7 Ingredients for Cooking Up a Great Letter Let's see what all the different things are on a typical letter. Here's a letter I got from the folks at WGBH who made this web site.

The date. When did they write the letter? This is how we start a letter. My name is here, because they were writing to me. Here's the letter. This is what they wanted to say to me. Here's some more of it. They left a space then wrote this bit, as they changed what they were talking about. Macaroons! They're getting ready to say good-bye. They signed their name. Remember to put your name on letters you send. P.S. is short for "Oops-we-forgot-to-say-this-too." The Brain says it's from Latin. Whatever.