voodooqueen
DAR Lapsarian
There are a couple of basics which apply to grant writing; I think thay may also apply to your letter--since you are asking for something. Compress as much as possible into as few words as possible, like when writing an abstract. Put your most significant points up front, including why readers should care about your point. The reason you put these points first is that you can only be assured of readers reading the beginning of something when they have a lot of other work to attend to. It's lagnaippe if they read the rest.
Good Luck--
Good Luck--