PHP help Quotations, Quotations, Quotations

Hello, I am having a small issue with posting from forms; It goes like such: I have a form in which a user can type in a message and in a hidden text field a link is sent, then in the page the form goes to it sends and email to a mailing list with the message and a link underneath bottom. However when I submit a hyperlink in a form like <input type="hidden" name="link" value=<a href="http://localhost/knewsl/<?php echo $row_Recordset1['path']; ?>" > It is received in the next page with a "\" before every " " " for example: <a href=\"http://localhost/knewsl/file.pdf\">Click here to view newsletter</a> - Which obviously doesn't work. I would be most grateful if anyone could help. Cheers, Simon