 He carried on a correspondence with several prominent intellectuals, including Iorga, Vasile Bogrea, Garabet Ibrăileanu, Gheorghe I. Brătianu, Nicolae Bagdasar, and his close friend Cezar Papacostea.He became gravely ill in 1930 and died four years later.He was buried in Bucharest's Sfânta Vineri Cemetery by his brother Dimitrie Motăș, aided by Papacostea and Bagdasar.