---
title: "Write their letters"
method: PATCH
path: "/v1/letters/{letter}/recipients"
tags: ["People"]
---

# Write their letters

`PATCH /v1/letters/{letter}/recipients`

## Request

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

For a letter written for each person: each person’s whole letter, by their id from The people on a letter, for those without one yet. A letter already written is left as it is. Up to 500 at a time.

Permission: **Read and write**.

## Path parameters

- `letter` string, uuid, required

## Request body

- object
  - `letters` object[], required
    - `person_id` string, uuid, required: Their id, from The people on a letter.
    - `letter` string, required: Their whole letter, greeting to sign-off.

## 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

- `400`: What was sent needs changing. The error says what.
- `401`: No key, or one that’s been revoked.
- `403`: The key’s permission isn’t enough: this needs Read and write.
- `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)