Edwin Smith was a Sydney doctor who staged some unpublished plays and had numerous articles published in the Medical Journal of Australia between 1918 and 1920. His other publications include Some Modern Developments in Opthalmology and the Relationship of the Specialty to General Medicine (1914), Principles of Treatment in Corneal Ulceration (1929) and Orbital Cellulitis in Children (1930), all written as E. Temple Smith. He also contributed text to the art book The Sculpture of Raynor Hoff (1934) as E. C. Temple Smith.