Los Angeles, October 14, 1897.
Well, beginning on the left is the little house Mr. B and Madame went to stay, but when she was getting better last time, they said it was dryer than her own room—next that is an enclosed yard with a store room at the back and over it a room where her theatrical dresses are kept, the little house right off that is the house girls' rooms, in front of the last is a bed of carnations and where the two girls are is the open air dining room, next that is the indoor dining room, kitchen behind, then Nashtia's room with a rustic well in front, part of dining room behind and part of kitchen and big pantry behind that—then an entrance and little hall behind which is my room as they call it and bathroom beyond—then Mr. Bozentas' study, hall behind and then the room with the church windows (the odd window is a seat of Madames) this a very large room and goes the whole depth of the house and up to the rafters with a big granite fireplace and no end of pretty things in it. I suppose you would call it a drawing room—then there is a spare bedroom, hall and another bedroom at the back, then an entrance with a bathroom beyond the hall—then Mr. B's room with Madame's at the back and these open onto a wide deep porch with Japanese screens and trellis and creepers which is the end—the kitchen garden is beyond the shrubbery to the left and that lawn runs to the right ever such a way to the farmyard entrance—at the back is a deep hill 50 yards high or more covered with live oak, geraniums, wild grasses and so on—on top there is an orange and olive orchard—in front excepting drives it is all garden and shrubbery to a creek with a swing gate, I dare say there are 8 or 10 acres, all this and a small valley are shut in by high mountains and you exist in a sort of green sea. That is Madame by her porch, the girls on the right were Misses Langenberger, Yorke and Easton. I am doing roses on the well, Annie and Maggie are in the open dining room, Nashtia is by the little house, Mr. B is talking to Johnny, left front, Sam is watering with his small and faithful Bobilo dog near him, the other dog is a big hound named Rock. If you keep this till you get the sketch perhaps you can make it out.
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1900—Beginning of the D——.