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Letter of Uriah (2 Sam, xi. 14)

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A treacherous letter of friendship, but in reality a death-warrant. (See Bellerophon.)

“However, sir, here is a guarantee. Look at its contents; I do not again carry the letters of Uriah.”—Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xvi.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.