Lettres à une inconnue, Tome Deuxième / Précédée d'une étude sur P. Mérimée par H. Taine

A sequence of personal letters to an unnamed woman records the author's travel impressions, everyday ailments, social encounters, and observations on literature and art. The missives move between playful teasing and reflective melancholy, recounting visits to museums and salons, minor domestic vexations, and practical requests. Tone alternates intimacy and wit while recurring motifs of travel, solitude, cultural observation, and working habits emerge. Presented as consecutive epistles, the volume mixes anecdote, literary commentary, and private confidences to assemble a fragmentary portrait of the writer's life and sensibility rather than a continuous narrative.