Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1877 — A Boy’s Letter to Booth. [ARTICLE]

A Boy’s Letter to Booth.

The following graceful letter, addressed to Mr. Edwin Booth, was sent to the office of the Utica Republican the other day, with the request that it should be given to the famous actor upon his expected arrival in that city : West School House, Prospect, December the eighth-th, Mr. Edward Booth. Dear Sur and friend : Heeling that you was going to come to Utica to perform in a play called Hamlet I would like too say that us boys is getting up a Exhibitun for the benefit of the diseased Soldiers and their widows und orphans and would like to engage you to take the leading part. I have talked it up with the boys and will do the square thing with you, and I am arterized to make you the following offer. We will come down after you with a good conveyance and will give you at the rate of Ten Dollars per day and board, and shall want you about one week. If you think it necessary you can have one or two of your best wimmen actars come up with you but we cant pay them over about Three Dollars a day and feed. You know how it is yourself, this kind of business is awful unsertain. You can have some fun out of it a hunting deer and foxes around Flamsburgs and Ed Wilksuns Please Let me know as soon as you can. Yours truly, James Sweet. P. Scrip.—ls you come eallating to hunt, get Frank Meyers’ hound. She is a good one. Yours truly, James Sweet. Direct to Prospect N. Y. care of George Wardin.

A colony of Texan emigrants is forifiing at Rutland, Vt., and an effort is making to have it the largest eolony ever sent out from New England,