Cóng zhèxiē shūxìn zhōng, kěyǐ kuījiàn zuòzhě dāngshí de xīnjìng.
From these letters we can glimpse the author's state of mind at the time.
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Mostly figurative in writing: through a small piece of evidence you 窥见 a person's thoughts or the life of a period, as in 窥见一斑 'to see one spot of the leopard'. 窥 on its own means to peep.