Young Eliot (104 page)

2. Tom's father, Henry Ware Eliot, sitting on the porch of the family's summer home at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

3. Tom's mother, Charlotte Champe Eliot.

4. Tom, sitting on the front gate of 2635 Locust Street, St Louis, with his mother and, from left, his cousin Henrietta, his sister Marian (obscured, with her hand to her head), and his sister Margaret on the morning after the 1896 cyclone.

5. 2635 Locust Street was screened by dense foliage in a city often loud with the sound of cicadas.

6. The hallway of 2635 Locust Street, with the grandfather clock (at left) that Tom's father brought from Massachusetts as a present for his wife.

7. Tom, aged about four, posing for a formal photograph.

8. Tom, aged about six, with his nursemaid, Annie Dunne, in St Louis.

9. Tom, aged about seven, in St Louis.

10. Tom, aged about ten, standing in the yard of Smith Academy, St Louis.

11. The Downs, the Eliots' extensive summer house at Eastern Point, Gloucester, Massachusetts, when recently built in the 1890s.

12. The view to the sea from the porch at the Eliots' Gloucester house.

13. Tom in a sailor suit, sitting astride the balustrade of the porch at the Gloucester house, contemplating a model boat.

14. Tom as a boy at Gloucester, learning to sail.