[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
[Author's note: This blog post originally appeared in Vita Brevis on 19 October 2015.]
Riffing on something Chris Child wrote about collecting photos of family members in July, I thought I might do something similar with information about family burial plots. Such an..
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[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
In her diary, Regina Shober Gray[1] notes occasional instances where (usually at the behest of a..
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[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]
61 Bowdoin Street, Boston, Friday, 5 February..
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Thanks to a timely message alerting me to a collection of letters for sale at eBay, I recently acquired one side of the genealogical correspondence between Regina Shober Gray[1] and the Rev. Richard Manning Chipman, author of The Chipman Lineage (1872). Mrs. Gray, so..
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[Editor's note: This blog post originally appeared in Vita Brevis on 26 December 2015.]
In 1860, when Regina Shober Gray began keeping her diary, gift-giving was..
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