I would want that our first meeting has made on us not explained impressions as the first supper at candles I think it a first step in the relations, then when we have had supper it would be possible to sit at the moon and to talk behind a glass perfect fault to the magnificent man with which it would be possible to carry out the stayed life with him.

No clue...

Not in these particular letters, but the style sounds similar:

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It's a very long quote. Where did you get it from?

It's almost embarrassing to say; it's a quote that was given to me by a woman whom I'm trying to get a date with. What's even more hysterical is that I majored in English and Poetry in College and I'm so far removed from that passion I'm useless.

My initial thoughts were that it's from Bronte' or Browning, which I would find respectable and original and not as obvious as say; Shakespeare.

Oh and I'm way too proud to ask her.

Well, even allowing for possible mistranscriptions and for apparently missing punctuation to be inserted somewhere, it doesn't read like anything written by a native speaker of English, let alone an author of the calibre you mention.

That other site, setting out the text of amorous letters written by someone called Irina Isakova (sounds Russian) to someone called John Glaser, came up when I googled the unusual reference to 'the first supper at candles'.

Googling another unusual phrase, 'the stayed life', comes up with a list of sites that all appear to contain letters written in struggling English by Russian women eager to be mail-order brides. (That's my very superficial impression from the site descriptions. I haven't opened them.)

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So my guess is that it's something of that nature written by a native Russian speaker. If your intended happens to be Russian, bingo! If not, you could be looking for the Russian equivalent of a needle in a haystack, even if this is a steppe in the right direction.

Ian



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Ian, it's a wild goose chase. Read "waste of time".

Les

Point taken, Les. I once saw a great Russian movie called 'The Geese Are Flying'.

Ian

Sorry, faulty memory. It was 'The Cranes Are Flying'. But I guess not much use chasing them either.

I remember watching The Cranes Are Flying way back when I was studying Russian at the Army Language School in Monterey, California. Lots of birch trees is all I can remember about it now.

Clearly, the lady in question was born elsewhere than an English-speaking country. Would it be possible to find out her native language? Might make the search easier, I mean.

This may not even help, though, translation oddities being what they are. See the following hits for excerpted phrases in Russian from the quote, for example:

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I appreciate the feedback. You make a good point it may be something as simple as a translation oddity. Thanks.

Interesting certain expressions within the quotation are unique, and very telling. I still believe though that someone is pulling your leg.

Les