My thoughts are, with no disrespect to Mr. Waite,
that scholarship has glossed over his final chapter.
Decker and Dummett offer nothing, nor it seems
have any other notable authorities, like S. Kaplan.
Waite died in 1942 and was accorded a brief, three-paragraph obituary in The Freemasons' Chronicle (vol. 135, p. 178, 6 June 1942) in which he was characterized as a poet and writer on Freemasonry. There was no attempt to appraise his work or to state his primary thesis. He was buried in the churchyard at Bishopsbourne in Kent where he spent most of his later years, and his grave is now obscured by a thick growth of deadly nightshade — an appropriate parallel to the blight that has fallen on his reputation.