We shall have 200 pounds a year; when we find it run short, we must live, I suppose, upon love! Gratitude and admiration, all demand that I should love her FOR EVER.

We shall see you at York.

I will hear your arguments for matrimonialism, by which I am now almost convinced.

I can get lodgings at York, I suppose.

Direct to me at Graham's, 18 Sackville Street, Piccadilly." From a letter recently published by Mr.W.M.Rossetti (the University Magazine, February 1878), we further learn that Harriet, having fallen violently in love with her preceptor, had avowed her passion and flung herself into his arms.
It is clear from these documents, first, that Shelley was not deeply in love with Harriet when he eloped with her; secondly, that he was not prepared for the step; thirdly, that she induced him to take it; and fourthly, that he took it under a strong impression of her having been ill-treated.