duced, and so very weak I have felt it a sacred duty to be constantly with him, administering what little consolation to him I can—it has been no small gratification to myself to think I may have been of some use to him in what I greatly fear may be among his last days—his family have frequently said too that he never appears so cheerful as when I am with him. While sitting at his bedside we have often conversed of You and when I left him only a few hours since I told him it was for the purpose of writing to You, as soon as your name was mentioned, the poor sufferer struggled hard to get up— "Yes do," said he, "and tell him oh tell him that I shall never again see him in this world."
Two days later, on December 23, 1861, Tod continued his letter:
I have just returned from the house of mourning where lays the body of our departed friend Work."32
John Work was buried in the churchyard of Christ Church Cathedral, and his interesting tomb is one of the few that were preserved when the historic site was beautified as a rest park for Victoria residents and visitors.
Josette, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, survived until 1896, residing at "Hillside" in Victorian formality. "An interesting though sad feature of the Legislature on January 31,1 896, was the passage of a resolution of sympathy by the House to the members of the family of the late Mrs. Work."33
NOTES
1. Edwin Ernest Rich and W. Kaye Lamb, eds., The Letters of John McLoughlin from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and Committee, First Series, 1825-38, Hudson's Bay Record Society, Publications of the Champlain Society, Hudson's Bay Company Series, IV (Toronto and London, 1941), 356.
2. Harry Dee, "John Work, A Chronicle of His Life and a Guide to His Journals" (thesis submitted for degree of M.A., University of British Columbia, 1943).
3. Rich and Lamb, loc. cit.
4. William Downie, Hunting for Gold, Reminiscences . . . of the Pacific Coast from Alaska to Panama (San Francisco, 1893), p. 223.
5. See sources cited in Alice Bay Maloney, "Early Trails of Northern California" (a paper read at a history seminar at the University of California, April 18, 1941, library of Dr. Herbert Eugene Bolton, Berkeley).
6. Maurice S. Sullivan, ed.. The Travels of Jedediah Smith (Santa Ana, Calif.: Fine Arts Press, 1934), p. 108.
7. Ibid., p. 149.
8. Alice Bay Maloney, "Peter Skene Ogden's Trapping Expedition to the Gulf of California, 1829-30,"California Historical Society Quarterly, XIX (December 1940), 308.
9. Sullivan, op. cit., p. 112.
10. Obituary published in newspaper at the time of John Work's death, in the form of a copy furnished by Dr. Joseph Huggins (no place, no date, but presumably from a Victoria publication).
11. The Edward Huggins Papers in the Soliday Collection, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, include original letters of both uncle and nephew written during the decade 1850-60.
12. Rich and Lamb, loc. cit.
13. See Note 10.
14. Dr. Huggins notes three versions of this name: Legace, Legase, and Legasse. Joseph Huggins to Alice Bay Maloney, Downington, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1941.
15. Mark Sweeten Wade, The Thompson Country (Kamloops, 1907), p. 13.
16. Hubert Howe Bancroft, Literary Industries (San Francisco, 1890), p. 354.
