P.S. - John Cowley has gathered all the versions of Ella Speed, about a dozen, that he could find. He and I are collaborating on writing this material up. We have a short article that has appeared, or is about to appear, in Sing Out! We hope shortly to write something more scholarly for a blues or folklore magazine or journal.

The front facade of Miss Pauline's house, where Ella was shot and killed, still stands on Iberville Street, the first street parallel to Canal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans. The numbering system was changed in the 1890s and shortly thereafter the name of the street was changed from Customhouse to Iberville. Ella lived at Miss Pauline's place at 137 Customhouse. This became 829 Iberville. In the 1960s, the front facades of three townhouses that had been built together in 1850 were incorporated into the D. H. Holmes Department Store parking garage. All of the property of the garage seems to be subsumed now under the number 817 Iberville. You will recognize these three townhouses by the elaborate ironwork on their balconies. Ella lived in the one nearer Bourbon Street.

John Garst