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Letter Home

1988 single by The Forester Sisters

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ6533537 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Letter Home" is a song written and recorded by Wendy Waldman for her 1987 studio album Letters Home. In 1988, it was recorded by American country music group The Forester Sisters and released in June 1988 as the first single from the album Sincerely. The song reached number 9 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Editorial summary

“Letter Home” enters the record as 1988 single by The Forester Sisters. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Letter, Home and single can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-06-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Letter, Home and single.
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Why this record matters

“Letter Home” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Letter, Home and single provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6533537. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 1988.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Letter Home” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.