Beaver Bonspiel X Round 2
Packet by Harvard

Tossups

1.  The inspirations behind "The Marketplace at Limoges" and "The Old Castle" have never been found, "The Gnome" was inspired by a design for a toy nutcracker, and only "The Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks," "The Hut of Baba Yaga," and "The Great Gate of Kiev" appeared at the titular event.  For ten points, name this work orchestrated by Maurice Ravel that was inspired by paintings of the artist Victor Hartmann and was composed by Modest Mussorgsky. 
	Answer: Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vystavki)

2.  Due partly to a confession by Celestino Madeiros of the Morelli gang, many historians now believe that the shoemaker was guilty and the fish-monger was innocent, but that the evidence was insufficient to have convicted either one.  In 1977, 50 years after their executions, Michael Dukakis signed a decree clearing their names.  For ten points, name these two anarchists who were convicted of the 1920 robbery and murder of two men in Massachusetts.
	Answer: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

3.  In this laboratory method, a compound is vaporized in a vacuum and bombarded with an electron beam of high energy, typically 70 electron-volts.  Since that energy is much greater than the energies of chemical bonds, electrons are expelled from the molecule and a radical cation is formed which then decomposes to form various fragments.  These fragments are separated according to their mass-to-charge ratio.  For ten points, name this type of spectroscopy which is used determine the molecular mass and structure of an unknown compound.
	Answer: mass spectroscopy (or mass spectrometry)

4.  The plaintiff in this case violated Presidential Executive Order 9066 and U.S. Army Civilian Exclusion Order No. 34 by remaining in his San Leandro, California, home. FTP, name this 1944 case in which Justice Black argued that compulsory exclusion was allowed in times of great peril and which justified the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
	 Answer: Korematsu v U.S.

5.  Born in Bukara, he did his most famous work in the court of Shams ad-Dawlah. He maintained that the multiplication of beings results from God's own self-knowledge in his vast book Kitab ash-Shifa or Book of Healing. FTP, name this influential Muslim philosopher and scientist who in his The Canon of Medicine systematically compiled Greek and Arabic medical knowledge.
	Answer: Avicenna   (Abu 'ali Al-husayn ibn 'Abd Allah Ibn Sina)

6.  It is rumored that its author was a spy and a convicted rapist, and it is known that this work was written while its author was in prison. Its first publisher, William Caxton, substantially rearranged the work from eight separate romances into many chapters. FTP, name this only work of Thomas Malory, the authoritative account of Arthurian legend.
	Answer: Le Morte d’Arthur

7.  Under the pseudonym Esdras Barnivelt, the author wrote a "key" to this poem, interpreting it as an allegory for the Treaty of the Barriers, but the poem is in fact based on a minor feud between the families of Lord Petre and Arabella Fermor. FTP, name this mock epic in which a card game is described like a battle and there is a journey to the Cave of Spleen, centering on the theft of a piece of Belinda's hair and written by Alexander Pope.	
	Answer: The Rape of the Lock

8.  Large deposits of uranium and gold were discovered here in the 1970s and 1980s but have not been heavily exploited due to climactic and ecological issues, and it has almost no arable land since two-thirds of it is covered by glaciers. In a 1979 referendum, the citizens gained home rule and changed the capital, which had been Godthaab. FTP, name this island, with new capital Nuuk, a dependency of Denmark and the largest island in the world.
	Answer: Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat)

9. He excels at playing the slide whistle and taking pies in the face. Other than that, not much is known about him, except that he has a fascination with bones, which may explain why he usually wears one. He received his job after his predecessor tried to frame his boss for robbing a convenience store. FTP, name this longtime sidekick of Krusty the Klown on The Simpsons.
	Answer: Sideshow Mel
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10.  For a Riemannian manifold, it is found by comparing the volume of a large ball in the manifold's universal cover to that of a ball in Euclidean space with the same radius, while for a random variable it is a sum of terms of form "p times log base 2 of p" where p is the probability of the variable being in a given state.  In thermodynamics, it can be defined as either the Boltzmann constant times the natural log of the number of microstates of the system, or as the reversible heat flow over the temperature.  For ten points, name this quantity, which is positive for combustion and negative for freezing, and which will always increase according to the second law of thermodynamics.
	Answer: entropy

11. The extinction of the Dodo bird on the island of Mauritius, Malcolm X’s stint as a towel boy at a Cambridge night club, the eradication of the Herero people by the German government in Southwest Africa, the discovery of the molecular structure of benzene, the music of Rossini, Beethoven, and Wagner, and the poetry of Leopoldo Lugones and Rainer Maria Rilke are all touched upon in, FTP, what massive 1973 novel by Thomas Pynchon which chronicles the search for a rocket capable of bringing about the apocalypse during World War II?
	Answer: Gravity's Rainbow

12. According to this artist, “Since the age of the cave-dwellers, art has done nothing but degenerate.”  As a result, this painter's works involved simple linear or globular shapes that float on the canvas as on the walls of a cave, as in Personalities, Nocturne, The Carnival of the Harlequin, and the slightly more conventional The Farm.  FTP, name this Catalonian surrealist.
	Answer: Joan Miro

13.  Found in the capital of the Champagne region in northeastern France, this church is renowned for its Western facade, which includes two symmetric towers, an immense rose window, and stained glass where the tympana of its three entrance doors would normally be located.  It is perhaps most famous, though, for being the site of the coronation of 25 French kings.  FTP name this Gothic cathedral, where Charles VII was crowned in 1429 in the presence of Joan of Arc.
	Answer: Reims (pronounced “rahnz,” but accept phonetic pronunciations)

14.   It was developed during the 16th century and served mainly to reinforce the continuo group; only during the 17th and 18th centuries was it occasionally used instead of the bass viola da gamba as a solo instrument.  Notable works for it include solo symphonies by Prokofiev and Britten  and concerti by Lalo, Dutilleux, and Boccherini.  For ten points, name this instrument, featured alongside the piano in five Bach sonatas, whose famous performers include Pierre Fournier, Pablo Casals, and Yo-Yo Ma.
	Answer: Violincello

15.  Its protagonist is obsessed with both the manuscripts of the great Italian Morelli and with a mysterious Uruguayan known only as La Maga.  Set in Paris and Buenos Aires, it requires the reader to track the story of the Argentine intellectual Oliveira by jumping back and forth between the actual narrative and the author's digressions.  FTP, name this novel by Julio Cortázar named for a children's game which its unusual structure resembles.
	Answer: Hopscotch (Rayuela)

16.  There are more than 10 serogroups of the aerobic, gram-negative bacteria that cause this disease, and they are ubiquitous in warm, moist environments. This particular characteristic helped a strain of the bacteria survive in the air conditioners of the Bellevue-Stratford hotel in Philadelphia in 1976, where 221 people were stricken, and 34 died. For ten points, name this disease named for the conventioneers who met at that hotel to celebrate the USA's bicentennial.
	Answer: Legionnaire's disease

17.  He became great friends with Polybius while Polybius was exiled in Rome, sharing an enthusiasm with the Greek historian for Greek culture and literature.  Adopted into a great military family, his first military experience came in the Third Macedonian War under the command of his father.  One of his triumphs came after conquering the Celtiberian  city of Numantia in Spain, but he received the cognomen by which he is known to history for capturing and utterly destroying Carthage in 146 B.C.  FTP, name this Roman general, the adoptive grandson and namesake of the hero of Zama.
	Answer: Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus the younger (accept Scipio Aemilianus or Scipio Africanus Minor).

18.  He was the first man to make a second trip into space, which he did aboard Gemini 3.  Serving as a fighter pilot in the Korean War and later as a test pilot, NASA chose him as one of the seven original Mercury program astronauts.  However, his Mercury capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank into the Atlantic Ocean upon return to Earth, foreshadowing his later bad luck.  FTP, name this astronaut, who, along with Roger Chafee and Edward White, died of a fire which broke out during a simulation for the Apollo I mission.
	Answer: Virgil “Gus” Grissom

19.  He trained as a historian in Munich under Ignaz von Dollinger, where he learned to apply scientific thinking to history.  When he became editor of the Catholic journal The Rambler, however, following Cardinal John Henry Newman, his approach to history earned the ire of the Vatican, which forced him to resign his editorship.  He was the grandson of a Neapolitan prime minister who, along with Horatio Nelson, imposed a reign of terror on Naples, but he later became famous in his own right as a professor at Cambridge.  FTP, name this man, who famously wrote that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” 
	Answer: Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton 

20.  This range results from the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate under the North American plate.  It is towards the northern end of the Pacific Mountain system, running south of the Juan de Fuca Strait and west of Puget Sound and parallel to the Cascade Range.  FTP, name this mountain range, the namesake of a Western Washington peninsula, whose highest peak, at 7,965 feet, is Mount Olympus.
	Answer: the Olympic Mountains (accept the Olympics)

21.  He was the son of a Turkish slave named Sebuktigin.  He ruled only a small area upon succession to the throne, but over the course of his 32-year reign he conquered vast tracts of land, winning two major battles near Peshawar and sacking the city of Somnath on the Arabian Sea.  He also built his capital into one of the major cultural centers of the Muslim world, patronizing such scholars and poets as al-Biruni and Ferdowsi.  FTP, name this ruler, a direct ancestor of Tamerlaine and the first Muslim to conquer large areas of India.
	Answer: Yamin al-Daula Abu'l Qasim Mahmud ibn Sebüktigin

22.  One of the leading men-of-letters of nineteenth century France, and the preeminent critic of his age, he is famous for coining the term “ivory tower” in an essay on Vigny, for the famous affair he carried on with Victor Hugo’s young wife, and for his ability to single-handedly make or break literary reputations at mid-century.  FTP, name this writer, an early exponent of Romanticism and later literary reactionary whose name appears in Proust’s most important work of non-fiction.
	Answer: Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

23.  As a young man he led an expedition in Southwestern Africa that unsuccessfully sought an alternative route to Lake Ngami.  As a result he was elected to the Royal Geographical Society at the young age of 31.  Although he was a polymath, writing hundreds of papers on diverse subjects, he is remembered today chiefly for his work in one area, as exemplified by his book Hereditary Genius.  FTP, name this cousin of Charles Darwin, who coined the term eugenics.
	Answer: Francis Galton

24.  Invented by John Tukey, outliers are represented as dots on them and are defined as any observations beyond one and a half times the interquartile range.  The rest of the plot visually denotes the five number summary: minimum, first quartile, median, second quartile and maximum.  FTP, name this simple yet powerful description of the spread of a data set, on which the interquartile range is depicted like the facial hair of a cat.
	Answer: boxplot or box and whiskers plot

Bonus Questions

1.  Identify the following German-language examples of the Bildungsroman, for ten points from the plot description, five points if you need the author:
a)	10:	A teenager has an affair with an older woman, loses her, and later discovers that she was a Nazi and may have been responsible for the deaths of dozens of women during a catastrophic fire during WW II.
	5:	Bernhard Schlink
	Answer: The Reader (Die Vorleser)
b)	10:	The title character has two passionately felt but unrequited love affairs in his youth, one for a boy named Hans Hansen and later for a girl named Ingeborg Holm.  Many years later, after becoming a famous writer, he finds that Hans and Inge have ended up together.
	5:	Thomas Mann
	Answer: Tonio Kroger
c)	10	A young man who hopes to one day become a great actor or dramatist has his life molded by the mysterious Tower Society, to which he eventually gains membership.
	5:	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
	Answer: Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre; don't accept just Wilhelm Meister, since there was a sequel)

2.  Name these English kings FTPE.
a) This son of William the Conqueror ascended the throne upon William’s death and successfully gained control of Normandy from his elder brother Robert Curthose.
	Answer: William II Rufus (accept William Rufus)
b) He succeeded King John and put down a rebellion led by Simon de Montfort in the latter part of his reign, with the help of his son and successor, Edward I.
	Answer: Henry III
c) Because he had a more direct relationship, through his mother, to Charles IV than did the French king Philip VI, he maintained a claim to the throne of France.  This was one justification for his invasion of France in 1337.
	Answer: Edward III

3.  Identify the following Venetian buildings:
a) For five points, this magnificent basilica was finished by 1096 but continued to be decorated well into the 19th century.  It features five domes, a facade decorated by four bronze horses reproduced from Ancient Greek originals, and an impressive set of golden Byzantine mosaics in its interior.
	Answer: St. Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco)
b) For ten points, this imposing structure, the seat of the Venetian republic’s political power, has open arcades in its first two storeys and a larger third storey decorated with white and rose-colored marble.
	Answer: The Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale)
c) For 15 points, across the basin of Saint Marco from the great piazza of St. Mark’s, this church’s facade is the most ornately decorated section of Venice’s main Benedictine monastery and is one of the most celebrated works of the Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio.
	Answer: San Giorgio Maggiore

4.  Identify the following organic structural groups for ten points each:
a) With formula ROCl, these are prepared from carboxylic acids by the addition of thionyl chloride or phosphorous pentachloride.
	Answer: Acid chlorides (or acyl chlorides)
b) Another carboxylic acid derivative, they react with water to give two equivalents of a carboxylic acid and are prepared by treating the acid with a strong dehydrating agent like phosphorous pentoxide.
	Answer: Acid Anhydrides (or acyl anhydrides)
c) Consisting of an oxygen bonded to carbons on both sides, the Williamson synthesis is one method of preparing them
	Answer: Ethers

5.   Name these Zionist thinkers FTPE.
a) This writer, born in Budapest, penned the Jewish State, which appeared in 1896, and is still considered the intellectual father of Zionism.
	Answer: Theodor Herzl
b) Though a rabbi, he lost his religious faith early in life, and was very important in promoting Hebrew as a secular, literary language.  His pen-name, by which he is generally known, means “one of the people.”
	Answer: Ahad Ha-Am (accept Asher Ginzberg)
c) He was an accomplished chemist, but he later achieved greater fame as an ambassador of Zionism, negotiating among other things the issuance of the Balfour declaration, and as the first President of Israel.
	Answer: Chaim Weizmann

6.  Give the common name of each of these diseases given the causative agent for 10.  If you need the vector as well, you’ll get 5.
a)	10: Scientific name: Yersinia pestis
	5: Its primary vector is the rat tick
	Answer: bubonic plague
b) 	10: Scientific name: Borrelia burgdorferi
	5: Its primary vector is deer ticks	
	Answer: Lyme disease
c) 	10: All species of the genus Plasmodium
	5: Its most notorious vectors are mosquitos
 	Answer: Malaria

7.  Name these Central African lakes FTPE.
a) This large freshwater lake lies primarily in Tanzania and Uganda.
	Answer: Lake Victoria
b) This second-deepest freshwater lake in the world forms the border between Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
	Answer: Lake Tanganyika
c) This large lake, lying between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of the Congo, contains vast quantities of ancient volcanic outpourings.
	Answer: Lake Kivu

8.  Name these leaders of interwar Germany FTPE.
a) This Jewish socialist leader of the Bavarian republic was assassinated by Anton Graf von Arco-Valley in 1919.
	Answer: Kurt Eisner
b) This moderate socialist was the first president of the Weimar Republic.  He was succeeded upon his death by Paul von Hindenburg
	Answer: Friedrich Ebert
c) This man was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1926 for his work as foreign minister in negotiating the Locarno Pact and achieving a rapprochement with France.
	Answer: Gustav Stresemann

9.  Identify the following literary theorists, FTPE:
a) Toys, soaps and detergents, striptease, the photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, and Balzac’s “Sarrasine” are just some of the many subjects broached by this versatile French theorist, an early proponent of structuralism who gained later renown for his declaration of the Death of the Author.
	Answer: Roland Barthes
b) One of the most famous members of the Yale school of deconstruction, this Belgain theorist and follower of Derrida was primarily concerned with the legacy of Romanticism.  His career was marred however, after the revelation of a series of pro-Nazi articles that he wrote during the Second World War.
	Answer: Paul de Man
c) A French psychoanalyst who studied under Lacan, she gained fame for her rejection both of Freud’s theories concerning female sexuality and Lacan’s modifications of them in works such as The Sex Which Is Not One and Speculum of the Other Woman.
	Answer: Luce Irigaray

10. Identify the following about a class of bioactive compounds for ten points each. 
a) Members of this group of biogenic amines include epinephrine, norepinephrine, and dopamine and are produced by nerve tissue as well as the adrenal medulla.
	Answer: Catecholamines
b) Catecholamines are synthesized using this amino acid as a precursor.
	Answer: Tyrosine
c) The first product of tyrosine in the synthetic pathway is this compound, whose L stereoisomer was given to Parkinsons patients in the movie Awakenings.
	Answer: DOPA

11. Name the composers of these musical works on a 10-5 basis.
a) 	10: The opera Idomeneo, ré di Creta
	5:  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik  	
	Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
b)	10: The Pilgrimage of the Rose
	5: Carnaval
	Answer: Robert Schumann
c) 	10: Momoprecoce
	5: Bachianas Brasilerias
	Answer: Heitor Villa-Lobos

12. Identify the following prominent female scientists, FTP.
a) She coined the term “fission” while working with Hans Straussman, and element 109 is named in her honor.	
1)		Answer: Lise Meitner
2)	b) The first woman appointed to a professorship in Germany, she lends her name to rings whose ideals satisfy an ascending chain condition and to a theorem relating physical symmetries with integrals of motion.
3)		Answer: Emmy Noether
4)	c) Though she codiscovered pulsars while a graduate student at Cambridge in 1974, the Nobel Prize committee ignored her, giving the award to her advisor, Anthony Hewitt.	Answer: Jocelyn Bell-Burnett
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6)	13.  Identify the saint, FTP, given what the saint is patron of.
7)	a) He is the patron saint of funeral homes and morticians because he arranged the burial of Jesus.
8)		Answer: St. Joseph of Arimathea
9)	b) He was crucified with Jesus, and repented his wayward ways, making him the patron saint of criminals and thieves.
10)		Answer: St. Dimas or Dismas
11)	c) She was too ill to leave her bed on Christmas, but was somehow able to hear mass being conducted miles away, making her the patron saint of television.	
12)		Answer: St. Clare of Assisi
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14)	14.  Name the F. Scott Fitzgerald works FTP.
15)	a) This indictment of the film industry follows the fall of Monroe Stahr, a studio executive who works to produce high quality films without regard for their financial success.	Answer: The Last Tycoon
16)	b) This first work of Fitzgerald tells of the literary aspirations and failed romances of Princeton student Amory Blaine.
17)		Answer: This Side of Paradise
18)	c) This, the second novel of Fitzgerald, follows the lives of a couple who choose to wait for inheritance rather than do anything useful.
19)		Answer: The Beautiful and Damned
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21)	15.  Name the following works of John Dryden, FTP.
22)	a) This early comedy of Dryden follows the romance of Palmyra and Leonidas and shares its name with a Hogarth series.
23)		Answer: Marriage a la Mode
b) This allegorical poem uses the title biblical characters to represent the politicians Shaftsbury and Monmouth.
	Answer: Absalom and Achitophel
c) This satire follows a character modelled on Dryden's rival Thomas Shadwell as he becomes Emperor of Nonsense
	Answer: Mac Flecknoe

16.  Answer the following about the most exciting team in the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks. 
a) Though born in South Africa, this All- Star point guard grew up in Canada and played college ball in California.	
1)		Answer: Steve Nash
2)	b) This eccentric coach of the Mavs is known for crafting unorthodox offensive plans to play to his team’s unusual strengths.
3)		Answer: Don Nelson (Nellie is acceptable)
4)	c) The Mavericks acquired this high scoring former UNC player from the Golden State Warriors in the off season
5)		Answer: Antawn Jamison
6)	17.  Name the country, given a list of the countries with which it shares borders, FTP.
7)	a)  Russia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Armenia.
8)		Answer: Georgia
9)	b) Panama, Nicaragua
10)		Answer: Costa Rica
c) Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, Zambia
	Answer: Zimbabwe

18. Name these invaders of China FTP each
a) These nomadic tribesmen were unified under a single leader, known as the chanyu, around the beginning of the Chin dynasty.  They dominated central Asia and were the scourge of Northern China for centuries afterwards.
	Answer: Hsiung-Nu (accept fairly widely varying pronunciations, including Xiongnu or huns)
b) This Turkic people ruled much of the central Asian steppes and frequently fought with the Sui and Tang dynasties.
	Answer: T’u-chueh 
c) This tribe, originating in Manchuria, conquered the Khitai and large areas of North China in the early 12th century, establishing their own Chin dynasty.  They made efforts to maintain their cultural and ethnic independence from their Chinese subjects.
	Answer: Juchen (accept Ruzhen) 

19.  Identify these Sherlock Holmes stories from a description for ten points each.  Note:  if a story is part of a larger collection, name the story.
a) A man is found murdered with the word “Rache” written in blood on the wall.  Holmes later uncovers a sordid tale involving Mormonism and more murder.
	Answer: A Study in Scarlet
b) A soldier whose fortune was stolen from him in India, exacts an inadvertent revenge on the son of Major Sholto when his island native accomplice shoots him with a poison dart. 
	Answer: The Sign of Four
c) This story involves a fictitious organization set up in which a pawnshop owner copies the Encyclopedia Britannica longhand so that a bank robbery can take place.
	Answer: "The Red-Headed League"

20.  Name these early modern educators FTPE.
a) This Swiss educator opened schools in the late 18th and early 19th centuries which aimed to teach children skills that would make them self-reliant.
	Answer: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
b) This German founded the Kindergarten movement in the first half of the 19th century, believing that children learn best from constructive play at a young age.
	Answer: Friedrich Froebel
c) This German philosophical realist believed that the aim of education was to teach children how to make ethical decisions, but he became prominent only after his death in 1841.
	Answer: Johann Friedrich Herbart

21.	Identify the following poems from opening lines FTPE:
a)	“This darksome burn, horseback brown,
	  His rollrock highroad roaring down,
	  In coop and in comb the fleece is his foam
	  Flutes and low to the lake falls home.”
	Answer: "Inversnaid"(Gerald Manley Hopkins)
b)	“She sang beyond the genius of the sea.
	  The water never formed to mind or voice,
	  Like a body wholly body, fluttering
	  Its empty sleeves; and yet its mimic motion
	  Made constant cry, caused constantly a cry,
	  That was not ours although we understood,
	  Inhuman, of the veritable ocean.”
	Answer: "The Idea of Order at Key West" (Wallace Stevens)
c)	“Midwinter spring is its own season
	  Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
	  Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.”
	Answer: "Little Gidding"(T.S. Eliot)

22. Answer the following about Shakespeare’s bloody tragedy, Titus Andronicus, for 10 points each. 
a) One of the most disturbing parts of the play is the rape of Titus’ daughter.  Name her. 
	Answer:  Lavinia
b) Give the names of the two sons of Tamora, the queen of the Goths, who perpetrate the rape of Lavinia. 
	Answers:  Chiron and Demetrius	

23. Identify the following works of Jan Vermeer from descriptions of their symbolism FTPE:
a) In this painting the action taken by the woman in the foreground of the painting is analogous to that depicted in a large painting in the background: an impressive depiction of Judgment Day.
	Answer: Woman with a Balance
b) This painting, suffused with political symbolism, features an map of the Netherlands in the background from the time when it was still governed by the Habsburgs.  The chandelier in front of the map has a two-headed eagle on it, the symbol of the Habsburgs, but its lack of candles signifies the lack of Habsburg power in the Netherlands.
	Answer: The Allegory of Painting
c) In this painting, in which a woman with an instrument is surprised by her maid while holding the title object, features a painting of a ship in a calm sea in the background, a clear signal of love in the seventeenth century.
	Answer: The Love Letter