Recipient's name is illegible. Sothern asks the recipient to give Miss Caroline Hill (of the Haymarket Company) a little "life" since she's a "good little soul"

Sothern speaks of his first performance as the the ghost in Hamlet at the Portsmouth.

Sothern sends his autograph.

Indicates that he has had to abandon his season after injuring his foot during the fencing scene of Hamlet. Expresses regret that a play that Rose had sent to h