What are roman letters?

Some articles on letters:

Development of The New Testament Canon
... version of Luke (the Gospel of Marcion) and ten of Paul's letters, while rejecting the Old Testament entirely ... Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertullian held the letters of Paul to be on par with the Hebrew scriptures as being divinely inspired, yet others rejected ... The books considered to be authoritative by Irenaeus included the four gospels and many of the letters of Paul, although, based on the arguments Irenaeus ...

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