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Business letter - basically letter.cls, but with everything left-aligned
\documentclass[12pt]{letter}
\usepackage{fullpage} %1in margins on every page
\longindentation=0pt
\renewcommand*{\opening}[1]{\thispagestyle{empty}%
{\raggedright \fromaddress \\*[2\parskip]%
\today \\*[2\parskip]%
\toname \\ \toaddress \par}%
\vspace{2\parskip}%
#1\par\nobreak}
\signature{Your Name}
\address{123 Some St \\ Anytown, MA 01000}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{letter}{Recipient \\ 456 That Avenue \\ West Anywhere, IN 47000}
\opening{Dear Mr Recipient:}
\closing{Sincerely,}
\end{letter}
\end{document}
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werebus commented Jul 11, 2013

One downside is that the unmodified "letter" documentclass allows the \author{} tag to be optional. This one doesn't. I might try to fix that some day.

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