APPENDICES 
APPENDIX A. 
(Extract from an editorial in one of the Montreal newspapers.) 
“Tt is with sincere regret that we announce this morning the death of 
Mr. Charles Heavysege, which took place on the evening of Friday last. The 
sad news was a considerable shock to his friends, for, although for some years 
past the deceased poet had been suffering from extreme feebleness, his fre- 
quent appearance in his well-known resort tended to keep aloof the thought 
that death was so near, and even gave some hope that he might yet be 
spared for a long time. He had been accustomed to spend a portion of every 
day in Phillips’ Square, and there he was seen quite recently by persons con- 
nected with this journal. In conversation with the writer about a fortnight 
ago he referred sorrowfully to the change that had come upon his once seem- 
ingly almost indefatigable energies of mind and body, and spoke of death as 
the only possible termination of this terrible malady, with gentle resignation. 
He attributed, rightly no doubt, his premature loss of strength to over-work, 
for it had never been his wont to spare himself. Both before and after his 
connection with journalism, he was a severe student and a constant and pro- 
found thinker. In the performance of his allotted duties no man could be 
more conscientious. His wish to do thoroughly, according to his ability, 
whatever he undertook, amounted to a passion, and had even something 
chivalrous in it. In some departments of newspaper work he could have had 
few superiors—especially in precis-writing and condensed-reporting. Some 
of his productions of this kind might serve as models. He also, although he 
never acquired, never, perhaps, having aimed at, remarkable rapidity in the 
use of the pen, excelled as a writer of articles on subjects of current interest, 
confining his attention, for the most part, to those which embraced the pro- 
gress and improvement of the city. Mr. Heavysege had been a journalist for 
fully sixteen years, his first engagement having been on the staff of the 
Transcript, and his second, which lasted till failing health unfitted him for 
active labor, on that of the Daily Witness.” 
APPENDIX B. 
[The following letter from Mrs. Middlemiss (a daughiter of Heavysege’s) 
was received while this paper was going through the press.] 
“As a boy my father was thoughtful and studious. I have heard him say 
that his first pennies given to him by his little mother, went to purchase a 
small volume of his beloved Shakespeare. His parents did not sympathize 
With him in his early literary work, rather frowning upon it than otherwise. 
“One of my father’s characteristics was his very sensitive conscience. If 
a doubt existed in his mind as to what was his or another’s, the other got the 
benefit of the doubt always. As an instance of this I remember his coming 
Sec. II., 1901. 4. 
