As for Fletcher himself, his enthusiasm for Chinese art and poetry grew with the years. Later, while a consul at Hoihow (Hai-k'ou, a major seaport on Hainan Island), he published in Shanghai two volumes of translations: Gems of Chinese Verse (1918) and More Gems of Chinese Poetry (1919).

Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why

Little thou reck'st of this sad store! Would thou might never reck them more!

Some kinds of literary pursuits […] have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule.