AFFECTIONATELY YOURS, FANNY"
SIR,—With reference to Mr. Gibbs's letter, in which he protests against " misrepresentations " in my review of his book, I have to point out that he is curiously and incautiously mistaken. The quotations about Fanny's skin and teeth and her training by a sergeant, to which I referred, are not in the first person, they are not quotations from the Records, and they do not occur on pages 46 and 47, but on page 35; they are, as I have correctly stated, the words of Mr. Gibbs himself. Further, I would also point out that although Fanny Kemble (like Marguerite Power) was a plain girl, she became an extremely handsome woman. And finally, I would point out that the spelling " Misselonghi," no matter by whom it is employed, is wholly indefensible: the choice is between " Misso- longhi "—as Mr. Gibbs himself actually spells it in one place—and " Mesolongion." It is a pity that Mr. Gibbs is not better acquainted with his own book.—Yours faithfully, C. E. VULLIAMY. West Horsley, Surrey.
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