Hans Blix, the executive chairman of the inspection team, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, known as Unmovic, drafted a reply to the Iraqis yesterday.
"I want to say 'no', but feel that the right thing is to say 'yes', so I am frozen and then I plan on going back to the e-mail to draft a reply, but it gets buried," she said.
He helped Mr Dyke draft a reply to Alastair Campbell's complaint about Andrew Gilligan's ill-fated radio broadcast last May, and was involved in orchestrating the BBC defence during the hearings.
By the mid-1830s he was publishing short pieces in both prose and verse in magazines, and in 1836 he was provoked into drafting a reply (unpublished) to an attack on Turner's painting by the art critic of Blackwood's Magazine.
The 64-year-old described how he had been almost overwhelmed by tributes this week, saying he had so far been unable to respond to most of the messages of congratulations because every time he starts drafting a reply on his phone he is interrupted by several new texts.
Lincoln drafted a reply indicating that whatever policy was adopted, "I must do it", though he never sent it, but met with Seward instead, and what passed between them is not known.
Draft a reply brief, if permitted.
Portes had drafted a dismissive reply.
The secretary is still trying to draft a suitable reply.
Overruling some of his angrier aides, he drafted a temperate reply to Nixon's letter, noting that it gave him "serious difficulty".
