First, consider what you know about Banquo from the play. He is a great general, fearless in battle, and he lives to serve the king, loyal to the death. He has met the weird sisters on the heath on his way home from battle with Macbeth, and they have told both of the thanes' futures: Macbeth will be thane of Cawdor and king, and Banquo won't be king but his heirs will. Banquo was in...
First, consider what you know about Banquo from the play. He is a great general, fearless in battle, and he lives to serve the king, loyal to the death. He has met the weird sisters on the heath on his way home from battle with Macbeth, and they have told both of the thanes' futures: Macbeth will be thane of Cawdor and king, and Banquo won't be king but his heirs will. Banquo was in the castle the night Duncan was murdered, and has his suspicions that Macbeth was behind it. Then Banquo has business elsewhere with his son, and leaves Macbeth's castle in a hurry with his son. That would be the last opportunity he'd have to write a letter.
Think about what kind of man he is, who he might write to (his wife?), and what he might talk about, considering everything that has happened.
If it were me, I'd write the letter in blank verse, too. Banquo is, after all, an aristocrat, and all Shakespearean aristocrats speak in iambic pentameter--rhymed or unrhymed.
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