Letter 11
3Rd April, 2008
Dear Dr. Samsonov,
I feel so sorry I kept you waiting so long for my letter. I must apologize for not sending you the article earlier. Unfortunately I ran out of my supply and had to make another order for them.
It gives me great pleasure to send you the article. I hope you will find it helpful in your experiment. As soon as you have the final results, I shall be grateful if you send them to me.
I am looking forward to hearing from you soon.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
Edward Crawley
Letter 12
June 10, 2005
Dear Dr. James:
It was a great pleasure to receive your letter of June 8 and to find enclosed the material I was so eager to have for my work. The information is indeed essential importance to me. I realize it took you some time to collect it and I do appreciate it immensely.
Will you please accept my apologies for the trouble I have caused you and allow me to express my gratitude to you once again for giving your kind consideration to my inquiry. If I can help you in some way or other, do not hesitate to write to me.
With best regards,
Sincerely yours,
Alexander Sanders
Letter 13
23rd August, 2007
Dear Dr. Yudina,
I have the pleasure of extending to you an invitation to come and spend 3 months in Oxford towards the end of 2007. You are certainly welcome to work in our laboratory. We are quite well equipped with up-to-date facilities to collaborate with you on the study of…
I have been familiar with your work for many years and it would be exceptionally interesting and fruitful to discuss biophysics with you.
Please inform us whether you are in a position to come to Oxford towards the end of the year. If not, then let us know what period would be most convenient for you so as to extend an official invitation to you, I assume you will have a grant to cover your living expenses in Oxford.
With kind regards,
Yours sincerely,
John McKinley
Letter 14
12th November, 2003
Dear Colleague,
Our institute is running a series of experiments on… According to our preliminary data we came to the conclusion that…
Professor L. of the Institute of …was kind to inform me of the results of the work carried out in his laboratory. He also mentioned that you were experimenting on…
I would like very much to compare our data with those obtained by you. Would you be willing to inform me what considerations led you to choose … and how satisfactory it proved to be.
I am especially interested in the answer to the following questions:
1. …
2. …
3. …
I shall appreciate any information you can find possible to supply me with and look forward to the opportunity of returning the service.
Thank you in advance for a favourable reply to my inquiry.
Yours sincerely,
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Letter 15
24th November, 2003
Dear Colleague,
Replying to your inquiry of 12th November regarding…, I am very glad to learn that you are also experimenting in… It gives me great pleasure to send you what data I have on hand.
We chose … for several reasons:
…
…
…
I hope you find this information of use to you.
If I can be of any further assistance, please do not hesitate to write me.
In return I would much appreciate it if you would send me your article “…”.
With best wishes,
Yours sincerely,
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