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Letters from Norway
Letters from Norway (Pisma iz Norveške, Писма из Норвешке) is a 1914 travelogue by the Serbian writer Isidora Sekulić, drawn from her 1912 journey from Oslo to Finnmark.
Letters of a Javanese Princess
Letters of a Javanese Princess is the English translation of letters by Raden Adjeng Kartini, a Javanese advocate for women's education in the Dutch East Indies.
Letters of a Russian Traveler
Letters of a Russian Traveler (Письма русского путешественника) is a semi-fictional travelogue by Nikolai Karamzin, published in 1791–1792 and based on his 1789–1790 journey through Europe.
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise are a twelfth-century Latin correspondence between philosopher Peter Abelard and Heloise, abbess of the Paraclete, best known as documents of early romantic love.
Letters of administration
Letters of administration are a probate court order appointing an administrator to collect assets, pay debts, and distribute a deceased person's estate when no will exists.
Letters of Afonso I of Kongo
The Letters of Afonso I of Kongo (Mensagens de Afonso I) are diplomatic letters by King Afonso I to Portugal's kings, best known for opposing the slave trade in 1526.
Letters of Anton Chekhov
The Letters of Anton Chekhov (Письма А. П. Чехова) are the surviving correspondence of the Russian writer, about 4,400 letters written from 1875 to 1904.
Letters of Grigor Magistros
The Letters of Grigor Magistros (Armenian: Tʿłtʿer) are a collection of about 88 Classical Armenian letters by Grigor Magistros Pahlawuni, an eleventh-century Armenian prince and Byzantine official.
Letters of Kemal-ud-Dowleh
Letters of Kemal-ud-Dowleh (Kəmalüddövlə məktubları) is a philosophical and artistic work by the Azerbaijani writer Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, written in 1865, addressing religion and despotic rule in Iran.
Letters of last resort
Letters of last resort are four handwritten orders each UK prime minister places in safes aboard the four Trident submarines, directing retaliation if the government is destroyed. Options: retaliate, do not retaliate, commander's judgement, or allied command.
Letters on the Good and the Beautiful
Letters on the Good and the Beautiful (Письма о добром и прекрасном) is a 1985 book of moral essays by Russian scholar Dmitry Likhachev, written as letters to young readers.
Letters patent
Letters patent (litterae patentes, open letters) are public legal documents issued under the Great Seal, historically granting lands, offices, titles and monopolies, and still used in the UK for appointments, honours and Royal Assent; the invention patent descends from them via the 1624 Statute of Monopolies.
Letters to Atticus
Letters to Atticus, or Epistulae ad Atticum, is the largest surviving collection of Cicero's correspondence, written to his close friend Atticus until Cicero's death in 43 BC.
Letters to Cleo
Letters to Cleo: Boston alternative rock/power pop band formed 1990 by Greg McKenna and Kay Hanley, named for her childhood pen pal; known for "Here & Now" (1993), Melrose Place and 10 Things I Hate About You soundtracks, three Giant Records albums, 2000 breakup, and reunions since 2007.
Letters to Juliet
Letters to Juliet is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama directed by Gary Winick, starring Amanda Seyfried and Vanessa Redgrave, about answering a 1957 letter left at Verona's Juliet wall; Summit Entertainment released it May 14, 2010, grossing $53.0M in the US.
Letters to Martha
Letters to Martha: And Other Poems from a South African Prison is a 1968 poetry collection by Dennis Brutus, written during and after his imprisonment on Robben Island under apartheid.
Letters to Olga
Letters to Olga (Dopisy Olze) is a book by Václav Havel collecting the letters he wrote to his wife from Czechoslovak prison between 1979 and 1982.
Letters to the Dead
Letters to the Dead are ancient Egyptian petitions written to recently deceased relatives, asking their help with illness, inheritance disputes, or the birth of an heir.
Lettice Knollys
Lettice Knollys (1543–1634), Countess of Essex and Leicester, English courtier and kinswoman of Elizabeth I, secretly married Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, in 1578, was banished from court as the 'She-Wolf', and mothered the executed Earl of Essex.
Letto
Letto is an Indonesian pop-rock band formed in Yogyakarta in April 2004, known for its 2005 debut album Truth, Cry, and Lie and hits like 'Ruang Rindu'.
Lettres de cachet
Lettres de cachet: sealed royal letters of Ancien Régime France, signed by the king and countersigned by a secretary of state, ordering imprisonment, exile, or internment without trial; abolished March 1790.
Lettrism
Lettrism is an avant-garde movement founded by Isidore Isou in Paris in the mid-1940s, treating letters as raw creative material in poetry, art, and music.
Lettuce
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa), an Asteraceae leafy annual vegetable; types include iceberg, butterhead, romaine, looseleaf, and celtuce. Domesticated in the Caucasus around 4,000 BC; cool-season crop prone to bolting and tipburn.
Lettuce downy mildew
Lettuce downy mildew is a major worldwide lettuce disease caused by the oomycete Bremia lactucae, which produces angular leaf lesions, white sporulation, and yield losses up to 80%.
Lettuce mosaic virus
Lettuce mosaic virus (LMV, Potyvirus lactucae), a Potyviridae plant virus first described in Florida in 1920, is seedborne and aphid-transmitted nonpersistently, causing stunting and mosaic in lettuce; controlled by zero-in-30,000 certified seed and mo1 eIF4E resistance.
Letzigrund
Letzigrund (Stadion Letzigrund) is Zurich's multifunctional stadium, opened 2007 on a 1925 site, home to FC Zürich and Grasshopper Club Zürich, venue of Weltklasse Zürich athletics and Switzerland's largest concert venue at over 50,000 capacity.
Leu Tropical Surf School
Leu Tropical Surf School (LTST) is the surf school of the Leu Tropical Surf Team club in Saint-Leu, Réunion, founded 1989, teaching on the Gauche de Saint-Leu inside a shark-risk ZONEX with its Water Patrol; security operations passed to RESSAC in 2025.
Leu-Enkephalin
Leu-enkephalin, also known as [Leu⁵]enkephalin or leucine-enkephalin, is an endogenous opioid pentapeptide with the sequence Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu that acts mainly at delta-opioid receptors and was discovered in pig brain in 1975.
Leucaena
Leucaena (lead tree, ipil-ipil) is a Fabaceae genus of about 25 unarmed, bipinnate-leaved trees and shrubs native from the southern USA to Peru; L. leucocephala is a major tropical fodder tree containing toxic mimosine and listed among the world's worst invasive species.
Leucaena leucocephala
Leucaena leucocephala, white popinac, ipil-ipil, or subabul, is a nitrogen-fixing tropical legume tree native to Mexico and Central America, grown for fodder and fuelwood but listed among the 100 worst invasive alien species; its toxic amino acid mimosine limits use as animal feed.