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Footnotes:
[1] Dowden's "Life of Shelley."
[2] The child is in a subsequent letter called the "barrier girl,"
probably from a supposition that she owed her existence to this
interview.--W. G.
[3] This and the thirteen following letters appear to have been written
during a separation of several months; the date, Paris.--W. G.
[4] Some further letters, written during the remainder of the week, in a
similar strain to the preceding, appear to have been destroyed by the
person to whom they were addressed.--W. G.
[5] Imlay went to Paris on March 11, after spending a fortnight at Havre,
but he returned to Mary soon after the date of Letter XIX. In August he
went to Paris, where he was followed by Mary. In September Imlay visited
London on business.
[6] The child spoken of in some preceding letters, had now been born a
considerable time. She was born, May 14, 1794, and was named Fanny.--W. G.
[7] She means, "the latter more than the former."--W. G.
[8] This is the first of a series of letters written during a separation
of many months, to which no cordial meeting ever succeeded. They were sent
from Paris, and bear the address of London.--W. G.
[9] The person to whom the letters are addressed [Imlay], was about this
time at Ramsgate, on his return, as he professed, to Paris, when he was
recalled, as it should seem, to London, by the further pressure of
business now accumulated upon him.--W. G.
[10] This probably alludes to some expression of [Imlay] the person to
whom the letters are addressed, in which he treated as common evils,
things upon which the letter-writer was disposed to bestow a different
appellation.--W. G.
[11] This passage refers to letters written under a purpose of suicide,
and not intended to be opened till after the catastrophe.--W. G.
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_.
The word "an" was corrected to "am" on page 151.
The unmatched closing quotation mark on page 167 is presented as in the
original text.