Another story goes that it came from a letter-writer to The Times or Daily Telegraph.

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He was a prodigious letter-writer, a fact of which Mr MacDonogh, in particular, has taken full advantage.

ECONOMIST: Historical biography

The attorney described Llamas as a prolific letter writer to members of Congress.

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Good penmanship was a rare skill in the provinces, and Liu perfected his hand, becoming a trusted letter writer for bosses with limited education.

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In January of 2002, Canadian novelist Howard Engel sent the writer a letter about his experience with alexia sine agraphia, a form of visual agnosia which results in an inability to recognize written language.

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In the early 1970s, he not only provided housing for the dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn for four years but also wrote a letter that circulated in the West protesting Soviet treatment of the author.

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The letter writer claimed he was terminated after he reported excessive force by a fellow officer.

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