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Title: Lola Montez in Grass Valley (PH 17-1)(Undated) Collection Type: Directories and Documents Collection Name: Pamphlets Catalog #: PH 17-1 Author: Doris Foley Published: Undated Subjects: Lola Montez, Lotta Crabtree # of Pages: 40 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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Original Held At: Searls Historical Library Location: 161 Nevada City Hwy, Nevada City, CA 95959

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This picture presented to the Bancroft Library sometime ago is inscribed with the title, but dates are not consistent. Hull left Grass Valley in the fall of 1853; Lola sailed for Australia in May of 1855. Hamilton Hall opened in May, 1855 but was consumed by fire the following September. The next Hamilton Hall on Church Street opened in 1858. (Ref. Thompson and West, 1880) The poster in the picture indicates that Camille played there in April; this clue led to the following from the Nevada Journal, April 13, 1858: ‘Tuesday evening Camille -himself, get excited, starts up, throws up his cup and cries, ‘Viva Preciosa!” Lola, comfortably ensconced in the Meredith ‘cottage, enjoyed the hospitality of her host and his friends. There were rides to take, sawmills and mines . to visit and numerous interesting people to meet. One of the most famous placer diggings, just north of town, was on Lola Montez Hill, named before the celebrity reached California. Nevada Journal, April 15, 1853: “Last Friday the bank caved in on a man from the height of 20 feet while drifting on Lola Montez Hill and did not seriously hurt him.” Grass Valley Telegraph, March 30, 1854: “Lola Montez Diggings — These diggings were considered rather doubtful for sometime as to paying well; those doubts are now entirely removed and shareholders are becoming sanquine of receiving handsome remunerations above their expenses and labor. We have not received authentic accounts, but are in. formed they have already received a very pretty . dividend above expenses.” I PATRICK HULL AND LOLA MONTEZ, GRASS VALLEY, CALIF., 1854 SESSes se soddsdddddssddd dss sees li lillies. was enacted. The first and second acts dragged considerably. The fault was not however in Mad’Ile Duret, who personated Camille excellently well particularly in the last acts . . . . the company appeared in Grass Valley.” This picture may possibly be the Graves Troupe and Mad’lle Duret arriving or leaving Grass Valley, with their costumes and stage accessories stored in the covered luggage compartment. Lola left California in 1856 and was in New York during the year of 1858. (Picture, Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California.) The Daily Herald, May 30, 1853: “.. There seems to be a considerable degree of good luck attached to all animate or inanimate things that bear the name of the celebrated artiste, Lola Montez; a 3 year old of Col. Peal won the Derby cup, Hon. M, Bott’s yacht Lola Montes won a yact race off Plymouth, and another Lola Montes was the winning nag at a late trotting match in Boston. Considering the many triumphs of which the original Lola can boast it is but natural to conclude that there’s something in a hame after all.” The above article was published after a gray mare named Lola Montes had won $6,200 for one individual on the Pioneer Race track near Mission Delores, shortly after Lola’s arrival in California. As a guest at the race, she ceremoniously presented the owner of the victorious mare with a horse blanket! Changing Lola’s name, however, was an unfortunate move for Patrick Purdy Hull. He suffered muchfrom the Montez temperament and might have suffered more had he not been absent much of the time. During the termination of his marriage to her and the short.