From in a sentence

“To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.,” was engraved upon it, with the date “1884.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles

We were fifty kilometers from the front but the adjutant worried about the fire in my kitchen.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time

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Dictionary

Merriam-Webster
— used as a function word to indicate a starting point of a physical movement or a starting point in measuring or reckoning or in a statement of limits
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Macmillan
— used for stating who gives or sends you something or provides you with something
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Usage

21 uses of ‘from’ in In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
493 uses of ‘from’ in Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
232 uses of ‘from’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
286 uses of ‘from’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle