The following book is a collection of letter-based correspondence between Ewelina Rzewuska and Honoré de Balzac before their marriage. She married landowner Wacaw Haski when she was a teenager. Haski, who was about 20 years her senior, suffered from depression. In the late 1820s, Haska began reading Balzac's novels, and in 1832, she sent him an anonymous letter. This began a decades-long correspondence in which Haska and Balzac expressed a deep mutual affectionwhich is collated in this publication.