The phrase "a footnote from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific footnote that provides additional information or clarification related to a text or citation.
Example: "In the article, the author includes a footnote from the original source that explains the context of the data presented."
Alternatives: "a note from" or "a reference from".
A footnote from Derek Marlowe: "With Tom, words always precede thoughts.
Like a story adept who could offer a footnote from France's most recnt was against Algeria, he said that if he spoke so definitely of the American necessity to create peace in Bietnam, it was because in Algria that the French had taken the task of peacemaking themselves.
His wife Mary remembers 'his waking me one night, coming and sitting on my bed, and reading a footnote from John Findlay's article on time, and saying he thought one could make a formalised tense logic'.
"While there is no irrefutable proof that Laurens and Hamilton were lovers," there is "sufficient circumstantial evidence to render indefensible any unqualified pronouncement that they were not," Godbeer quotes, in a footnote, from William Benemann's Male-Male Intimacy in Early America: Beyond Romantic Friendships.
The whole episode could have been a footnote from Kundnani's excellent book The Muslims Are Coming! (Verso) – a radical critique of the west's wilful misinterpretations of jihadist motivations and violence, and the different forms of anti-Muslim hysteria generated as a result.
The whole episode could have been a footnote from Kundnani's excellent book The Muslims Are Coming! (Verso)—a radical critique of the west's willful misinterpretations of jihadist motivations and violence, and the different forms of anti-Muslim hysteria generated as a result.
A similar footnote from Scott appears on Sharp's letter defending the actions of Mary Richardson who vandalised Velazquez's Rokeby Venus painting in the National Gallery in March 1914.
But they did remind me of a historical footnote from the 1970s when conservation pioneer Sir Peter Scott became involved in efforts to scour the loch for a Nessie-like creature.
The limitations of biographical writing are never more evident than when one turns from it to writing in another genre; and when, led by a footnote, I turned from the text of "Bitter Fame" to Dido Merwin's memoir I felt as if I had been freed from prison.
Then he offered a footnote, literally, one from his book "Diversity in America".
The list of omissions is very long, and Rushkoff acknowledges, in a footnote, that thinkers from Aristotle to Lewis Mumford mined the same intellectual terrain.
