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"Night letter" Quotes from Famous Books

... tell me all about her old friend Montresor? Here, read my mother's night letter to me." And Kenneth placed the yellow ...

— Polly and Eleanor • Lillian Elizabeth Roy

... table and I would send it to you to look at only I wouldn't take no chances of looseing it and I don't mean you wouldn't be carefull of it Al but of course the mail has got to go across the old pond and if the Dutchmens periscoped the boat the letter was on it it would be good night letter and a letter like this here is something to be proud of and hold onto it and keep it for little Al till he grows up big enough to appreciate it. But they's nothing to prevent me from copping down the letter so as you can read what it says and ...

— The Real Dope • Ring Lardner

... the conditions which accounts for the growing use of the telegraph. Another is to be found in the recognition of the convenience of the night letter and day letter. This has brought about a considerable increase in the volume of family and social correspondence by telegraph, which will grow to very much greater proportions as experience demonstrates its value. In business life the night letter and day letter have likewise ...

— Masters of Space - Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty • Walter Kellogg Towers