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Surely it must be a "great trial of patience and philosophy" to be so long separated from "the companion of your heart and from the father of your little flock," continued the older woman, whose tone in correspondence with Abigail Adams was customarily that of the wiser, slightly superior adviser.†
Subsection 2.4.1

correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
In private correspondence with James Warren, at the time of Franklin's arduous mission to Montreal in 1776, Adams had written: Franklin's character you know.†
Subsection 2.4.3
Between times, on his own, Adams maintained correspondence with James Warren, James Lovell, Elbridge Gerry, Samuel Adams, and Ben-jamin Rush.†
Subsection 2.5.1
In voluminous correspondence with members of Congress and in his private writings, Adams had not a complaining or disrespectful word to say about Franklin, nothing of the bitter disdain expressed in letters the year before.†
Subsection 2.5.1
It still took two to three months for letters to cross the ocean, sometimes longer, but the three sisters kept up their correspondence without cease.†
Subsection 2.6.2
Inexplicably, correspondence from Jefferson had dwindled to a standstill.†
Subsection 2.7.3
One was access to books, the other was "intimate correspondence with you, which is one of the most agreeable events in my life."†
Subsection 2.7.4
While Jefferson would have much to say about the Constitution and the need for a bill of rights in subsequent private correspondence with Madison, he made no public statement for the time being, whereas Adams sent off a strong endorsement to John Jay that was to be widely quoted at home.†
Subsection 2.7.4
To judge by their correspondence he might still have been in France.†
Subsection 3.8.3 *
Nowhere in his correspondence with Adams did Jefferson suggest he was suffering anything like what Adams had predicted retirement to Monticello would do to him.†
Subsection 3.8.4
As ever, a very considerable part of her time was devoted to correspondence with the rest of the family, about whom she reported to John, seldom withholding her own opinions.†
Subsection 3.9.1
John Marshall had said much the same thing, and so had John Quincy in some of his correspondence with his father, but as Adams was to write, the assurances of Gerry—"my own ambassador"—were "more positive, more explicit, and decisive."†
Subsection 3.9.4
He devoted himself almost entirely to official duties, maintaining steady correspondence with Secretary Marshall in particular.†
Subsection 3.10.5
Abigail was not to expect much in the way of correspondence from him, Adams told her.†
Subsection 3.10.6
A correspondent for the Massachusetts Spy observed in a letter from Washington that numbers of Adams's friends wished he had not departed so abruptly.†
Subsection 3.10.6 *

correspondent = reporter
THE RESUMPTION of correspondence with Benjamin Rush was one of the happiest events of Adams's life in retirement.†
Subsection 3.11.3

correspondence = communication by written letters or messages
In the course of his correspondence with Adams, Rush had already related several dreams of his own.†
Subsection 3.11.3
Jefferson, in his continuing correspondence with Adams, had observed that old and worn as they were they must expect that "here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring will give way."†
Subsection 3.12.1
In the exchange of correspondence with Jefferson he continued to be by far the more productive, sending off thirteen letters to Monticello in the year 1819, for example, or more than two for every one from Jefferson.†
Subsection 3.12.3
You cannot be, I know, nor do I wish to see you, an inactive spectator......We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.†
Subsection 1.1.1
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.†
Subsection 1.1.1
Correspondence was maddeningly slow and unreliable.†
Subsection 1.1.1
Nothing written in her own hand would survive—no letters, diaries, or legal papers with her signature—nor any correspondence addressed to her by any of her family, and so, since it is also known that letters were frequently read aloud to her, there is reason to believe that Susanna Boylston Adams was illiterate.†
Subsection 1.1.2
"Her face and heart have no correspondence," he wrote.†
Subsection 1.1.2
In the privacy of correspondence, he would address her as "Ever Dear Diana" or "Miss Adorable."†
Subsection 1.1.2
She could quote poetry more readily than could John Adams, and over a lifetime would quote her favorites again and again in correspondence, often making small, inconsequential mistakes, an indication that rather than looking passages up, she was quoting from memory.†
Subsection 1.1.2
Though he sailed through with little discomfort, she worried excessively and they corresponded nearly every day, Adams reminding her to be sure to have his letters "smoked," on the chance they carried contamination.†
Subsection 1.1.2
Starting in November, nearly everything written or printed on paper other than private correspondence and books—all pamphlets, newspapers, advertisements, deeds, diplomas, bills, bonds, all legal documents, ship's papers, even playing cards—were required to carry revenue stamps, some costing as much as ten pounds.†
Subsection 1.1.2
Independence had been talked about privately and alluded to in correspondence, but rarely spoken of directly in public declamation, or in print.†
Subsection 1.2.2
"Who is the author of Common Sense?" asked a correspondent from South Carolina in the Philadelphia Evening Post.†
Subsection 1.2.2
To judge by what was in the newspapers and the correspondence of the delegates, the signing never took place.†
Subsection 1.3.1
What expressions of worry or affection or frustration, what details of his own health he confided in the privacy of his letters to Martha Jefferson, or she to him, were not to be known, as he would one day, for reasons he never expressed, burn all their correspondence.†
Subsection 1.3.2
What, in fact, was most interesting, as expressed repeatedly in his diary and private correspondence—and what seems to have struck him as most unexpected—was how very much about France he found appealing, how much he did truly love about the French and their approach to life.†
Subsection 2.4.3
His masterly acquaintance with the French language, his extensive correspondence in France, his great experience in life, his wisdom, his prudence, caution; his engaging addresses, united to his unshaken firmness in the present American system of politics and war, point him out as the fittest character for this momentous undertaking.†
Subsection 2.4.3
In all that he wrote in correspondence in his first nine months in France, Adams never criticized Franklin; and inclined as he may have been at times to side with Arthur Lee, he steadfastly refused to do so.†
Subsection 2.4.3
With little to do of a diplomatic nature, he took hold of administrative duties, striving to straighten out accounts and expedite correspondence, no less determined than he had been on board the Boston to see a badly run ship put in order.†
Subsection 2.4.3
But, as with all correspondence, months must pass before he knew if any of the shipments were reaching her.†
Subsection 2.4.3
They had met earlier at Passy, corresponded over naval matters, and Jones, quite unjustly, had decided that Adams, in his role ascommissioner, was conspiring against him.†
Subsection 2.4.3
In Lovell's defense, it could be said that other men, too, would, as time went on, find Abigail Adams an irresistible correspondent—young John Thaxter, as an example, and most notably Thomas Jefferson.†
Subsection 2.4.4
From his rooms on the Rue de Richelieu, Adams issued almost daily correspondence, writing at times two and three letters a day, these addressed to President Samuel Huntington and filled with reports on British politics, British and French naval activities, or his own considered views on European affairs.†
Subsection 2.5.1
In lengthy correspondence on the matter, he specified that the house be "large, roomy, and handsome, fit for the Witel des Etats-Unis d'Amerique.†
Subsection 2.5.2
Any connection he had with the larger struggle was through correspondence.†
Subsection 2.6.3
They carried on correspondence, drew up reports, and, as obliged, appeared each Tuesday at the King's levee at Versailles, where afterward they dined with the Comte de Vergennes and the rest of the diplomatic corps.†
Subsection 2.6.4
Writing to a correspondent at home, Adams said philosophically, "Public life is like a long journey, in which we have immense tracks of waste countries to pass through for a very few grand and beautiful prospects.†
Subsection 2.6.4
There would be further work to transact between them, further correspondence to maintain.†
Subsection 2.6.4
To Jefferson, with whom she had commenced regular correspondence, Abigail described the atmosphere as "not the pleasantest in the world."†
Subsection 2.7.1
There was indeed "a new order of things arisen in the world," Adams emphasized to another correspondent at home, but British statesmen refused to comprehend this.†
Subsection 2.7.1
Correspondence between Grosvenor Square and Paris remained steady and candid.†
Subsection 2.7.2
One long letter from Adams was devoted to Portugal's need for American timber, tar, turpentine, and saltfish, as well as the corresponding future market in America for Portuguese wine and olive oil.†
Subsection 2.7.2
Increasingly their time and correspondence was taken up by concerns over American shipping in the Mediterranean and demands for tribute made by the Barbary States of North Africa—Algiers, Tripoli, Tunis, and Morocco.†
Subsection 2.7.2

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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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