Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at smith college in the early fifties, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet ted hughes, up to her death in February 1963. The ...Letters Home represents Sylvia Plath's correspondence from her time at smith college in the early fifties, through her meeting with, and subsequent marriage to, the poet ted hughes, up to her death in February 1963. The letters are addressed mainly to her mother, with whom she had an extremely close and confiding relationship, but there are also some to her brother warren and her benefactress mrs Prouty.