missive

Preposition: from

reader: The granting of a charter of incorporation has resulted in this missive from a reader.

Converse of object

• conclude: The claimants concluded missives for the new premises in December 1993.
• send: Sending lonely missives to a center where they will hardly be received, let alone understood.
• write: It is Christmas Eve and I am in my study writing this final missive before starting Christmas with my family.
• read: No-one is suggesting that you neglect women in order to read the latest missive from the Department of Health.
• include: In Scotland a lease includes missives of let that are not to be completed by the grant of a new lease.
• complete: Candidates must be able to handle their own caseload from start to finish including noting title and completing missives.

Adjective modifier

• late: Anyway, here's their latest missive... A city on the move: Bring back bus conductors.
• last: The woes I recounted to you in my last missive have been soothed by a letter from the Lady Marion.
• little: Quite why he felt unable to openly declare this interest in his little missive I would not presume to speculate.
• standard: Are the existing standard Missives for sublets which provide a right to compensation for a sub-tenant a disincentive to sub-letting?
• regular: At one point we got regular missives from the TV licensing heavy mob.
• recent: John Meredith FRICS has some interesting insights into the recent missive from the Council of Mortgage Lenders to surveyors.

Noun used with modifier

style: Just sending out Oxbridge style missives, that seem, at best, condescending, and at worse, attacking.