The final reel of chronological correspondence holds little new about Smith's life and work. His health declined so rapidly that his plan to find rooms at Ithaca was replaced by a decision to enter a sanitarium at Clifton Springs. Before this was effected he fell in his home and was confined to bed for the last months of his life. A paragraph from a letter sent to the New York Sun shortly before his fall shows his mind in fair working order, "Jefferson says that all men are created equal. Equal, surely, they are not created: but rather infinitely diverse, physically, mentally, and morally. Nor can you by any social machine roll humanity flat." An inquiry was sent Smith on December 10 by a man seeking "the facts of the Negro's ancient history . . . and facts connecting him with the civilization of his time." In May Smith and Burt Green Wilder exchanged notes about Wilder's paper on the Negro that he had presented at a conference on race. Letters from Schurman detail the use to which Cornell proposed to put the bequest Smith had arranged to make to the university. There is further mention of the Cobalt Lake case, the legal question that was the last public issue with which Smith was actively engaged. Oxford professor of law A. V. Dicey sent his memorandum on the Privy Council's judgment in the case on April 19th. Much of the correspondence during June was addressed to Smith's secretary and literary executor, Theodore Arnold Haultain. It contains a number of tributes to Smith from organizations and individuals.