 Smith's sister had given him a copy of Edward FitzGerald's "The Rubaiyat", containing works by Sufi writer Omar Khayyam.As such, Pound's daughter Mary de Rachewiltz suggests that the two may have discussed "Soufi and Mystics, wine, beauty, Pantheism, and painting".From 1902 to 1905 Smith studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, living on Diamond Street.