Some adjectives, like dorogoy/dorogaya (dear), can be used in both formal and informal letters.

Throughout 23 informal letters, Shelley describes her travels from Prague to southern Italy.

But best of all was an informal letter in February from Bucknell, Reuben's first choice, weeks ahead of the usual mailing.

However, an informal letter of confidence organised by his supporters in February 2006 attracted around 50 signatories from Members of Congregation.

If their identity can be discovered then a friendly, informal letter should be written to them explaining who you are acting for and why their help is needed.

"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" (thus incorporating two greetings) was in an informal letter written by an English admiral in 1699.

The cut in public space on Piers 92 and 94, for example, came after an informal letter of agreement between the city and the state, with no outside review, he said.

Mr. Berman alluded to the rumors himself in an informal letter he sent to State House reporters a few minutes after Mr. Florio announced his resignation.

The one I have chosen is this - brief, informal letters, written from time to time as our work proceeds, in a plain, straightforward style, as it might be to a friend.

Working at first through informal letters of agreement, the affiliates provided medical services at a city hospital and thousands of residents who work for about one-seventh the cost of fully trained doctors.

The book is written as a combination of traditional third person narrative and epistolary novel through a series of informal letters written by the protagonist to CNN personality Larry King.

In an informal letter in 1998, Dr. Robert Stockman, the coordinator of the Research Office of the US Bahá'í National Center wrote:

Arguments centred on what had been agreed about rights to the "NSU" name and, in particular, whether an arguably informal letter dated 5th January 1929 on the subject had long-standing contractual force.

Butchers told to take care INFORMAL letters have been sent to butchers by Montgomeryshire District Council's public health department drawing attention to the need for protective equipment in shops.

By and large, these unusual scholarships are holdovers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, education officials said, when benefactors endowed scholarships through a will or an informal letter, setting terms that have not always kept pace with the times.

Reagan issued an informal letter of opposition to the initiative, answered reporters' questions about the initiative by saying he was against, and, a week before the election, wrote an editorial in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner opposing it.

But Paul Schachter, Dr. Hut's lawyer, said the federal Older Workers Protection Act says that such contracts must be in the form that Dr. Hut signed last year, and not as informal letters.

Signet and secretary could be used for sending relatively informal letters to the King's subjects or for activating other parts of the executive machine: the Signet Office was the instrument most often used for disseminating the King's personal commands.

The long, informal letters he wrote to members of his family during these visits constituted a diary and are held as the "Dominions Royal Commission diary letters" by Cambridge University Library (Royal Commonwealth Society Library).