The letters were written in 1843 by James Maitland Balfour and Lady Blanche Cecil, whose eldest son Arthur would go on to be prime minister.
A number of Victorian love letters written by the parents of a former prime minister are being published online for Valentine's Day.
The letters were written in 1843 by James Maitland Balfour, then MP for Haddington in East Lothian, and his bride-to-be, Lady Blanche Cecil, the daughter of the Marquess of Salisbury.
Mr Balfour proposed and she accepted, which triggered a flurry of excited letters between family members. There are congratulations from his parents, his brother-in-law and even her nine-year-old brother. Mr Balfour wrote:"My dearest Lady Blanche, I cannot leave town with no chance of seeing you again for many months without doing that which must either make me the happiest or most wretched of men.
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