ABSTRACT
During the Archibald Hamilton Rowan's residence at Paris, he had become acquainted with Mary Wollstonecraft, who had visited France with the intention of making herself acquainted with the true state of that country, and lived in a small cottage close to Paris. There Mary came in contact with Mr. Imlay, an American, who paid his addresses to her; and partly as a safeguard against persecution, by being the wife of an American, Mary submitted to a republican marriage, and from that time was called Mrs. Imlay. We may well suppose that to a person so circumstanced as Rowan, in hopeless exile from all that he held most dear, and in the insupportable solitude and ennui of a great metropolis, the society of the lady to whom his letters have introduced us, would be highly appreciated, especially as he was one who could estimate female accomplishments.
