These "Letters not for you to read" portray a loving interaction, without explaining whether there's any close link of communion. Written as letters, there are apparently no shared real-life experiences between the characters. The writer explains that the person who inspired her should not read the content of these letters. A doubt still lingers: will a tender understanding be reached, or will these emotions languish, unrequited? As she explores and expresses her deepest and most personal feelings, a question arises: is this character imaginary, or real? Blending literary texts with artworks in a variety of media (collages, paintings, illustrations, drawings, and even stitching), the author strives to convey her anguish, afflictions, and contradictions to the reader. Experiments explore countless feelings related to love, symbolizing the satisfaction and suffering, marvels, miseries, and mysteries that are inherent to passion and desire.
Handcrafted by the author, the collage artworks illustrating each of these "Letters not for you to read" were exhibited at the Ateliê Piloto studio in Rio de Janeiro during the launch of an edition of this book in its original Portuguese on July 5, 2025.

Marilita Gnecco de Camargo Braga was born in 1950, in São Paulo, Brazil. A civil engineer with a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ) in Brazil. She also holds a PhD in Transportation Engineering from Imperial College, London, UK. She devoted her professional life to research and teaching in the Transportation area at the Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering Institute (COPPE/UFRJ).
A keen photographer, her work has been shown in three exhibitions: British Landscapes, 1991, at the Sociedade Brasileira de Cultura Inglesa English culture institute; Exit, 1998, at the Incubadora de Empresas business incubator, Rio de Janeiro Federal University (UFRJ); and Urbano, 2000, at the Conjunto Cultural da Caixa culture center in Rio de Janeiro.
After retiring in 2016, she began to write, publishing Patio Andaluz in 2024 (Mórula), followed by Letters Not For You To Read. Blending words with art through techniques such as collage and painting, she uses watercolors and even stitching to portray the pains, joys, and expectations expressed in these letters.