[ Author’s note: This series of excerpts from Regina Shober Gray’s diary began here.]

The 1878 Gray diary[1] is unusual in filling two full volumes instead of the more usual single one Mrs...

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[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from Regina Shober Gray’s diary began here.]

While their European sojourn during the summer of 1878 represented a break from routine, the Gray party ..Continue reading →

[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from Regina Shober Gray’s diary began here.]

While in Zurich, the Grays [1] met some friends from home and had some Philadelphia news:

Hotel Baus-au..

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Yesterday afternoon, sometime after 2 p.m., Vita Brevis marked a major milestone in the life of a blog with its one-millionth page view. Since it officially launched on 10 January 2014, with Robert Charles Anderson’s Deep Puritan Roots post, Vita Brevis has published..

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[Author's note: This series of excerpts from Regina Shober Gray’s diary began here.]

A great feature of Regina Shober Gray’s diary is the way she translates what she sees into words that..Continue reading →

[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from Regina Shober Gray’s diary began here.]

In 1878, the Grays went abroad for much of the year: it was such a momentous trip that Mrs. Gray [1] took..Continue reading →

[Author’s note: This series of excerpts from the Regina Shober Gray diary began here.]

The year 1876 marks the onset of Dr. Gray’s debilitating illness. He had the first of a series of..Continue reading →

I am fortunate in having photographs of many of my relatives, and more fortunate still in that I can identify so many of them. Often the work has been done for me, as to names; sometimes my work is cut out for me in terms of fitting them into the family tree. I have..

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By this period of the Gray diary, the month of June was generally a month in which Mrs. Gray visited her surviving siblings in Philadelphia and Pottsville, Pennsylvania. In 1873, the..Continue reading →

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In June 1871, Regina Shober Gray [1] was in Pennsylvania, and her omnibus diary entry for 9 June covers the first ten days of her..Continue reading →