THE
GRANDMOTHERS
_A Family Portrait_
BY
GLENWAY WESCOTT
_You do not see me as I once was.
Children, get out the photographs._
--My Grandmother
_Publishers_
Harper & Brothers
NEW YORK _and_ LONDON
1927
THE GRANDMOTHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1927, BY
HARPER & BROTHERS
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
_FIRST EDITION_
To
My Mother
_CONTENTS_
I. Introduction: Alwyn Tower as a Small Boy. The House. His
Grandmother Tower’s Keepsakes 1
II. Alwyn’s Knowledge of America and His Family 17
III. His Grandfather Tower’s Character. A Fragment of
Autobiography. The Rest of His Life 34
IV. His Grandmother Tower’s Girlhood. Her Soldier Sweetheart.
Her Marriage 56