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That was how the telegraphic correspondence with Florentino Ariza stopped being a concerto of intentions and illusory promises and became methodical and practical and more intense than ever.†
Chpt 2 *

correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
Dr. Juvenal Urbino looked at him in the new light, he saw that one eye was twisted like a fish's and that his words did not correspond to the movement of his lips, and he thought these were hallucinations brought on by his abuse of alcohol.†
Chpt 3 *

correspond = connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
Two days later, of course, he had to write the boy's reply with the same hand, style, and kind of love that he had attributed to him in the first letter, and so it was that he became involved in a feverish correspondence with himself.†
Chpt 4

correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
The chauffeur did not know, of course, that the additional letters were blank pages that Florentino Ariza addressed to himself, for he had never carried on a private correspondence with anyone, with the exception of the guardian's report that he sent at the end of each month to the parents of America Vicuna, with his personal impressions of the girl's conduct, her state of mind and health, and the progress she was making in her studies.†
Chpt 6
Although the date did not correspond exactly to the anniversary of his graduation, they chose Pentecost Sunday in order to magnify the significance of the celebration.†
Chpt 1
Their frenetic correspondence was almost two years old when Florentino Ariza, in a letter of only one paragraph, made a formal proposal of marriage to Fermina Daza.†
Chpt 2
She would not have recognized him, for there was nothing about him that corresponded to the image she had formed from Fermina Daza.†
Chpt 3
His uncle himself came to his office one day with a packet of correspondence that he had not dared put his name to, and he gave him his last chance to save his soul.†
Chpt 4
Although they maintained a formal correspondence concerning their children and other household matters, almost two years went by before either one could find a way back that was not mined with pride.†
Chpt 5
In this way an unknown Florentino Ariza was revealed to her, one possessed of a clear-sightedness that in no way corresponded to the feverish love letters of his youth or to the somber conduct of his entire life.†
Chpt 6
The correspondence back and forth became so frequent and intense that he forgot about his leg and the chastisement of the bed, he forgot about everything, and he dedicated himself totally to writing on the kind of portable table used in hospitals to serve meals to patients.†
Chpt 6

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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)

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