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284 Bay factor of Fort Colville, who was anxious to have them preserved in poetic form. The copy, which was about ready for the printer, was lost in the San Francisco fire. I have about twenty typed pages of the beginning.

Two years after the death of her husband, Mrs. Cooke died at Newberg on January 19, 1919, and was buried in the Chandler lot in Mountain View Cemetery at Forest Grove. She was 85. "Her poetic fancy remained with her until the last."

At the time Mrs. Cooke's volume came out, Abigail Scott Duniway was editing the New Northwest in Portland. Mrs. Duniway, who was befriending Minnie Myrtle Miller the same year, did not wait until she had read Tears and Victory carefully before giving it a favorable review and urging her subscribers to buy it:

This beautiful poetical gem has been laid on our table. We have not as yet had opportunity to give it that thorough perusal which we are satisfied that its ability and interest will amply repay; but the few shorter poems that we have read sparkle all through with originality, good taste, culti vation, and that noblest quality in woman, common sense. The book is elegantly printed and plainly but neatly bound in green and gold. We want Oregonians everywhere to buy it, and encourage home talent, home genius and home litera ture. Mrs. Cooke has reached her present high position through difficulties that would have appalled our most emi nent literary men. She has prepared at great expense this venture and sent it forth upon the sea of public popularity. Encourage her by purchasing her book, dear readers of the struggling New Northwest, and you will not regret having made the investment.

This boost, though not based on a "thorough peru-