His official correspondence as president of Smith College is stored separately in the College Archives' holdings of records of the Office of the President.

Selected Bibliography:

• The Origins and Sources of the Court of Love (1899)
• The Essentials of Poetry (1912)
• The Facts about Shakespeare (1913)
• Robert Burns: How to Know Him (1917)

Editorial Projects:

• Harvard Classics "Five Foot Shelf" (1909-1910)
• Cambridge Shakespeare (1906, revised 1942)
• Webster's New International Dictionary, 2nd Ed. (1934)

For a more complete biographical sketch see the Dictionary of American Biography Supplement 1946-1950.