The obituary for Glassco's maternal grandfather, Edward Rawlings, published in The New York Times on 13 December 1911, the day after his death. The poet was not quite one year old when the old man died. At the age of twenty-five, Glassco inherited a small sliver of Rawlings' estate – more than enough to purchase Windermere, his 'White Mansion' in the Eastern Townships.
The sixteenth of thirty posts focussing on images not found in A Gentleman of Pleasure.
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