David O'Mahony: A letter of intent for what needs to be said

What function does a letter have in today's world?

All letter writers are equal under the sun, which makes the letters section of a newspaper such an important outlet.

THE humble letter has done a vast amount of heavy lifting over the years.

From simple correspondence to popes mouthing off at their rivals to underpinning a whole style of novel, the epistolary (key for Dracula and Frankenstein), reborn in more recent times as “found fiction”, which can be letters, transcripts, and whatever you’re having yourself, and is fun to write.