In response to recent criticism, Equatorial Guinea's ambassador to the United Nations wrote to the New York Times.

(A former ambassador once wrote a guide to the best places in the United Nations to nap.)

Another ambassador, Tiepolo, wrote in 1563 that everyone is afraid of its authority, which has absolute power over property, life, honor and even the souls of men.

On June 4, the ambassador wrote to his brother again, saying: "Monsieur de Lavaur came to see me, but has gone away again".

When the ambassador writes home to his wife that perhaps he's "getting old enough now so that not even work interests me.

The French ambassador wrote home that Paris was about to lose all its influence in London.

"The President's choice met with incredulity," wrote the French ambassador in Berlin.

The Egyptian ambassador wrote several angry letters to the newspapers criticizing Marshall Hall's blackening of the victim and Egyptians in general.

At this time, on 6 June, the new Spanish ambassador de Quadra wrote that her health had improved, but that she was careful with her food.

How many ambassadors today could write such a document?