---
title: "A letter"
method: GET
path: "/v1/letters/{letter}"
tags: ["Letters"]
---

# A letter

`GET /v1/letters/{letter}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://app.verygoodletter.co/api`
- URL: `https://app.verygoodletter.co/api/v1/letters/{letter}`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Its words, look, who it’s to, and what’s still to do before it can be ordered.

Permission: **Read only**.

## Path parameters

- `letter` string, uuid, required

## Response `200`

What it did, as JSON, with the mode it ran in.

- Answer
  - `mode` 'sandbox' | 'live', required: Which the request ran in: the key’s.

## Other responses

- `401`: No key, or one that’s been revoked.
- `404`: There’s nothing with that id, for this key.
- `429`: More than 120 requests in a minute.

---

[API](https://skmtc.dev/verygoodletter/apis/the-very-good-letter-company-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/verygoodletter/apis/the-very-good-letter-company-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/verygoodletter/apis/the-very-good-letter-company-api/revisions/c735d65147f5?raw)