During this period he wrote a series of witty and informative letters to Cicero, who was serving as proconsul of Cilicia at the time.

Although disenchanted with the human world, he turned his misanthropic gloom to good account in witty and self-deprecatory letters.

Words flowed from him in effervescent abundance, ranging from lengthy essays, autobiographical fragments and provocative tirades to witty or angry letters to magazines or newspapers.

Duke University President Terry Stanford agrees, sending the students a letter asking them to change the obscene cheers into, "wholesome, witty, and forceful."

Write me a witty letter with good news of the mistress.

She wrote to him every week her direct, rather witty letters.

Against the odds, Child's outsize personality and charm shine through, in large part via the witty, incisive letters of her husband, a fascinating man with great literary flair.

She closed her AOL e-mail account, on which she had been sending witty, vicious letters to various college friends, and called up the paper's in-house library.

Although he never married, he had many female friends to whom he wrote witty letters.

The witty enigmatic letter describing this incident, preserved in the Talmud (Yer.