The National Literacy Trust's 2018 report on letter writing highlighted the enduring appeal of writing letters to connect people. Many children and young people also said that they write letters to make the person they are writing to happy. This has never been truer now. This report of responses to a survey from early 2021 shows that children and young people's letter writing was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, with the key themes of connections, wellbeing, and advocacy/campaigning emerging from children and young people's comments. Key findings from the report include: (1) 1 in 4 (23.4%) of children and young people said that they had written a letter in the past month; (2) more girls than boys said that they had written a letter, as had younger children, compared with their older peers; (3) there was no difference by free school meal (FSM) uptake, with 24.2% of children and young people who received FSMs saying that they had written a letter in the past month, compared with 23.0% of those not receiving FSMs; and (4) 1 in 5 children said that writing made them feel connected to the world. [For the 2018 report, see ED593915.]