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This dissertation is a survey of the more than six hundred letters that form the surviving epistolographical output of the Merovingian era, i.e. circa AD 500-750. These pieces of correspondence have been gleaned primarily from the epistolae, auctores antiquissimi, passiones vitaeque sanctorum aevi Merowingici, and formulae Merowingici et Karolini aevi sections in the monumenta Germaniae historica; a few have been taken from the libri historiarum decem of Gregory of Tours. Much of this corpus has never before been translated into English, or indeed into any modern language. It has also been underutilized by scholars. Although work has been done on some of the collections in isolation, no study to date has approached the material as a whole. This study focuses on the letter as a conveyor of personal and private information, and the letter collections as a corpus that contains important historical, sociological, and cultural implications for our understanding of Merovingian Gaul.