Documentation of this skywriting may be found in a letter from Art Smith, dated October 28, 1923, to Garnet Straits of Flat Rock, Michigan. He asks if she or any friends or family saw the message floating over Detroit that summer. Art had met Garnet by chance a year before when his de Havilland mail plane had to set down, making a forced landing in the Straits family pasture. Art stayed with the Straits during the time it took to make repairs on the aircraft, striking up an acquaintance with the eighteen-year-old Garnet that soon bloomed, in the days that followed, into mutual admiration and affection. The relationship matured and blossomed. It is said that the couple was even engaged to be wed but for the fatal crash of 1926. Buoyed by the frequent exchange of letters that Art Smith would sometimes “deliver,” launching a bundle of missives over the house in Flat Rock once he deviated from his route between Cleveland and Chicago, Garnet was to say years later of Art Smith, The Bird Boy of Fort Wayne, that it seemed as if “he dropped out of heaven.”