The phrase "authorized letter" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a letter that has been officially approved or sanctioned by a person or organization.
Example: "Please ensure that the authorized letter is sent to the client before the end of the day."
Alternatives: "official letter" or "certified letter".
The cardinal compounded the controversy last week when he said at a conference in Spain that Pope John Paul II had authorized the letter and told him to send it to bishops around the world.
He has not commented on the letter, but an unnamed aide to the former BBC chief was quoted in a New York Times article last week as saying that while Mr. Thompson had orally authorized the letter, he had not known the details of its contents.
The decision by Judge Victor Marrero struck down 2006 revisions to the Patriot Act that expanded the bureau's power to use national security letters, and a 1986 law that first authorized such letters.
We later learned that the governor's office did not authorize the letter and disavowed it.
But Dayne told a club spokesman yesterday that he did not want to be traded, and that he did not authorize the letter.
Dayne subsequently told Roper that he did not authorize the letter, that he did not want to be traded and that there had been a miscommunication between him and his agent.
When asked earlier this month for a comment on Lavenstein's letter, Dayne said that he wanted to stay with the Giants, that he had not authorized Lavenstein's letter or had known anything about it.
But I am just asking you, as I understand it - am I correct, Mr. President, that the letter that you are looking at there from John Poindexter dated July 21 , 1986 you, yourself, actually did not approve and authorize those letters at the time that they were sent; is that correct? A. I have no recollection of doing so. A. But that could be my memory.
The only clue to exactly who is authorized are the letters AWM.
But some battles with the Beckett estate were clearly lost along the way, thus this is an authorized book of letters, "selected" rather than "collected".
