A Romantic Love Letter written by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Mary Godwin.

It is believed that this romantic love letter was written October 27, 1844

Oh my dearest love why are our pleasures so short and so uninterrupted? How long is this to last? Know you my best Mary that I feel myself in your absence almost degraded to the level of the vulgar and impure.

I feel their vacant stiff eyeballs fixed upon me - until I seem to have been infected with a loathsome meaning… to inhale a sickness that subdues me to languor. Oh! those redeeming eyes of Mary that they might beam upon me before I sleep!

Praise my forbearance oh beloved one that I do not rashly fly to you… and at least secure a moment's bliss - Wherefore should I delay … do you not long to meet me? All that is exalted and buoyant in my nature urges me towards you… reproaches me with cold delay… laughs at all fear and spurns to dream of prudence! Why am I not with you? - Alas we must not meet.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, to Mary Godwin, English novelist. Three months earlier they had eloped. The couple toured Europe for six weeks and the couple was heavily in debt. Shelley as forced to go into hiding to avoid the bailiffs.