A Romantic Love Letter written by John Ruskin to Euphemia Gray.

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written December 15, 1847

Ah, Effie -

You have such sad, wicked ways without knowing it - such sweet silver undertones of innocent voice - that when one hears, one is lost - such slight - short - inevitable - arrowy glances from under the bent eyelashes - such gentle changes of sunny and shadowy expression about the lovely lips - such desperate ways of doing the most innocent things - mercy on us - to hear you ask anybody "whether they take sugar with their peaches"? - don't you recollect my being "temporarily insane" for all the day afterwards - after hearing you ask such a thing….

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John Ruskin, English writer, artist, designer and philosopher, to his future wife Euphemia Gray.