French letter
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The precise wording of the French letter isn't the issue.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was the receipt for a box addressed to Count Ladislas Kasincsky, and I temporarily added his family name to the writer of the French letter, assuming her to be his wife.
From Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home by Bayard Taylor
In silence, and with a face of contemptuous disgust, Mr. Gilbert takes up the French letter, points to a column, and watches him.
From Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir by May Agnes Fleming
This evening I was late writing a French letter by my Lord's order to Monsieur Wragh, Embassador de Denmarke a la Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. 23rd.
From The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Richard Griffin, Baron Braybrooke
She proved to be La Sybille, a French letter of marque, carrying eight guns, twenty-five men, and bound for the French West India Islands with a valuable cargo.
From True Blue by William Henry Giles Kingston
