Inquiry Letter
Inquiry Letter is a letter written to request
information and/or ascertain its authenticity. A letter of inquiry deals with
various matters like job vacancies, funding, grants, scholarships, projects,
sales, pre-proposals and others. The term is common in various business setups
as it implies fund request or pre-proposal information. Owing to this usage,
the term may be considered exclusive to these setups alone. But that is not the
case, to this effect the below definition offers a justified meaning.
Inquiry Letter Definition
A document requesting information sent on
behalf of an individual or an organisation for their own respective purposes,
which can be mutually beneficial to the recipient and the sender.
The term ‘Inquiry’ is same as ‘Enquiry’. The
former is more commonly used in U.S. and the latter one is more common in U.K.
There are some other terms which represent the letters; these are Letter of
Intent, Letter of Interest, Query letter, Prospecting Letter, Pre-proposal
Letter and Concept Paper. The term ‘Cover Letter’, ‘Business Letter’, ‘Request
Letter’ and ‘Sales Letter’ is also applied to an inquiry letter especially when
the objective is same as that of letter for inquiry.
