A message of comfort for grieving readers, this unusual story concerns a mother's supernatural contact with a son who perished on a Flanders battlefield during World War I.

Thy Son Liveth: Messages from a Soldier to His Mother by Grace Duffie Boylan, first published in 1919, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Grace Duffie Boylan was an American writer. 'Thy Son Liveth: Messages From A Soldier To His Mother' first appeared in 1918 anonymously. It is her account of what her son communicated to her about death using morse code and automatic writing after his death on the battlefield in France during World War I.