It took two weeks for Seamans to reply to Houbolt's extraordinary letter.

He added, "I think it is an extraordinary letter."

But the fact was, this was an extraordinary letter, unlike any she had ever received.

In an extraordinary letter, he told them to speed up signing off the eurozone's ramped-up rescue fund so that it was operational "very soon".

A few days later I received this extraordinary letter.

"It is certainly an extraordinary letter," he said, "what does he mean by the portrait?"

Then, three days after Christmas, Jefferson took up his pen to write an extraordinary letter to Adams.

This extraordinary letter puzzled me not a little.

How about three extraordinary letters of recommendation from people the employer knows or respects?

Then he finds an extraordinary letter from the south of France: "For God's sake, come!"