Letter, letters, or literature may refer to:

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Letter (alphabet) A letter is a segmental symbol of a phonemic writing system. The inventory of all letters forms an alphabet. Letters broadly correspond to phonemes in the spoken form of the language, although there is rarely a consistent and exact correspond ...

, a character representing one or more of the sounds used in speech; any of the symbols of an alphabet. *

Letterform A letterform, letter-form or letter form, is a term used especially in typography, palaeography, calligraphy and epigraphy to mean a letter (alphabet), letter's shape. A letterform is a type of glyph, which is a specific, concrete way of writing ...

, the graphic form of a letter of the alphabet, either as written or in a particular type font. * Rehearsal letter in an orchestral score

Communication

* Letter (message), a form of written communication **

Mail The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal sys ...

* 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) The ''Epistulae'' (, "letters") are a series of personal missives by Pliny the Younger directed to his friends and associates. These Latin letters are a unique testimony of Roman administrative history and everyday life in the 1st century. Th ...

Epistolary novel An epistolary novel is a novel written as a series of letters. The term is often extended to cover novels that intersperse documents of other kinds with the letters, most commonly diary entries and newspaper clippings, and sometimes considered ...

, a long-form fiction composed of letters (epistles) *

Open letter An open letter is a letter that is intended to be read by a wide audience, or a letter intended for an individual, but that is nonetheless widely distributed intentionally. Open letters usually take the form of a letter addressed to an indiv ...

, a public letter as distinguished from private correspondence *

Letter to the editor A letter to the editor (LTE) is a letter sent to a publication about an issue of concern to the reader. Usually, such letters are intended for publication. In many publications, letters to the editor may be sent either through conventional mail ...

, 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) Letter or ANSI Letter is a paper size standard defined by the American National Standards Institute, commonly used as home or office stationery in the United States, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, the Dominic ...

, paper conventionally sized for letter-writing

Education

* Letters, an obsolete synecdoche for

literacy Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, hum ...

; 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), ''Letters'' (Butch Walker album), 2004 * Letters (Jimmy Webb album), ''Letters'' (Jimmy Webb album), 1972 * Letters (Matt Cardle album), ''Letters'' (Matt Cardle album), 2011 *Letters (Bish album), 2020 * Letters (song), "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), ''Letters'' (sculpture), a 1915 work by Charles Keck