at the Royal Strand Theatre she played Prince Ahmed in Henry James Byron's romance, The Pilgrim of Love. New York Lee remained at the Strand Theatre through the season of 1870–71 and afterwards accepted an offer from E. A. Sothern to play Mary Meredith that fall at New York's Niblo's Garden in a revival of Our American Cousin. After Our American Cousin closed, Lee (As Jenny Lee) continued to play at Niblo's in such productions as the fairy operetta, Queen Naiad, by Emile Pacardo and Charles. F. Gordon; and as Rosey Budd in Black Friday, Henry Harwood Leech's drama based on the murder of financier James Fisk, Jr.<ref>Amusements, Black Friday. The New York Times, 23 April 1872, p. 5</ref> Black Friday closed on 5 May 1872, just two days before a devastating fire destroyed Niblo's Garden.The Biograph and Review, July–December 1880, pp. 483–486. Retrieved 25 January 2014 The following month Lee joined the Vokes family at the Boston Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts, as Betsey Baker in a farce-comedy entitled, The Wrong Man in the Right Place.Boston Theatre (advertisement). Boston Daily Advertiser, (Boston, Massachusetts), 2 July 1872, Issue 2, p. 1, col. A Lee next appeared with the Vokes family in New York at the Union Square Theatre in the William Brough comedy, Kind to a Fault. and the same venue in September 1872 she joined Agnes Ethel's company, which included J. P. Burnett, in Agnes, a play written specifically for Agnes Ethel by Victorien Sardou. After a serious illness, Lee returned to the Union Square Theatre on 31 December 1872 to play a principle part in J. P. Woolner's one-act playlette, Orange Blossoms. She closed out 1872–73 season there playing Blanche in a comedy by M. Louis Leyroy entitled Cousin Jack. On 12 June 1873, the Union Square Theatre held a benefit performance on Lee's behalf with a production of Thomas William Robertson's Caste, with the British-born actor James Henry Stoddart in the role of Eccles. Afterwards Lee returned to England for a brief visit. San Francisco In August 1873, Lee and J. P. Burnett returned to New York aboard the Steamship Idaho and subsequently travelled by rail to San Francisco, where they joined up with Susan Galton to form the Susan Galton and Jennie Lee Opera Bouffe, Burlesque and Comedy Troupe. Their first engagements there came in early September to mid-October at the New Alhambra Theatre in productions of the