Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Correspondent

Correspondent (-ent) , adjective

[Compare French correspondant.]

Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable; in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.
Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. — Hooker
As fast the correspondent passions rise. — Thomson
I will be correspondent to command. — Shakespeare

Correspondent , noun

1.
One with whom intercourse is carried on by letter. — Macaulay
2.
One who communicates information, etc., by letter or telegram to a newspaper or periodical.
3.
(Commerce) One who carries on commercial intercourse by letter or telegram with a person or firm at a distance.