The Letters of St. Jerome.

 Letter II. To Theodosius and the Rest of the Anchorites.

  Letter III. To Rufinus the Monk. 

 Letter IV. To Florentius.

 Letter V. To Florentius.

 Letter VI. To Julian, a Deacon of Antioch.

  Letter VII. To Chromatius, Jovinus, and Eusebius. 

 Letter VIII. To Niceas, Sub-Deacon of Aquileia.

 Letter IX. To Chrysogonus, a Monk of Aquileia.

 Letter X. To Paul, an Old Man of Concordia.

 Letter XI. To the Virgins of Æmona.

 Letter XII. To Antony, Monk.

 Letter XIII. To Castorina, His Maternal Aunt.

 Letter XIV. To Heliodorus, Monk.

 Letter XV. To Pope Damasus.

 Letter XVI. To Pope Damasus.

 Letter XVII. To the Presbyter Marcus.

 Letter XVIII. To Pope Damasus.

 Letter XIX. From Pope Damasus.

 Letter XX. To Pope Damasus.

 Letter XXI. To Damasus

 Letter XXII. To Eustochium.

 Letter XXIII. To Marcella.

 Letter XXIV. To Marcella.

 Letter XXV. To Marcella.

 Letter XXVI. To Marcella.

 Letter XXVII. To Marcella.

 Letter XXVIII. To Marcella.

 Letter XXIX. To Marcella.

 Letter XXX. To Paula.

 Letter XXXI. To Eustochium.

 Letter XXXII. To Marcella.

 Letter XXXIII. To Paula.

 Letter XXXIV. To Marcella.

 Letter XXXV. From Pope Damasus.

 Letter XXXVI. To Pope Damasus.

 Letter XXXVII. To Marcella.

 Letter XXXVIII. To Marcella.

 Letter XXXIX. To Paula.

 Letter XL. To Marcella.

 Letter XLI. To Marcella.

 Letter XLII. To Marcella.

 Letter XLIII. To Marcella.

 Letter XLIV. To Marcella.

 Letter XLV. To Asella.

 Letter XLVI. Paula and Eustochium to Marcella.

 Letter XLVII. To Desiderius.

 Letter XLVIII. To Pammachius.

 Letter XLIX. To Pammachius.

 Letter L. To Domnio.

 Letter LI. From Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, in Cyprus, to John, Bishop of Jerusalem.

 Letter LII. To Nepotian.

 Letter LIII. To Paulinus.

 Letter LIV. To Furia.

 Letter LV. To Amandus.

 Letter LVI. From Augustine.

 Letter LVII. To Pammachius on the Best Method of Translating.

 Letter LVIII. To Paulinus.

 Letter LIX. To Marcella.

 Letter LX. To Heliodorus.

 Letter LXI. To Vigilantius.

 Letter LXII. To Tranquillinus.

 Letter LXIII. To Theophilus.

 Letter LXIV. To Fabiola.

 Letter LXV. To Principia.

 Letter LXVI. To Pammachius.

 Letter LXVII. From Augustine.

 Letter LXVIII. To Castrutius.

 Letter LXIX. To Oceanus.

 Letter LXX. To Magnus an Orator of Rome.

 Letter LXXI. To Lucinius.

 Letter LXXII. To Vitalis.

 Letter LXXIII. To Evangelus.

 Letter LXXIV. To Rufinus of Rome.

 Letter LXXV. To Theodora.

 Letter LXXVI. To Abigaus.

 Letter LXXVII. To Oceanus.

 Letter LXXVIII. To Fabiola.

 Letter LXXIX. To Salvina.

 Letter LXXX. From Rufinus to Macarius.

 Letter LXXXI. To Rufinus.

 Letter LXXXII. To Theophilus Bishop of Alexandria.

 Letter LXXXIII. From Pammachius and Oceanus.

 Letter LXXXIV. To Pammachius and Oceanus.

 Letter LXXXV. To Paulinus.

 Letter LXXXVI. To Theophilus.

 Letter LXXXVII. From Theophilus to Jerome.

 Letter LXXXVIII. To Theophilus.

 Letter LXXXIX. From Theophilus to Jerome.

 Letter XC. From Theophilus to Epiphanius.

 Letter XCI. From Epiphanius to Jerome.

 Letter XCII. The Synodical Letter of Theophilus to the Bishops of Palestine and of Cyprus.

 Letter XCIII. From the Bishops of Palestine to Theophilus.

 Letter XCIV. From Dionysius to Theophilus.

 Letter XCV. From Pope Anastasius to Simplicianus.

 Letter XCVI. From Theophilus.

 Letter XCVII. To Pammachius and Marcella.

 Letter XCVIII. From Theophilus.

 Letter XCIX. To Theophilus.

 Letter C. From Theophilus.

 Letter CI. From Augustine.

 Letter CII. To Augustine.

 Letter CIII. To Augustine.

 Letter CIV. From Augustine.

 Letter CV. To Augustine.

 Letter CVI. To Sunnias and Fretela.

 Letter CVII. To Laeta.

 Letter CVIII. To Eustochium.

 Letter CIX. To Riparius.

 Letter CX. From Augustine.

 Letter CXI. From Augustine to Præsidius.

 Letter CXII. To Augustine.

 Letter CXIII. From Theophilus to Jerome.

 Letter CXIV. To Theophilus.

 Letter CXV. To Augustine.

 Letter CXVI. From Augustine.

 Letter CXVII. To a Mother and Daughter Living in Gaul.

 Letter CXVIII. To Julian.

 Letter CXIX. To Minervius and Alexander.

  Letter CXX. To Hedibia. 

 Letter CXXI. To Algasia.

 Letter CXXII. To Rusticus.

 Letter CXXIII. To Ageruchia.

 Letter CXXIV. To Avitus.

 Letter CXXV. To Rusticus.

 Letter CXXVI. To Marcellinus and Anapsychia.

 Letter CXXVII. To Principia.

 Letter CXXVIII. To Gaudentius.

 Letter CXXIX. To Dardanus.

 Letter CXXX. To Demetrias.

 Letter CXXXI. From Augustine.

 Letter CXXXII. From Augustine.

 Letter CXXXIII. To Ctesiphon.

 Letter CXXXIV. To Augustine.

 Letter CXXXV. From Pope Innocent to Aurelius.

 Letter CXXXVI. From Pope Innocent to Jerome.

 Letter CXXXVII. From Pope Innocent to John, Bishop of Jerusalem.

 Letter CXXXVIII. To Riparius.

 Letter CXXXIX. To Apronius.

 Letter CXL. To Cyprian the Presbyter.

 Letter CXLI. To Augustine

 Letter CXLII. To Augustine.

 Letter CXLIII. To Alypius and Augustine.

 Letter CXLIV. From Augustine to Optatus.

 Letter CXLV. To Exuperantius.

 Letter CXLVI. To Evangelus.

 Letter CXLVII. To Sabinianus.

 Letter CXLVIII. To the Matron Celantia.

Letter VIII. To Niceas, Sub-Deacon of Aquileia.

Niceas, the sub-deacon, had accompanied Jerome to the East but had now returned home. In after-years he became bishop of Aquileia in succession to Chromatius. The date of the letter is 374 a.d.

The comic poet Turpilius  1  Turpilius, who appears to have been a dramatist of some note, died in 101 b.c. He is mentioned by Jerome in his edition of the Eusebian Chronicle. says of the exchange of letters that it alone makes the absent present. The remark, though occurring in a work of fiction, is not untrue. For what more real presence—if I may so speak—can there be between absent friends than speaking to those whom they love in letters, and in letters hearing their reply? Even those Italian savages, the Cascans of Ennius, who—as Cicero tells us in his books on rhetoric—hunted their food like beasts of prey, were wont, before paper and parchment came into use, to exchange letters written on tablets of wood roughly planed, or on strips of bark torn from the trees. For this reason men called letter-carriers tablet-bearers,  2  Tabellarii, from tabella, a small tablet. and letter-writers bark-users,  3  Librarii, from liber, bark. because they used the bark of trees. How much more then are we, who live in a civilized age, bound not to omit a social duty performed by men who lived in a state of gross savagery, and were in some respects entirely ignorant of the refinements of life. The saintly Chromatius, look you, and the reverend Eusebius, brothers as much by compatibility of disposition as by the ties of nature, have challenged me to diligence by the letters which they have showered upon me. You, however, who have but just left me, have not merely unknit our new-made friendship; you have torn it asunder—a process which Lælius, in Cicero’s treatise,  4  Cic. Lælius, 76. wisely forbids. Can it be that the East is so hateful to you that you dread the thought of even your letters coming hither? Wake up, wake up, arouse yourself from sleep, give to affection at least one sheet of paper. Amid the pleasures of life at home sometimes heave a sigh over the journeys which we have made together. If you love me, write in answer to my prayer. If you are angry with me, though angry still write. I find my longing soul much comforted when I receive a letter from a friend, even though that friend be out of temper with me.

1 Turpilius, who appears to have been a dramatist of some note, died in 101 b.c. He is mentioned by Jerome in his edition of the Eusebian Chronicle.
2 Tabellarii, from tabella, a small tablet.
3 Librarii, from liber, bark.
4 Cic. Lælius, 76.