[4] Immediately afterwards, when the Paullins toured to entertain mining settlements in the Stockton neighbourhood, it was reported that Louise was “the star character... and a better and more faithful delineator of childhood passion is seldom found”, while the “unaffected sweetness of her beautiful countenance” was “worth a dollar a minute to look at”.

[6] In October 1858 some of San Francisco’s most prominent citizens (including E. W. Burr, Thomas O. Larkin and Samuel Purdy) sponsored a benefit performance for “the talented” Louise in the role of “Little Eva” in a Tom show at Maguire’s Opera House, then the city’s principal theatre.

[7] She was described as having “often excited her audience to tears” in this role when, in the following year, she made national headlines by running away with a man in his twenties formerly employed by her father and dismissed for displaying inappropriate intimacy towards Louise.

[12] Over the next three years she toured California with various minstrel groups, including those managed by Charley Backus, Billy Burch, and Bray & Carl,[13] and at intervals reprised her character of “Little Eva” in which, in 1863, she was accompanied by her father in the part of “Shelby”.

[14] In 1862 she was travelling with the Backus troupe when the horses drawing the light stage wagon in which she was a passenger broke loose on a downhill run and, in attempting to leap from the vehicle, Louise caught her leg in a wheel and was dragged along for some distance.

[17] In September the same year she made her first Broadway performance as “Miss Isabella” in William A. Mestayer’s three-act musical play The Tourists in a Pullman Palace Car at New York’s Fifth Avenue Theatre.

[21] Returning to California in 1885, she joined William T. Carleton’s Opera Company and took the title role in Genée’s Nanon in which she gave, said the Daily Alta’s critic, “a delightful performance… her singing having very much improved since we used to hear her in the Emelie Melville troupe and she is more beautiful than ever”.

Critic Alan Dale commented that "Miss Paullin can certainly make herself heard, and that is about all that can be favorably said about her performance, which was characterized by an intense lack of refinement, and a pretty well defined mispronunciation of the English language.