Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:

Characters typeface

* Letter (alphabet), a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet. * Letterform, the graphic form of a letter of the alphabet, either as written or in a particular type font. *

Rehearsal letter A rehearsal letter is a boldface letter of the alphabet in an orchestral score, and its corresponding parts, that provides the conductor, who typically leads rehearsals, with a convenient spot to tell the orchestra to begin at places other than th ...

in an orchestral score

Communication

Letter (message) A letter is a written message conveyed from one person (or group of people) to another through a medium. Something epistolary means that it is a form of letter writing. The term usually excludes written material intended to be read in its original ...

, a form of written communication ** Mail * Letters, the collected correspondence of a writer or historically significant person **

Maktubat (disambiguation) Maktubat, Mektubat (Arabic: مکتوبات) or Makatib, Mekatib (Persian: مکاتیب), commonly translated as The Letters may refer to the following works: *''Makatib'' (''Maktubat al-Rabbani''), the book containing Ahmad Sirhindi's letters to his ...

, the Arabic word for collected letters **

Pauline epistles The Pauline epistles, also known as Epistles of Paul or Letters of Paul, are the thirteen books of the New Testament attributed to Paul the Apostle, although the authorship of some is in dispute. Among these epistles are some of the earliest extan ...

, 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 An epistle (; el, ἐπιστολή, ''epistolē,'' "letter") is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter. The epistle genre of letter-writing was common in ancient Egypt as par ...

** 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 An encyclical was originally a circular letter sent to all the churches of a particular area in the ancient Roman Church. At that time, the word could be used for a letter sent out by any bishop. The word comes from the Late Latin (originally from ...

letter in the Catholic Church * Letter (paper size), paper conventionally sized for letter-writing

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 (Bish album), 2020 * "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 Stephan Letter (born 17 September 1978) is a German serial killer and former nurse responsible for the murder of at least 29 patients while he worked at a hospital in Sonthofen, Bavaria, between January 2003 and July 2004. His murders have been de ...

(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