Letters were sent to Edinburgh and answers returned in six days.
If messages or letters were sent by special messengers, their payment entailed additional expense upon the state and the use of such messengers, when regular postmen were available, was strongly discouraged.
Letters were to be carried to and from important places at some distance from the main roads by post-horses.
The rates for parcels fixed in 1762 were maintained, and new and higher rates for letters were introduced.
Letters were not, however, sent exclusively by the King's post.
At others, indeed, letters were delivered, but only by virtue of a private arrangement and on payment of a gratuity of 2d.
And finally, with certain specified exceptions, no letters wereto be carried or delivered in any part where posts should be established except by such persons as Witherings might appoint.
For the halfpenny post, again, letters were collected by the sound of bell.
No letters were to be sent except through the post, and notice to this effect was to be served upon all the merchants of the city of London, "both strangers and others.
Letters were at once written to the leading editors asking them to publish articles on the subject.
Letters were written by Matilda Ashurst Biggs, and afterwards by two or three women in different parts of the country, offering to become members.
Letters were addressed to her from various sections of the State, urging immediate action.
At the suggestion of Miss Clay, letters were sent to all members of Congress urging their effort to include women as electors in the bill providing for the direct election of U.
Letters were sent in every direction, friends stirred up, reminded of their task and requested to send names of others who would work.
Letters were sent to 200 leading politicians of different parties giving reasons why such action should be taken and asking for their co-operation.
After the nominations for the Legislature had been made, letters were written to candidates of all parties to ascertain their attitude toward the Municipal Suffrage Bill.
Letters were sent to every town, with postal cards inclosed for reply, to find who were friends of suffrage, and to those so found a letter was sent asking co-operation.
Letters were written, pathetic scrawls many of them.
No tract was ever sent to me, and myletters were answered--after a time.
My letters were answered a fortnight or so after they were received.
My letters were open to her inspection, and I was sometimes honoured with a few complimentary lines under her own hand.
It was likewise easily inferred that the letters were secreted in the cedar chest or in some other part of the room.
Letters were generally in the form of rolls, round a stick, or, if a long letter, round two sticks, beginning at each end and rolling them until they met in the middle.
The evil of high rates led not merely to small returns, but to the evasion of postage by illicit means of conveyance, so that some carriers of letters weredoing as large a business as the post-office itself.
Letters were opened by a sort of steaming process, read and their contents noted, carefully sealed again, and delivered to the person to whom they were directed.
Letters were carried in baskets, in bags, in sacks, and poured out like water.
Letters were conveyed by common carriers at the rate, probably, of three or four miles an hour.
Letters were heaped on the tables and strewed on the floors.
As soon as the Federal Amendment passed, letters were sent to legislators asking them to agree to a call for a special session.
In 1909, at the request of the National Association, letters were written to Georgia's Senators and Representatives in Congress, asking them to vote for a Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment.
In 1910 letters were written to President Taft, to the members of Congress from Georgia and to Governor "Joe" Brown, as requested by Dr.
Lee's letters were written on the 29th and 30th of June.
The rates of postage on letters were, according to present day standards, exorbitant.
Letters were single, double, and treble, and ounce.
If letters were found in his possession, he suffered the legal penalties as the smuggler does to-day.
Letters were sent to the Fourteenth in Britain and to the First in Spain,[423] since both these legions had stood for Otho against Vitellius.
Letters were written to all the armies and their generals with instructions that they should try to win over those of the Guards who were hostile to Vitellius by promising them renewal of service.
In order to make their march across into Italy safe and effective, 5 letters were sent to Aponius Saturninus[17] to bring the Moesian army up as quickly as possible.
Letters were written to the Treviri in the name of All Gaul, bidding them cease hostilities, suggesting, however, that pardon might be obtained, and that many were ready to plead their cause if they showed repentance.
Last year considerably over two millions of letters were returned to their writers through the Dead-Letter Office from failures in the attempts to deliver them.
Thus, Colonel Maberly argued, that if the postage of letters were reduced to a penny it would not stop smuggling: in which case they might as well have smuggling under the one system as the other.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "letters were" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
