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The edition includes all letters to Jean Paul (Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, 1763-1825), one of the most successful writers of the Goethe era, that have been handed down. The historical- critical edition of Jean Paul's works and letters, started by Eduard Berend in the twenties on behalf of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, is thus supplemented by the fourth section. The Letters from Jean Paul (third section) are placed alongside the answers, so that the received correspondence of the author will be available for the first time in its entirety. Slightly more than 2200 letters from nearly 400 correspondents have so far only been known to a third, mainly through 19th century publications in which they have been greatly shortened and editorially revised, often published in remote places. They document the author's dialogue with famous people such as Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Caroline and Johann Gottfried Herder, Charlotte von Kalb and Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim as well as the Prussian Queen Luise, Rahel Levin Varnhagen, Achim von Arnim or E. T. A. Hoffmann and with friends, publishers and enthusiastic readers of the Jean-Paul's oeuvres. Like those of Jean Paul, the letters are arranged in chronological order and published in eight volumes. The volumes contain text, commentary and indices. A final index volume for all correspondences is developed cumulatively and is available by the name "Potsdamer Jean-Paul-Register" on the Jean-Paul-Edition website.