Anglo-American unity could prevent another world war. Final years and death Grierson and Tonner returned to Paris in 1889, where they lived until 1896. After Paris, Grierson and Tonner settled in London until 1913, when they decided to return to the United States. In 1920, they settled in Los Angeles, which remained home for the rest of their lives. After their years of traveling the world together, Grierson lost his popularity and Tonner, who taught French and worked in a tailoring shop, supported him. Grierson died in Los Angeles on May 29, 1927, immediately after playing the last chord of a piano performance entertaining friends who had invited him to dinner; he was still upright with his hands on the keys and it was Tonner who first noticed that something was wrong. In newspaper announcements at the time of his death, it was noted that the once-successful Grierson had been living in poverty. Grierson's body was cremated. Partial bibliography Essays and Pen-Pictures (Pensées et Essais) (T Symonds (Paris) 1889) Modern Mysticism and Other Essays (London: G. Allen, 1899) The Celtic Temperament (George Allen 1901) The Valley of Shadows (Constable; Houghton Mifflin 1909) The Humour of the Underman (Stephen Swift 1911) Parisian Portraits (Stephen Swift 1911) La Vie et les hommes (Stephen Swift 1911) The Invincible Alliance and Other Essays (1913) Abraham Lincoln, the Practical Mystic (John Lane 1918) Illusions and Realities of the War (John Lane 1918) Psycho-Phone Messages (B. F. Austin 1921) References External links The Villa Montezuma at Haunted Houses.com Francis Grierson: Beyond the Valley of Shadows to the halls of the Villa Montezuma 1848 births 1927 deaths 19th-century American pianists 19th-century American male musicians American male pianists People from Birkenhead