Though he was growing frail, Smith maintained his busy writing schedule. He occasionally spoke in public, delivering a brief address in October at the laying of the cornerstone of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell. The titles of pamphlets prepared in this period are The Spirit of Religious Inquiry, My Memory of Gladstone and Early Days at Cornell. The American presidential election and Canadian-American reciprocity received passing attention. Smith's "English Poetry and English History" in the October American Historical Review drew comment from Charles Francis Adams and Daniel H. Chamberlain, the former Governor of South Carolina, and was scheduled to be reprinted in the Literary Digest. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Randall Davidson), James Bryce, and Robert Morley visited Toronto in the fall of 1904, and a number of Smith's Oxford friends signed a memorial that was forwarded to him in November. On July 8th C. S. Firth recalled that Smith's history lectures at Oxford had been the last to attract a university-wide audience. Firth and others commented on the new Rhodes Scholars. Toronto topics on the reel include the building of a Labor Temple, in which laborers might hold meetings and spend their leisure hours, and the projected formation of a stock company to build and maintain "Artisans Dwellings" under the auspices of the Associated Charities.