French letter

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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)

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

She proved to be La Sybille, a French letter of marque, carrying eight guns, twenty-five men, and bound for the French West India Islands with a valuable cargo.

From True Blue by Kingston, William Henry Giles

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