Abstract. If N is an M -faithful R-module, then there is an order-preserving correspondence between the closed R-submodules of N and the closed Ssubmodules of Hom R (M, N), where S = End R M.There is a considerable body of research dealing with correspondences between the lattice of submodules of an R-module M and the lattice of left ideals of its endomorphism ring S. This literature includes the well-known Morita theory and its generalizations. When a complete correspondence between all submodules and all left ideals fails to hold, one may still ask whether there is a correspondence between designated sublattices of submodules and left ideals. One particular situation that has attracted much attention has been cases when there is a correspondence between the closed (i.e., essentially closed) submodules of M and the closed left ideals of S. It is known that such a correspondence exists when M is a semisimple module (an elementary observation), when M is a free module [2], when M is a nonsingular retractable module satisfying an additional condition [7], and when M is a nondegenerate module [8]. This article began as a search for a conceptual link among these special cases. Eventually, it was realized that a common denominator is the notion of a self-faithful module, a concept first introduced for generators in [6], and recently exploited to good effect in [3], [4] and [5].The principal contribution of this article is to demonstrate that a natural correspondence of closed submodules with closed left ideals occurs whenever M is a self-faithful module. In fact, taking a cue from the approach in [1], we show more generally in Theorem 1.2 that when N is an M -faithful R-module, then there exists an order-preserving correspondence between the closed R-submodules of M and the closed S-submodules of Hom R (M, N ), where S = End R M . Taking N = M then specializes to the self-faithful case. Additional examples of M being self-faithful, and of the desired correspondence holding, occur when M is a quasi-projective retractable module (Proposition 1.2 in [3]) and when M is a polyform retractable module (Corollary 2.3).Of purely technical interest is the fact that the results contained in this paper remain true even over rings which fail to have an identity element.