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"Epistolary" (= of, relating to, or based on letters) is sometimes wrongly made "epistolatory," especially in British English -- e.g.:
"Both were hypochondriacs -- an important epistolatory [read 'epistolary’] bond -- Jefferson suffering from headaches, Madison from bowel trouble." Paul Johnson, "Founding Fathers," Daily Telegraph, 23 Apr. 1995, at 9.

"The author has transformed the historical Pacienza into the protagonist of her remarkably interesting novel The Secret Book of Grazia Dei Rossi, an epistolatory [read 'epistolary'] tale of an Italian Jewish proto-feminist torn between duty and love." Sharon Gibson, "Love, Duty Drive Renaissance Novel," Houston Chron., 21 Sept. 1997, Zest §, at 27.
A cognate of "epistle" (= letter), the word is pronounced /i-PIS-tuh-ler-ee/.
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Quotation of the Day: "Just as a real writer takes what he or she needs from a teacher, so, too, a writing teacher gives what he or she can. It is not my duty to tailor my teaching to each individual student; it is not my duty to attempt to make writers out of my students. It is my duty to be a certain kind of a teacher, to try to be consistent in the values that I try to convey to my students, and to let them use me as they will -- as I used my teachers." David Huddle, "Taking What You Need, Giving What You Can: The Writer as Student and Teacher," in Writers on Writing 74, 75 (Robert Pack & Jay Parini eds., 1991).