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You know I asked you some time ago never to speak to me of a creature who shouldn't correspond to that description.†
Chpt 22 *

correspond = connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
She corresponds to your description; it's for that I wish you to know her.†
Chpt 22

corresponds = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
She could imagine braver things than spending the winter in Paris—Paris had sides by which it so resembled New York, Paris was like smart, neat prose—and her close correspondence with Madame Merle did much to stimulate such flights.†
Chpt 31 *

correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
The convent is a great institution; we can't do without it; it corresponds to an essential need in families, in society.†
Chpt 50

corresponds = connects or fits together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
She questioned him immensely about England, about the British constitution, the English character, the state of politics, the manners and customs of the royal family, the peculiarities of the aristocracy, the way of living and thinking of his neighbours; and in begging to be enlightened on these points she usually enquired whether they corresponded with the descriptions in the books.†
Chpt 6
"I'm not sure that I understand you," said the correspondent of the Interviewer; "but I expect I shall before I leave."†
Chpt 10
Her presence proved somehow less irreducible to soft particles than Ralph had expected in the natural perturbation of his sense of the perfect solubility of that of his cousin; for the correspondent of the Interviewer prompted mirth in him, and he had long since decided that the crescendo of mirth should be the flower of his declining days.†
Chpt 10
A day or two after Miss Stackpole's arrival she had made some invidious reflexions on American hotels, which excited a vein of counter-argument on the part of the correspondent of the Interviewer, who in the exercise of her profession had acquainted herself, in the western world, with every form of caravansary.†
Chpt 11
Caspar Goodwood had never corresponded to her idea of a delightful person, and she supposed that this was why he left her so harshly critical.†
Chpt 13
When, however, Lord Warburton, who not only did correspond with it, but gave an extension to the term, appealed to her approval, she found herself still unsatisfied.†
Chpt 13
With no more outward light on the subject than he already possessed he suddenly acquired the conviction that it would be a sovereign injustice to the correspondent of the Interviewer to assign a dishonourable motive to any act of hers.†
Chpt 13
It was just the sort of plan, she said, that Miss Stackpole would be sure to suggest, and she enquired if the correspondent of the Interviewer was to take the party to stay at her favourite boarding-house.†
Chpt 15
I can imagine that at the end of ten years we might have a very pleasant correspondence.†
Chpt 16
After breakfast she wrote a succession of letters, as those arriving for her appeared innumerable: her correspondence was a source of surprise to Isabel when they sometimes walked together to the village post-office to deposit Madame Merle's offering to the mail.†
Chpt 19
Among the subjects that engaged her attention were the adventures of her friend Miss Stackpole, with whom she was in regular correspondence.†
Chpt 19
Bearing in mind his interest in their late companion, our heroine communicated several passages from this correspondence to Ralph, who followed with an emotion akin to suspense the career of the representative of the Interviewer.†
Chpt 19
Isabel could not have told you why, but she found something that ministered to mirth in the alliance the correspondent of the Interviewer had struck with Lady Pensil's brother; her amusement moreover subsisted in face of the fact that she thought it a credit to each of them.†
Chpt 20
It was as graceful on Henrietta's part to believe that Mr. Bantling took an interest in the diffusion of lively journalism and in consolidating the position of lady-correspondents as it was on the part of his companion to suppose that the cause of the Interviewer—a periodical of which he never formed a very definite conception—was, if subtly analysed (a task to which Mr. Bantling felt himself quite equal), but the cause of Miss Stackpole's need of demonstrative affection.†
Chpt 20
She had so definitely undertaken to preserve no record of what had passed between them that a corresponding effort on his own part would be eminently just.†
Chpt 21
Her mother, who had bristled with pretensions to elegant learning and published descriptive poems and corresponded on Italian subjects with the English weekly journals, her mother had died three years after the Countess's marriage, the father, lost in the grey American dawn of the situation, but reputed originally rich and wild, having died much earlier.†
Chpt 26
This journal offered its brilliant correspondent a fresher field for her genius than the mouldering cities of Europe, and Henrietta was cheered on her way by a promise from Mr. Bantling that he would soon come over to see her.†
Chpt 31
The Countess could not but feel that the correspondent of the Interviewer was much more in the movement than the American Corinne.†
Chpt 44
"Yet you're not a lady correspondent," said Henrietta pensively.†
Chpt 44
Lady correspondents appeared to him a part of the natural scheme of things in a progressive country, and though he never read their letters he supposed that they ministered somehow to social prosperity.†
Chpt 44 *
I had an idea that you were at one time in intimate correspondence.†
Chpt 46

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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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