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68 Madison Avenue
Novr 16th ‘79
O, Jervy!
Where ist thou? I have twized called at your door with my quintuple rap, and no response! I’ll rap no more ‘till I hear for sartain that you are thar. Tonight we will try to find Gifford. Tho’ I am tired & very loungy---after a double-day’s duty yester: Hamlet at the Matinee & Ruy Blas, with Petruchio, at
night, and I feel more like sleep than chatting, yet the girls want an airing & we owe the Giffs a call; as, I shall shake myself together & make it.
I intended to see you immediately after my arrival home therefore did not answer your last letter which I received---I think---a day or two before I left Philadelphia. Are the Vaux folks here & where?
This winter, I hope, we will get at the Hamlet jaw & eye, & also get up 3 more portraits: Petruchio, [Jul?] Cesar & Benedict---which will fill the box & make my set complete---at least sufficiently so,---there are, I believe, some twenty odd characters in my repertory; but some I very seldom act. The houses are nightly jammed & I shall continue Hamlet all this week---perhaps longer.
I’m not in a letter mood tonight & scratch this off hastily to ascertain your whereabouts & to let you know that we still live & love you.
Remember us very kindly to your parents & the brothers & sisters, and count on me as ever thine.
Edwin Booth
P.S.
Do I usually add the Booth? I forget---if not kick it out.