FROM:
Rupert Hughes
A Hollywood Legend
By: James O. Kemm

Although Stately Timber had occupied most of his attention for a long period, he handled other writing assignments, including completion of a novel by Robert W. Chambers, whose writing he had championed in the dispute with Burton Rascoe. After Chambers's death, Hughes finished Smoke of Battle, the book Chambers was working on before he died. Hughes's name is not in the book, but an inscription in his handwriting, telling about his role in completing the novel, appear in a copy of the 1938 Chambers book in the Rupert Hughes collection at the University of Southern California.

Pomegranate Press - 1997 - page 260