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/kˌɔrəspˈɑndəns/ Listen

noun

Correspondence n.

Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters. "Holding also good correspondence with the other great men in the state." "To facilitate correspondence between one part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects of the post office."

The letters which pass between correspondents.

Mutual adaptation, relation, or agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity; fitness; relation.

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... go further: she issued a decree prohibiting the enslavement of serfs. But unfortunately the palace intrigues, and the correspondence with the philosophers, and the destruction of Polish nationality left her no time to see the edict carried out. But Europe applauded—and the serfs waited. Two years after this came a deed which put an end to all this uncertainty. An edict was prepared ordering the peasants of Little Russia ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 17 • Charles Francis Horne

... said, "he was obeyed with as much docility on the farthest limits of the empire as he was in his own palace, and there reigned everywhere great plenty and absolute peace."[20] The University of Sankore became a center of learning in correspondence with Egypt and North Africa and had a swarm of black Sudanese students. Law, literature, grammar, geography and surgery were studied. Askia the Great reigned thirty-six years, and his dynasty continued on the throne until after the Moorish conquest ...

— The Negro • W.E.B. Du Bois

... one word of this story, although she was quite without proof to the contrary. Jem's letters had not been frequent, nor had they been remarkable for minuteness of detail respecting his own life. Mrs. Agar had done her best to put a stop to this correspondence altogether, and had succeeded in bringing about a subtle reserve on both sides. She had persistently told Jem that Dora was evidently attached to Arthur, and that their marriage was only the question of a few years. Of this Jem had never found any confirmatory hint ...

— From One Generation to Another • Henry Seton Merriman

... severe tests to enable him to complete the programme he had set himself to accomplish. His lectures at the university, his sermons preached in the Augustinian church, his visitations of the houses of his order in the district over which he was vicar, his correspondence, partly routine and partly entailed by his close relations with some of the leading men in Germany, occupied all his time even to the exclusion of the spiritual exercises enjoined by his rule. Very frequently he neglected to celebrate Mass or even to read the divine office, ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... intending to devote the next day to writing the details of all those particulars which I have just related, and which I purposed to send by some special messenger to your highness. But it then struck me that I should only attract undue attention to myself by conducting at a public tavern a correspondence having so important an aspect, and I accordingly rose very early in the morning to sally forth to seek after a secluded but respectable lodging, I eventually obtained suitable apartments in the house of a widow named ...

— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

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