GODWIN AND MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—In your second notice of the life of Godwin, it is state& that Fanny Blood was married to a mercantile clerk, whereas her husband, Mr. Hugh Skeys, was a Lisbon merchant ; and although driven to support herself as an artist through the extravagance of her father, she was not "a poor girl" in the sense conveyed in your review. Her mother was a member of a high family, and previous to her marriage was attended, when on foot, by a black servant,—the usual accompaniment at that time of persons of rank and fashion. Fanny Blood's genius as an artist was of a high order. The pigments used by her were of her own preparing, and their purity and fastness are evidenced in the fact that drawings. of hers retain to this day the vividness of the colouring in which they first appeared.—I am, Sir, &c., William BLOOD:
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