Death and Wife's Suicide
Smith died at his home, 148 Midwood Street, Flatbush, New York on 8 April 1908.
His grief-stricken wife committed suicide on June 10 of the same year after having tried to do so on April 25. Lewis Allen Browne in his preface to Evolution : A Fantasy (1909) wrote:
- "Their lives and affections linked as they were, in his poetic fancy at least, since the beginning of time seemed to have created between them in reality a bond too close to survive a parting."
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