ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

James Forster (poison pen letter writer)

Okay kiddo, so there was a man named James Forster, who wrote some very mean letters to people. These letters were called 'poison pen letters' because they were full of hurtful and nasty things.

Imagine if you wrote a letter to your friend and said, "I don't like your hair, your clothes, and your shoes. You're ugly and nobody likes you." That would be a very mean letter, right? Well, James Forster wrote letters like that to many people, and it made them very sad and upset.

Writing nasty letters like that is very wrong and it can hurt people's feelings. So, James Forster had to pay for what he did and he was punished for it. We should always use our words to say kind and nice things to people, and never write hurtful things to them.