---
title: "Start a letter"
method: POST
path: "/v1/letters"
tags: ["Letters"]
---

# Start a letter

`POST /v1/letters`

## Request

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

A new letter in your brand, from a starting point.

Permission: **Read and write**.

## Request body

- object
  - `starting_point` string, required: A moment or type’s id, from Ways to start a letter.
  - `name` string: What you call it. Only you see this.

## 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- `401`: No key, or one that’s been revoked.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.
- `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)