By the early 1930s she had turned to translating from the Spanish, including poets of Mexico, Haiti, and South America. She received wide recognition for her translations. The Latin American Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires awarded her the gold insignia for her Poets of Haiti (1935). Also, her translation of The Spirit of the Andes (1935), by the Peruvian poet Jose Santos Chocano, was dedicated by special permission to Alfonso XIII of Spain. By 1940 Underwood appears to have given up her literary endeavours. She entered a sanatorium in 1953 suffering from dementia. She died on June 14, 1961. Underwood's papers are collected at the Library of Kansas State University. References Further reading Carol Ward Craine, Mrs Underwood: Linguist, Littérateuse, 1965 Introduction by S.T. Joshi to Dear Dead Women, Tartarus Press, 2010 External links (multiple name versions) 1873 births 1961 deaths 20th-century American poets Persian–English translators Spanish–English translators Chinese–English translators Russian–English translators Japanese–English translators University of Michigan alumni American women poets 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American translators