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correspond
in
Into the Wild
(Edited)

This correspondence, as one might expect, reflected sharply divergent points of view: Some readers admired the boy immensely for his courage and noble ideals; others fulminated that he was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist who perished out of arrogance and stupidity, and was undeserving of the considerable media attention he received.
p. iii.5

correspondence = written letters
There was mail waiting for him when he arrived back in South Dakota, correspondence from people he'd met on the road, including what Westerberg remembers as "letters from a girl who had a big crush on him, someone he'd gotten to know in some Timbuktu, some campground, I think."
p. 65.1
"Personally I see nothing positive at all about Chris McCandless's lifestyle or wilderness doctrine," scolded another correspondent.
p. 71.3 *

correspondent = reporter
Reading this correspondence (collected in W. L. Rusho's meticulously researched biography, Everett Ruess: A Vagabond for Beauty), one is struck by Ruess's craving for connection with the natural world and by his almost incendiary passion for the country through which he walked.
p. 91.2

correspondence = written letters
Everett Ruess's correspondence reveals uncanny parallels between Ruess and Chris McCandless.
p. 91.4 *
Not only did McCandless die because he was stupid, one Alaska correspondent observed, but "the scope of his self-styled adventure was so small as to ring pathetic, squatting in a wrecked bus a few miles out of Healy, potting jays and squirrels, mistaking a caribou for a moose (pretty hard to do)…."
p. 177.8

correspondent = reporter

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(1) (correspond as in: corresponding time period)
connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched

(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)
(2) (correspond as in: corresponding by email)
communicate -- typically by writing letters or email

A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
(3) (correspondence as in: a correspondence course)
done from afar

For example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.

This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications.
(4) (correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper)
a reporter or other representative -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

correspond in Into the Wild (Edited)

correspond
in
Into the Wild
(Edited)