Ramanujan might have died in complete obscurity if he had not written a series of desperate, bold letters to English mathematicians in 1912 and 1913.

Jaccoud had written her many desperate letters to convince her to stay with him.

There have been about half a dozen desperate letters over the years.

The city council sent desperate letters to Jagiello who was however unable to help.

He said she had nightmares about her sons and was writing them desperate letters and talking to their pictures.

And she, too, was drawn back to the region in 1999 by a desperate letter from her closest friend who was living under the Taliban regime.

In desperate letters to their husbands, these heroines express their desire for one blessing: a cow.

It was Tess's last letter, short and desperate:

Many years later, when they are both old and frail, he begins receiving desperate letters from her, begging him to come to her aid.

From Preveza he sent desperate letters to friends and relatives describing the misery he felt in the town.