correspondence

Letters or written messages sent between people.

• Please keep all correspondence.
• I found their correspondence in a drawer.
• The office handles correspondence from customers.

Similar words: letters, mail

Common phrases: business correspondence, personal correspondence, written correspondence

Friendly communication between people, often through letters or messages.

• We remain in correspondence.
• Their correspondence grew warmer over the years.
• She maintained friendly correspondence with her former teacher.

How to use it: in correspondence with someone (I am in correspondence with an old friend.)

Similar words: communication, contact

Common phrases: in correspondence, maintain correspondence, correspondence with someone, regular correspondence

Reports written for a newspaper, often about events in another place.

• The paper published foreign correspondence.
• His war correspondence described life near the front.
• Readers followed the correspondence from distant cities.

Similar words: reports, dispatches

Common phrases: foreign correspondence, war correspondence