"I send herewith unto His Majesty the strangest piece of news," it reads, "that he has ever yet received from any part of the world," for a "mathematical professor at Padua" had "overthrown all former astronomy".
In the letter accompanying the Voynich manuscript, Marci describes his late friend's obsession with cracking the script: "To its deciphering he devoted unflagging toil, as is apparent from attempts of his which I send you herewith, and he relinquished hope only with his life".
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Subjects were then sent a comprehensive questionnaire (herewith called the "TTT survey"; see Additional file 2) by e-mail (preferred and predominant method), fax, or post and requested to return the completed questionnaire within six weeks.
But there was a bombshell in his letter, the announcement of a fait accompli: "I send you herewith a set of corrected galleys of Camus's L'Étranger, which we have decided to call The Outsider, both because we consider this a more striking and appropriate title than The Stranger, and because Hutchinson's recently called one of their Russian novels The Stranger".
Herewith, based on the first batch of songs you sent us to listen to, some reasonable proposals.
Herewith, a sampling: * "War!
Herewith, my 2001 wish list.
Herewith, I level my complaint.
Herewith, four urban pastorals.
Herewith, an exclusive video.
