He moved to London, living in Gower Street, W.C.[2] sometime around 1915, to be with his son Van Dyke Fernald, who volunteered for the British army.

[1] He ventured into the realm of literature and penned several works.

His short stories were published in, inter alia and Harper's Magazine.

[3] In August 1918, her play The Cat and the Cherub, about a street in San Francisco Chinatown in 1905, was played at the Forest Theater in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, a production of the Carmel Arts and Crafts Club.

[4] Fernald died in Dover Harbour, South East England, believed drowned, after being knocked overboard by the boom of his boat, the auxiliary cutter Florence.