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August 1, 2000 Dear Colleagues in High Energy Physics: The 5th International e+e- Linear Collider Workshop on Physics and Detectors will be held at Fermilab October 24 -28, 2000. This workshop continues the series of meetings previously held in Finland, Hawaii, Japan, and most recently in Sitges, Spain (see: http://physics.web.cern.ch/Physics/LCWS99/ and http://www.desy.de/~lcnotes/sitges_proceedings.html). The American high-energy physics community is now entering a period of important discussions about its future, leading up to the Snowmass 2001 summer study. The linear collider project is one of the leading candidates for a new major high-energy physics facility in the United States. At the same time, a linear collider is being studied as a future facility in Europe and Japan. The Linear Collider Workshop 2000 will bring together the principal proponents of these projects and will broadly discuss the technology and physics studies being done around the world. We hope this meeting will provide American high-energy physicists with a unique opportunity to review the status and capabilities of the linear collider. Conference information, including the preliminary program, organization of working groups, and information about travel and hotels, and a registration form, can be found at: http://www-lc.fnal.gov/lcws2000 Background material on the linear collider projects and their physics capabilities can be found at: http://hepwww.physics.yale.edu/lc/ and http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~mpeskin/LC/ and in the recent report by the American Linear Collider Working Group: hep-ex/0007022, which is available via one of the HEP pre-print servers. We hope to see you at Fermilab in October. Sincerely, Gene Fisk for the Local Organizing Committee