[ Frederick Edwin Smith / The Story of Newfoundland ]
Smith (1872 - 1930), the 1st Earl of Birkenhead, was a British lawyer, statesman, and writer — and one of Winston Churchill's closest personal friends.
This work was first published in 1901; a revised edition followed in 1920 (London: Marshall & Son).
This work has only one reference to Newfoundland dogs, and that is not to the dogs themselves but to an 1832 political cartoon that features dogs (including a Newf) ia parody of the Newfoundland parliament.