The correspondence of authors became increasingly recognized as a form of literary output throughout the eighteenth century. Compared to the output of other significant writers of the eighteenth century such as associates Edmund Burke and Samuel Johnson, only a small corpus of Goldsmith’s letters remains. This chapter gives an overview of Goldsmith’s extant correspondence, places it into discrete clusters, and considers why so few letters remain. The chapter suggests that the brevity of Goldsmith’s life prevented him from developing an equivalent epistolary vocation to his peers.