Letter 21: To the most reverend and beloved sister, Abbess Eadburga, Boniface, least of the servants of God, loving greetings.

To the most reverend and beloved sister, Abbess Eadburga, Boniface, least of the servants of God, loving greetings. I pray Almighty God, the Rewarder of all good works, that when you reach the heavenly mansions and the everlasting tents He will repay you for all the generosity you have shown to me. For, many times, by your useful gifts of books and vestments, you have consoled and relieved me in my distress. And so I beg you to continue the good work you have begun by copying out for me in letters of gold the epistles of my lord, St. Peter, that a reverence and love of the Holy Scriptures may be impressed on the minds of the heathens to whom I preach, and that I may ever have before my gaze the words of him who guided me along this path. The materials [gold] needed for the copy I am sending by the priest Eoban. Deal, then, my dear sister, with this my request as you have so generously dealt with them in the past, so that here on earth your deeds may shine in letters of gold to the glory of our Father who is in heaven. For your well-being in Christ and for your continual progress in virtue I offer my prayers. (Tangl, 35)

To the most reverend and beloved sister, Abbess Eadburga, Boniface, least of the servants of God, loving greetings. I pray Almighty God, the Rewarder of all good works, that when you reach the heavenly mansions and the everlasting tents He will repay you for all the generosity you have shown to me. For, many times, by your useful gifts of books and vestments, you have consoled and relieved me in my distress. And so I beg you to continue the good work you have begun by copying out for me in letters of gold the epistles of my lord, St. Peter, that a reverence and love of the Holy Scriptures may be impressed on the minds of the heathens to whom I preach, and that I may ever have before my gaze the words of him who guided me along this path. The materials [gold] needed for the copy I am sending by the priest Eoban. Deal, then, my dear sister, with this my request as you have so generously dealt with them in the past, so that here on earth your deeds may shine in letters of gold to the glory of our Father who is in heaven. For your well-being in Christ and for your continual progress in virtue I offer my prayers. (Tangl, 35)