One letter is certainly available in English: the Oxford World's Classics volume Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert carries a translation of the Letter to Egbert (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20letter%20to%20Egbert&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 The computistical and exegetical letters are not: HOLLIS 'Bede Epistola ad Wicthedum' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Bede%20Epistola%20ad%20Wicthedum&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns only Bedae Opera de temporibus (Mediaeval Academy of America, 1943), a Latin edition, and no English rendering of the letters to Plegwin, Wicthed, Acca or Eusebius is recorded. The catalogue therefore supports 'partial' for the corpus as a whole, with the English dependence falling almost entirely on the pastoral Letter to Egbert. The letters are printed among Bede's works in Migne's edition, but I did not verify which volume carries the complete corpus and so record no etext.
Bede's letters are short but load-bearing: the Letter to Egbert is the sharpest contemporary critique of the Northumbrian church, and the letters to Plegwin and Wicthed are where Bede defends his computistical chronology in his own voice. A reader who wants Bede the correspondent, rather than Bede the exegete, has essentially one letter in English.
| Edition / series |
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| The Ecclesiastical History of the English People; The Greater Chronicle; Bede's Letter to Egbert · Oxford World's Classics · 1994 |
| Record | Citation |
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| The biographical writings and letters of Venerable Bede | Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. "The biographical writings and letters of Venerable Bede." London : J. Bohn, 1845. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990109240770203941 |
| The letters of John Bede Polding OSB | Polding, John Bede, 1794-1877. "The letters of John Bede Polding OSB." Glebe Point, NSW : Sisters of the Good Samaritan, 1994-1998. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990062144180203941 |
| The eye of faith : the pastoral letters of John Bede Polding | Polding, John Bede, 1794-1877. "The eye of faith : the pastoral letters of John Bede Polding." Kilmore, Australia ; Norwalk, Conn. : Lowden Pub. Co., [1977]. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990008316600203941 |
| The complete works of Venerable Bede, in the original Latin | Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. "The complete works of Venerable Bede, in the original Latin." London, Whittaker, 1843-44. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990028194060203941 |
| Bede, the Venerable | Brown, George Hardin, 1931-. "Bede, the Venerable." Boston : Twayne, c1987. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990009669110203941 |