Brewer's: Come to Hand

(It has). Been received. “Come into my hand.” In Latin, ad manus (alicujus) pervenire.

“Your letter came to hand yesterday.” —A. Trollope.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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