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 of literary activity, Mrs. Victor was compelled to earn her living at selling face cream and other toilet articles from door to door.

This was only a dark interlude. Literature had never given her much, but she had served it too long and too well not to be able still to exact a living from it as an old woman from 64 to 76. The next year after her Oregon return Atlantis Arisen was published, not by the Bancroft firm she had so recently quitted and for which she had done so much, but by Lippincott of Philadelphia. Then she secured from the Oregon legislature the $1500 assignment to write the history of the Indian wars. She contributed to the magazines and newspapers, and worked on the Walworth genealogy until her patron died. She had to face her necessity alone and she won. She had no children; her sister, Mrs. S. C. Adams of Salem, had died; the only relative she had left on the Pacific Coast was a cousin in Walla Walla. "She continued her literary labors to the last. . . . The income from her work and a small pension maintained her in modest comfort."

During the last four years of her life she lived in Portland at the boarding house of Mrs. Emma M. Gilmore, for one year at 624 Salmon Street, and for three years at 501 Yamhill Street, where she died on November 14, 1902, at the age of 76. An editorial in the Oregonian two days later said of her:

Frances Fuller Victor, whose death occurred in this city Friday afternoon, was a notable figure in the literary life of Oregon and the Northwest. She was not one of the earliest pioneers of the state, but she was a pioneer in its literature and one of the earliest compilers of its history. Her style was graceful rather than forceful, and though, from the dif-