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	Charles Darwin, man of letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The letters also reveal how the continuing controversy generated by the theory in Britain was heightened by the award of the Royal Society's prestigious Copley Medal to Darwin towards the end of the year.
		Letter writing and reading were a major, and often exhausting, part of Darwin's daily routine.
		Transcription of the letter texts was largely completed by the mid-1980s, although 20 to 50 new letters are discovered each year.
	www.admin.cam.ac.uk /news/dp/2001071201 (848 words)

	INVENTORY OF THE MAN RAY LETTERS AND ALBUM, 1922-1976 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		personal letters concerning his and other artists' plans for leaving France; much on chess and the creation of chess sets and boards; an exhibition of rotoreliefs with sketches on how to install (4/10/48); creation and sales of his boxes; and news of Mary (see unidentified for letters from Mary).
		The letters chronicle Richter's difficulty with interpreting MR's story onto film, his thoughts on how it should be done, the types of critics that are interested in reviewing the film, and the Hollywood opening.
		2 letters (one of which is illustrated on the verso) updating MR on emigration plans of their artist friends, and a note.
	www.getty.edu /research/conducting_research/finding_aids/manray_m6.html (667 words)

	Print Article: Man of letters
		Bryant, this letter revealed, "was given this technology to get rid of guns and to be used as an experiment".
		The letter arrived mid-last year, at the same time as a sizeable, well-organised group had started a campaign against me because of what they were certain was my pro-Government stance on refugees.
		And if 50 letters arrive on any given subject and 40 can be characterised as being on one side and 10 on another, and we decide to run 10 letters in the Herald, that's the percentage that we will follow - eight one way and two the other.
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2003/01/08/1041990001219.html (1266 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Man of Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Like jovial, bespectacled Ben Franklin steering his kite in the rainstorm, or statesmanlike Lincoln gazing at the circumference of our penny, Walt is packaged according to a rather misleading stereotype: the genial man of the people, a straw hanging from his lips, his hat tilted at a jaunty angle.
		The fulsome letters to Leech, about the only ones that form a kind of ongoing narrative, uncover the pre-Leaves of Grass Whitman, the poet before he envisioned a generous, all-embracing new world.
		The claims originally made for him as man and moralist are made less often, and promise to disappear.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A44103-2004Aug5?language=printer (1178 words)

	Columbia College Today - Nov. 1999
		A series of letters between a mother and her son spanned his being drafted, boot camp, and eventually action on the front lines.
		In the early letters the young soldier, who by mistake was drafted a year before being eligible, begs his mother to correct the error and free him.
		Many were previously unpublished letters and some were written by people who are not famous, such as a woman writing to her birth mother wondering if they will ever meet.
	www.college.columbia.edu /cct/nov99/nov99_feature_carroll.html (3356 words)

	The man of war & man of letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In short, a rare man, who appears to be incapable of harming a fly but who, on the other hand, has unwaveringly risen to the most difficult military challenge this century.
		He is an elegant man, who likes to stand on ceremony and his brothers-in-arms consider him a soldier of the old school, who shares bread and salt with the troops and who cannot live without knowing what other people think of him.
		Bad news for a man of letters who never thought he would be a soldier and for a soldier who dreams of being a man of letters, both now carrying the burden, the tremendous risk, of the third world war.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie/daily/19990412/ile12092.html (846 words)

	INVENTORY OF THE MAN RAY LETTERS AND ALBUM, 1922-1976 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Man Ray Letters and Album consists of a significant ensemble of letters and writings by or addressed to Man Ray, collected and safeguarded by his sister Elsie Ray Siegler and her daughter Naomi Savage.
		The letters from Man Ray are addressed to Siegler and Savage and provide a rich chronicle of his personal and professional life from 1922-1976.
		Letters to Man Ray are from celebrated Dada and Surrealist artists and authors, and document the dynamic artistic and literary scenes of the immediate pre-and post-World War II period in the United States.
	www.getty.edu /research/conducting_research/finding_aids/manray_m4.html (133 words)

	Boulder man discovers letters from Truman
		Inside two large binders were several hundred typed or handwritten letters between the two friends, along with copies of legal documents drawn up by Burrus for Truman over the years.
		Hand-written or typed letters from Truman are not uncommon, since Truman was a prolific writer, said Liz Safly, a researcher at the Harry Truman Library in Independence.
		One of his favorite exchanges is letters, spaced over four years, from Truman to Burrus demanding he accept a $1,000 payment for legal services.
	www.rockypreps.com /news/0905harr6.shtml (893 words)

	Benjamin Franklin . World of Influence . Man of Letters \| PBS
		However, in the mid-1700s, a letter might take as long as fourteen days to make the 109-mile trip between the two cities.
		Letters were carried by friends, by slaves, by sea captains, and by other travelers.
		Sometimes, writers would make as many as five copies of a letter and send each by a different ship, hoping that at least one of the letters would arrive safely.
	www.pbs.org /benfranklin/l3_world_letters.html (548 words)

	Theater News - Tunes, Tomes, & Videos: Man of Letters -
		The Brustein of Letters to a Young Actor is every inch the critic, and his one-size-fits-all advice lacks the focus and the degree of empathy that make Rilke's letters touching, compelling, and emotionally rich.
		Letters to a Young Actor can be summed up as a lightning-paced tour around the American entertainment industry, with special attention to the stage.
		While Letters to a Young Actors is a valentine to the acting profession, Brustein can't avoid acknowledging that, for most newcomers, a performing career is a vale of tears.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/5763 (1572 words)

	Man arrested for letters to Benson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Authorities say MacDonald wrote dozens of letters to the governor, state legislators, local officials, Foster's Daily Democrat of Dover and other newspapers since last October, trying to draw attention to a zoning dispute with the town of Madbury.
		In more recent letters, the Vietnam veteran warned he would arm a militia to take over the state, though he often told police he did not intend to use violence.
		MacDonald, who earned the nickname "Tent Man" during a wetlands dispute with the town of Lee in which he was forced to remove a canopy from his property, volunteered to help the couple in court, though he is not an attorney.
	www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20030917/NH_008.htm (536 words)

	§7. His work on "The Gentleman’s Magazine" his real start as a man of letters. VIII. Johnson and Boswell. ...
		It was The Gentleman’s Magazine that gave Johnson his real start as a man of letters.
		But, as the editors of The Grub-street Journal complained in the preface to Memoirs of the Society of Grub-street (1737), their rival of The Gentleman’s Magazine took anything he fancied—news, letters, essays or verses—and printed as much or as little of them as he pleased.
		The earlier periodical had begun on a much higher literary level and remains a work of very great interest; but its fortunes were not watched over by a man of business.
	www.bartleby.com /220/0807.html (474 words)

	Matthew Arnold
		To deny such a conflict in man between a law of the spirit and a law of the members is simply to avert one's face from the facts and so to fall short of being completely positive and critical.
		Arnold always assumes a core of normal experience, a permanent self in man, and rates a writer according to the degree of his insight into this something that abides through all the flux of circumstance, or, as he himself would say, according to the depth and soundness of this writer's criticism of life.
		The contrast between the man who is positive according to both the human and the natural law and the man who is positive only according to the natural law comes out in his debate with Huxley on the rival claims of science and literature.
	www.nhinet.org /arnold.htm (3650 words)

	The Man of Letters as a Business Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		If the man of letters were wholly a business man this is what would happen; he would make his forty or fifty thousand dollars a year, and be able to consort with bank presidents, and railroad officials, and rich tradesmen, and other flowers of our plutocracy on equal terms.
		A man remains in a measure strange to himself as long as he lives, and the very sources of novelty in his work will be within himself; he can continue to give it freshness in no other way than by knowing himself better and better.
		After all, and in spite of my vaunting title, is the man of letters ever a business man? I suppose that, strictly speaking, he never is, except in those rare instances where, through need or choice, he is the publisher as well as the author of his books.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~drbr/howells_1.html (9990 words)

	Contemporary Review: Thackeray: man of letters.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Novelist William Makepeace Thackery's letters have been published through the efforts of Gordon Ray and Edgar Harden.
		Thackeray also wrote about his misfortunes such as economic deprivations, the difficulties of a becoming a prominent writer, his failing health and period of insanity suffered by his wife Isabella.
		Thackeray's letters were sometimes accompanied by his own illustrations and show his keen observations of society.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:16871067&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (159 words)

	Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters
		These letters complete the picture of Wilson the man, offering unguarded moments and flinty opinions that enrich our understanding of a complex and troubled personality.
		Arranged by correspondent and moving through the phases of his career, Edmund Wilson, the Man in Letters constitutes an exemplary autobiography cum cultural history.
		The writing itself is vintage Wilson—a blending of classical and conversational styles that stands as part of the modern American canon and is filled with the emotions and tastes of a master.
	www.ohiou.edu /oupress/edmundwilson.htm (346 words)

	Meet the man of letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Murthy, who is a regular contributor to the ‘letters to the editor’ column of most leading newspapers, uses his letters to inform those outside Mumbai about the latest happenings in the city.
		Some of the local problems in Chembur Murthy has highlighted through his letters are the problem of flooding in the NG Acharya Garden (Diamond Garden) during monsoon, drainage problem on 17th Road and political parties putting up banners illegally.
		For instance, his letter suggesting painting birds’ eyes on the noses of airplanes to prevent birds from banging into airplanes was discussed at in the Parliament.
	web.mid-day.com /metro/chembur/2004/february/77190.htm (592 words)

	Contemporary Review: The vanishing man of letters
		In its ultimate, and more restrictive sense, the Man of Letters is to be defined as one who lives and dies by literature-the bearded figure comfortably ensconced at his desk in the bow-window looking out over the lawn and the rhododendrons.
		The moral of this story is that the Man of Letters does not satisfactorily transplant to alien literary climes, and that it were healthier for him to eschew a life of nomadic adventurings.
		Himself a Man of Letters to his ink-stained finger-tips, he edited the short-lived Liverpool Argus, contributed mightily to the leading literary reviews of the day, and wrote three books, the best known of which was The Sonnet in England (1893).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2242/is_1651_283/ai_107897411 (1129 words)

	The Observer \| Comment \| A man of letters
		Last week it was revealed the BBC and Evans are in talks about a show to fill the slot of Cooke's Letter From America, which ran for 58 years.
		It was love at first sight for a young man coming from the austerity of post-war Britain.
		It read like an honest love letter to the country that (since 1993) he was by now a citizen of.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Observer/comment/story/0,6903,1484244,00.html (1691 words)

	Hemingway was a man of letters
		It won't be the first examination of Hemingway's letters, which the author once described as "often libelous, always indiscreet and often obscene." Two decades ago, biographer Carlos Baker published a volume containing about 600 letters.
		Selected letters have been the source of scholarly work, but those are thought to represent a tenth of Hemingway's correspondence.
		The project is expected to take several years, producing as many as a dozen volumes for scholars and a collection of selected letters for the general public.
	www.freep.com /entertainment/newsandreviews/heming5_20020505.htm (273 words)

	A Man of Letters (washingtonpost.com)
		Beginning in 1946, Cooke wrote and read aloud on the BBC his weekly "Letter From America," a form of radio broadcast that he invented.
		The "letter" was neither journalism nor reminiscence but rather a cross between the two.
		It is perhaps best described as a spoken version of the sort of essay that appears in a certain kind of British literary magazine: witty and erudite, filled with historical allusions and references to the writers' grand friends, sometimes surprisingly interesting and informative -- and sometimes, well, not.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A37700-2004Mar30.html (701 words)

	The Reporter -- A man of letters
		Their respective travels led to a robust round of letters, which Weintraub drew on for his recent book, Getting Started.
		We may imagine these writers as well established and middle-aged, Murray says, but in the letters "they're young writers, their fame is in no way guaranteed.
		One of Murray's favourite letters is from Richler in London.
	www.mcgill.ca /reporter/34/16/weintraub (819 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Complete Idiot Letters: One Man's Hilarious Assault on Corporate America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The fact that these companies respond (usually with an impersonal form letter) is the punch line of this book and this one-joke premise wears thin pretty quickly.
		Nancy's letters are both hilarious and outrageous, but they also always have just enough plausibility that his targets ignore them at their own peril.
		By contrast, Rosa tries to carry his book solely on the humor of his letters and, although there are many bright spots, he often fails in the attempt.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0895264048?v=glance (831 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Royal Mail chief becomes man of letters
		Public pressure for Royal Mail to raise its standards intensified after a television exposé of fraud and theft among staff, and a report from consumer group Postwatch showing that 14m pieces of mail are lost every year.
		The postal service is in the throes of a radical reorganisation which has already cut the number of deliveries in most parts of the country from two a day to one.
		He added that staff needed to be better trained if the renewal plan was to work, and in some areas the number of workers might need to be increased.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /unions/story/0,12189,1212238,00.html (460 words)

	JS Online: A man of letters gets his wish
		He was a letter writer almost as soon as he could string sentences together.
		But in his heart, he's always been a supreme letter writer, a reader of missives, a pen-wielding groupie whose joy is in a stamp or the mailman's (and the e-mail's) knock.
		IF LETTERS are a way to connect, the first novel, "The Dive from Clausen's Pier," is author Ann Packer's letter about the concept of home.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/books/reviews/apr02/36443.asp (696 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Ken's a man of letters
		Although, admittedly, in the areas of transport, crime, the environment, health and culture his impact is very much yet to be felt, I feel his critics overlook the remarkable contribution he has made, during this busy time in his life, to the newspaper letters pages.
		Other politicians may become too thick-skinned, busy, or idle to correct the little slights and errors that might so easily provide posterity with the wrong impression; little seems to be beneath the punctilious notice of the mayor of London.
		It is also important to point out, in another letter about gay partnerships, that "I will not be attending the ceremony at the Langham Hilton".
	www.guardian.co.uk /livingstone/article/0,2763,712299,00.html (308 words)

	USATODAY.com - Teen is a man of letters in the puzzle world (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		One timesaving strategy is to write the letter "E" as a small "e." The capital letter takes three strokes to complete, while a small "e" can be done in a single loop, saving precious time.
		He's dubbed "The Ice Man" because of his cold methodical technique of starting at 1 across in the top left corner and not stopping until he makes his way to the bottom right.
		Last year's winner was Ellen Ripstein of Manhattan, who had lost so many times — she has competed 24 years, finishing in the top three 12 times — she was dubbed the "Susan Lucci of crosswords," after the perennial soap opera Emmy loser.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2002/2002-03-13-crossword.htm (1065 words)

	How Does this Man Know “Letters”? : Christian Courier
		There was a crippled man positioned near the Pool of Bethesda, having been in that pitiful state for 38 years.
		There was a great stirring of the crowds as Jesus was the “hot” topic of conversation, some acknowledging that he was a “good man,” while others denied it, charging that he was leading the people astray.
		The word grammata literally does mean “letters,” but the term, in certain contexts, is employed to suggest the idea of one who is “literate,” i.e., one who possesses educational skill.
	www.christiancourier.com /questions/howDoesHeKnowLetters.htm (828 words)

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