French letter

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The precise wording of the French letter isn't the issue.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This evening I was late writing a French letter by my Lord's order to Monsieur Wragh, Ambassador de Denmarke à la Haye, which my Lord signed in bed. 23d.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter

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

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