French letter
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The precise wording of the French letter isn't the issue.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mr. Godfrey always treated him kindly, and had called upon him again that very morning to assist him in translating a French letter, complimenting him, at the same time, upon his scholarship.
From Try and Trust by Alger, Horatio
Let all dissolve, and spread over French letter paper, with a brush or piece of sponge.
From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)
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 Fleming, May Agnes
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 Taylor, Bayard