Assuming at some point, Trump does admit defeat, at least to himself, several not very important questions arise. First will he ever admit publicly that he lost? That's an easy one: of course not; his fragile ego could not cope with having to admit he was not the all-conquering hero of his minds eye.
Next, the letter: it is common practice for the outgoing occupants of the Oval Office to write a letter with sage words of advice for their successor. Will Trump write one for Biden? That's harder. On the one hand he thinks he's so much smarter than everyone else that he might jump at the opportunity to tell Biden what a great job he'd done under the pretext of offering advice. Of course he wouldn't give Biden any useful advice as that might help Biden do a better job than he had and that would make him look bad. That fact that a monkey with a stick would have done a better job is not something Trump is likely to consider. On the other hand, he might just be so petulant as to not want to conform to any of the usual niceties; I wouldn't be surprised if he nicked stuff from the Oval Office on his way out. So on balance I'd say no letter.
Finally, were Trump to write a such a letter, would Biden read it? I think the answer to that one is yes. Biden, in contrast to his predecessor, doesn't take every opportunity to belittle his opponents and most of those around him. And politically he'd want to try to mend the rift that Trump has created so making a show of trashing the letter (as Pelosi did after one of Trump's State of the Union addresses to Congress) would not help case (not is it his style).
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