Many letters were inspired by Smith's published articles, Commonwealth or Empire, Genesis and the Outlook of Religion, and War as Moral Medicine. From Washington Benjamin wrote his views of the Catholic Church in America, of certain bishops and Jesuit colleges. The editor of the Winnipeg Tribune wrote that his election to Parliament was being contested. The Atlantic and Collier's sought articles about Queen Victoria shortly after her death. Collier's offered to give Smith's piece first place…