[Author’s note: This series, on Mrs. Gray’s reading habits, began here.]

In May 1860, Regina Shober Gray [1] was visiting her family in Philadelphia.

245 South Eighteenth Street, Wednesday,..

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Regina Shober Gray [1] was an energetic and well-educated woman of her time. Her diary abounds with visits to the theater and to commercial art galleries (the precursors of museums), so I..Continue reading →

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

Mrs. Gray’s [1] summer was winding down, and while autumn impended she could..Continue reading →

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

By the third week in August 1880, Mrs. Gray [1] was comfortably settled in New Hampshire, where she had..Continue reading →

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

In 1880, Regina Shober Gray [1] became a grandmother (in January) and a widow (in February). The Gray..Continue reading →

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

With the end of the summer in sight, I thought I would finish up this review of the Gray diary between..Continue reading →

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

In August 1879, the Grays [1] were back in Massachusetts after their lengthy European sojourn, and Mrs...Continue reading →

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

For those of us wiling away the summer in offices in the United States, yearning for a glimpse of blue water, here is a living portrait of a Swiss summer..

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[ 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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The Society has, hanging on its walls, a reproduction of the famous thirteenth-century Hereford Mappa Mundi, the original of which is in the collection of Hereford Cathedral in the west of England. A mappa..

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