This letter was from Honoré de Balzac.

Each word was written by my hand.

Dimensions: 30W x 1.5D x 70H in.

Frame constructed from glass

Silver finish

Rectangular shaped mirror

Beveled edges: leaning & standing floor design

The letter:

Oh! how I should have liked to remain

 half a day kneeling at your feet with

 my head on your lap,

 dreaming beautiful dreams,

 telling you my thoughts with languor,

 with rapture, sometimes not speaking at all,

 but pressing my lips to your gown! . . . 

O, my well-beloved Eva, 

the day of my days, the light of my nights, 

 Any hope, my adored one,

 my entirely beloved one, my only darling,

 when can I see you? 

Is it an illusion? Have I seen you? 

Ye gods! how I love your accent, 

Just a shade thick, your mouth of kindness,

 of voluptuousness – allow me to say it of you, 

my angel of love.

 I am working night and day 

in order to go and see you 

for a fortnight in December. 

I shall pass over the Jura covered with snow; 

but I shall be thinking of the snowy shoulders 

of my love, my well-beloved. 

Ah! to breathe in your hair, to hold your hand, 

to clasp you in my arms –

 it is from these I get my courage!

 Some of my friends here are stupefied 

at the savage will-power 

I am displaying at this moment.

 Ah! they do not know my darling, 

she whose mere image robs grief of its stings. 

One kiss, my angel of the earth, 

one kiss tasted slowly, 

and then good-night!”

Honoré de Balzac