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Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:

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Communication

  • Letter (message), a form of written communication
  • Letters, the collected correspondence of a writer or historically significant person
    • Maktubat (disambiguation), the Arabic word for collected letters
    • Pauline epistles, addressed by St. Paul to various communities or congregations, such as "Letters to the Galatians" or "Letters to the Corinthians", and part of the canonical books of the Bible
  • The letter as a form of second-person literature; see Epistle
    • Epistulae (Pliny)
    • Epistolary novel, a long-form fiction composed of letters (epistles)
  • Open letter, a public letter as distinguished from private correspondence
  • Letter to the editor, a letter sent to a newspaper, magazine, or online publication by one of its readers and meant to be published
  • Encyclical letter in the Catholic Church
  • Letter (paper size), paper conventionally sized for letter-writing
  • Letter.wiki, a platform for public exchange of letters.

Education

  • Letters, an obsolete synecdoche for literacy; e.g. "He knows his letters"
  • Literature as in Letters, Arts and Sciences
  • Varsity letter, an award given in the U.S. for interscholastic or intercollegiate merit in a sport or other activity such as band or orchestra

Music

  • Letters (Butch Walker album), 2004
  • Letters (Jimmy Webb album), 1972
  • Letters (Matt Cardle album), 2011
  • "Letters" (song), by Utada Hikaru, 2002

Places

  • Letters, Ross-shire, a small village on the coast of Loch Broom, Scotland
  • Letter railway station in Germany
  • Letter, a townland in Kilcar, County Donegal, Ireland

People

  • Douglas Letter, American lawyer and general counsel
  • Stephan Letter (born 1978), German serial killer

Other uses

  • LETTERS, an 1979 novel by John Barth
  • John Letters, a Scottish manufacturer of golf clubs
  • Letters (sculpture), a 1915 work by Charles Keck

See also

  • The Letter (disambiguation)
  • Letterer, a member of a team of comic book creators responsible for drawing the comic book's text
  • Letterman (disambiguation)
  • Lettering, and calligraphy
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