as from,
4 Barton Street
Westminster.

August 21st. 1939

Dear Sir,

In response to your letter in the T.L.S. about
Rhoda Broughton, I thought you might be interested to
know that in my biography of Mary Shelley, I was able
to use extracts from the diaries of her son, Sir Percy
Florence Shelley and in one of these that is in the
book he records a dinner party at the Friths where
'Calderon, Rhoda Broughton and Burnand were there - first
meeting of the last two since the appearance of Burnand's
parodies of R. Broughton's novels in Punch.'

There may be other records of his meeting her which I
have in the MS. and could look up. I thought you might
be interested in the link with Shelley and the
Victorian ceebrities that his son knew, but I am sorry
I have nothing more substatial to contribute.