DOCUMENT NO. 15.

Letter from Mrs. Edgar Saville, in San Francisco, to Mr. Edgar Saville, in Chicago:

CAL.  JARDINE’S

Monster Variety and Dramatic Combination.

ON THE ROAD.

G.W.K.  McCULLUM,
Treasurer
HI.  SAMUELS,
Stage Manager. 
FNO.  SHANKS,
Advance.

No dates filled except with first-class houses.

Hall owners will please consider silence a polite negative._

SAN FRANCISCO, January 29, 1863.

MY DEAR OLD MAN!—­Here we are in our second week at Frisco and you will be glad to know playing to steadily increasing biz, having signed for two weeks more, certain.  I didn’t like to mention it when I wrote you last, but things were very queer after we left Denver, and “Treasury” was a mockery till we got to Bluefoot Springs, which is a mining town, where we showed in the hotel dining-room.  Then there was a strike just before the curtain went up.  The house was mostly miners in red shirts and very exacting.  The sinews were forthcoming very quick my dear, and after that the ghost walked quite regular.  So now everything is bright, and you wont have to worry if Chicago doesn’t do the right thing by you.

I don’t find this engagement half as disagreeable as I expected.  Of course it aint so very nice travelling in a combination with variety talent but they keep to themselves and we regular professionals make a happy family that Barnum would not be ashamed of and quite separate and comfortable.  We don’t associate with any of them only with The Unique Mulligans wife, because he beats her.  So when he is on a regular she sleeps with me.

And talking of liquor dear old man, if you knew how glad and proud I was to see you writing so straight and steady and beautiful in your three last letters.  O, Im sure my darling if the boys thought of the little wife out on the road they wouldnt plague you so with the Enemy.  Tell Harry Atkinson this from me, he has a good kind heart but he is the worst of your friends.  Every night when I am dressing I think of you at Chicago, and pray you may never again go on the way you did that terrible night at Rochester.  Tell me dear, did you look handsome in Horatio?  You ought to have had Laertes instead of that duffing Merivale.

And now I have the queerest thing to tell you.  Jardine is going in for Indians and has secured six very ugly ones.  I mean real Indians, not professional.  They are hostile Comanshies or something who have just laid down their arms.  They had an insurrection in the first year of the War, when the troops went East, and they killed all the settlers and ranches and destroyed the canyons somewhere out in Nevada, and when they were brought here they had a wee little kid with them only four or five years old, but so sweet. They stole her and killed her parents and brought her up for their own in