After Seneca, the next most noted of the ancient letter writers was Pliny the younger.

An unspeakably ancient letter from home mentioned your spending a summer up there on Cape Cod?

She is my neighbor, six miles away, now, and I must ask her about this ancient letter.

The original, in "very ancient letter," was extant in the archives of that noble house in Quintanilla's time, and is often cited by him.

We have thus traced back the forms of eighteen of the ancient letters to the Maya alphabet.

Then they all examined the Decalogue over the altar, written in the ancient letters, and done in England in 1714.

"There used to be a vast collection of ancient letters and other documents in the tower of the Old South Church," answered Grandfather.