Letters Home is a heavily abridged collection of letters written by Sylvia Plath to her family, mainly her mother and brother, between 1950, when she took up her studies at Smith College, up to her death in 1963. Sylvia Plath's mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, edited the letters and the collection was published by Harper & Row (US) in 1975 and by Faber & Faber (UK) in 1978.