Principal letters on monogram letterhead in Word

Personal correspondence under the monogram

Not every letter a principal sends is foundation or trust business. There is a steady stream of personal correspondence — a note to a peer, a letter to an institution, an introduction, a thank-you of consequence — that goes out under the principal’s own monogram rather than any entity’s letterhead.

It is personal, and it should look personal: composed on the principal’s stationery, not on a foundation form.

These letters are often drafted by an assistant and reviewed by the principal, or typed by the principal directly. Either way, the monogram letterhead usually exists only as a PDF from the stationer who engraves the physical paper. Without a Word version, the assistant rebuilds the monogram layout each time, or the letter simply goes out as plain text — and a principal-to-principal letter that should feel considered instead looks like an email that was printed.

The principal’s letterhead, ready to write on

Letterhead Lab converts the principal’s monogram letterhead PDF into a Word file with the monogram set into the header and a clean body beneath it. The monogram is preserved as artwork, exactly as the engraver cut it — the conversion never tries to redraw it, so its weight and spacing are intact.

The assistant converts it once and keeps the template where personal correspondence is drafted. From then on a personal letter starts correctly: open the template, write the note, and save it as a new document — or print it, or export a PDF. The principal reviews a letter that already looks like theirs, not a layout the assistant had to assemble.

For the letters that should exist on engraved paper rather than as a printout, the loop closes with the stationer: the same monogram PDF that became this Word template can go to Wells & Drew for engraved sheets and matching envelopes. The Word file carries the everyday correspondence; the engraved paper carries the letters meant to be kept. Both sit under the identical monogram, because both came from the same source.