Cor`re*spond"ence (-sp?nd"ens),
n. [Cf. F. correspondance.]
1. 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.
Bacon.
To facilitate correspondence between one
part of London and another, was not originally one of the objects
of the post office.
Macaulay.
2. The letters which pass between
correspondents.
3. Mutual adaptation, relation, or
agreement, of one thing to another; agreement; congruity;
fitness; relation.