This is the second and final volume of the letters to Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. It covers the years 1841-1848 and completes the edition of her entire correspondence inasfar as it is extant or traceable. The letters collected here, many of which have never been published before, cast light both on Droste-Hülshoff's socio-historical background and on the position she held in the literary world of her time.