[3] With Booth and others, she toured Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C.. President Abraham Lincoln attended her performances and she was invited to the White House.

[10][Note 1] Eytinge returned to New York to resume her career with the Union Square Theatre Company.

It was at this time that she played one of her most famous roles, Shakespeare's "Cleopatra" for which she drew on her Egyptian experiences.

Her literary works include the novel It Happened This Way (with S. Ada Fisher), the play Golden Chains, and adaptations of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Browning's Colombe's Birthday.

Eytinge died of a stroke on December 20, 1911, at the Brunswick Home of Amityville, New York, where she was supported by the Actors Fund of America.