This is a personal selection of his letters which I am translating from Latin. The most recent translation is at the top.
For a definitive translation of all Erasmus' writings, see the volumes of "The Collected Works of Erasmus", University of Toronto Press, 1974-.
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Erasmus to an unknown person, August 1497?

Erasmus to the Faculty of Theology at Paris, 1526
Erasmus tries to face down continuing criticism by appealing to the Faculty as a body.

Erasmus to Noel Beda, April 1525
Erasmus defends his humanist programme of biblical translation against one of his fiercest theologian critics.

Erasmus to Martin Luther, May 1524
A spikey letter to Luther, complaining about the excesses of the reformers.

Erasmus to William, Lord Mountjoy, February 1499
Erasmus' winter journey to Tournehem castle.

Erasmus to Jacob Batt, February 1500
This a lengthy description of a journey Erasmus made in northern France, during which he is afraid that he will be robbed and murdered.

Erasmus to Andrea Amonio, August 1511
Erasmus finds the beer and wine in Cambridge not to his taste.

Erasmus to Johannes Caesarius, March 1518
Erasmus is complaining about the amount of work he has taken on.

Erasmus to Wolfgang Lachner and John Froben, August 1517
In this letter, Erasmus is trying to get the Froben Press to be better organised in its dealings with him. He also gives the sense of being in the thick of literary activity, producing work of his own, negotiating with his press and ordering from the Frankfurt book fair.

Erasmus to Beatus Rhenatus, September 1518
Erasmus describes his long journey from Basle to Louvain.