Of her four surviving siblings, RHD
was closest to her younger brother, Hugh Wilson
, who later became professor of physics and mathematics at Pennsylvania's Lehigh University
.
Lasseter, Janice Milner, and Sharon M. Harris, editors. “Introduction”. Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography, Vanderbilt University Press, 2001, pp. 1-19.
The long title-poem is unfinished, and a promised preface by CS
was never found, though she supplied annotations with information about her topic. Relatives abandoned the idea of including a short account of Smith's life...