PLAIDY

South Staffordshire, sending her autograph [not separately present], The witch-hunting scenes in DAUGHTERS OF SATAN are founded on fact... the action taken against suspected witches in this country was considerably milder than in Continental countries... Mrs. Brownrigg was, as you say, a 'criminal exception', but she lived at a later period than that of my Mistress Alton... MADAME SERPENT... is still in print... the story of Catherine de' Medici in her early years, and I hope you will read it, as THE ITALIAN WOMAN, a story set in the middle years of her life, is appearing next month. QUEEN JEZEBEL, including the terrible Saint Bartholomew... is in the hands of my publishers, and thanking him for writing such an interesting letter, 10 x 8, 12c Albert Court, Kensington Gore, London, S.W.7, 31st October