Occasionally, spurious letters are consciously inserted in spelling.

The letters of each pope are preceded by a historical introduction and furnished with copious notes, while the spurious letters are collected in the appendix.

Diogenes Laërtius preserves a number of spurious letters between Epimenides and Solon in his Lives of the Philosophers.

Diogenes Laërtius quotes from an undoubtedly spurious letter from Lysis to Hippasus as an authority for some statements concerning Damo.

A spurious letter to Marius Fatin from the "International League of Antiquarian Booksellers" dated 2 July 1966.

But it also bore a spurious telegram of endorsement from Mr. le Carre, along with an equally spurious letter of endorsement from Mr. Wambaugh.

It has been suggested that the compiler of the Apostolic Constitutions may be the same person as the author of the six spurious letters of St. Ignatius (Pseudo-Ignatius).

Not long after his transfer to Lima, the first spurious letters written in his name were sent to Rome, charging Cardinal Landázuri Ricketts and an auxiliary bishop with immorality.

The Confederate lords opened it, and found inside the three genuine or spurious letters that we have quoted, the marriage contract of Mary and Bothwell, and twelve poems in the queen's handwriting.

Some spurious letters bear the name of Severus; also in a MS. at Madrid is a work falsely professing to be an epitome of the Chronicle of Severus, and going down to 511.

His spurious Letters of the Late Lord Lyttelton (1780) imposed on many of his contemporaries, and as late as 1851, a writer in the Quarterly Review regarded these letters as authentic, basing upon them a claim that Lyttelton was "Junius."

His scholarly achievements remain considerable - his work in sorting out the genuine from the spurious letters of Ignatius was a milestone in the study of that important early-church father; and his pioneering gathering of sources relating to early Irish church history laid the foundation for much subsequent research.

One of the spurious letters attributed to Hippocrates is addressed to Thessalus, and there is an oration, Presbeutikos, supposedly spoken by Thessalus to the Athenians, in which he implores them not to continue the war against Cos, his native country, but this is also undoubtedly spurious.