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Formal Letter LaTeX Template

A correctly laid-out formal letter with the standard letter class.

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What's inside

  • Sender address and automatic date placement
  • Recipient block and formal opening
  • \closing with space for a signature
  • Enclosure and carbon-copy commands ready to uncomment
  • Plain, conservative typography appropriate for official mail
Document class: letter
No extra packages needed

Cover letters, official requests, resignation letters — documents where layout conventions matter and getting them wrong is noticed. LaTeX's letter class has encoded those conventions for decades: addresses, date, salutation, and signature all land where a formal letter expects them.

There is almost nothing to configure, which is the point. Fill in the addresses, write the body, compile.

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