What about books which happen to be correspondence, but which are not of a biographical nature? For instance, Music in the Western World : A History in Documents
is made up largely of correspondence, but there is very little
biographical information in it -- prossibly less biography than in a
typical history book. Certainly if someone interested in it would be
browsing in music history, not biography. There are probably much better
examples out there -- works which collect a correspondence about a
particular subject for the sake of looking at the discussion, not for
looking at the people making it.
Is it necessary to state that
correspondence goes here? If a work containing correspondence is
biographical, then it clearly goes here without saying so. And if a work
containing correspondence is not biographical, then I'm not sure this
is where it belongs.
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