the ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
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