[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 →

When you stop to think about it, boxes make for very special enclosures. I’m sitting here, typing this blog and thinking of the many ways boxes are utilized on a daily basis. For example, there are mail boxes, tool boxes, boxes made for..

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[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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[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 →

Among the many treasures in the Society’s collection is an extraordinarily well-preserved circa 1847 oil painting by Philip Harry of a grand Boston home that no..

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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 →

[Author's note: This series began here and continues here.]

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 →

Continuing my occasional series on the month of May in Regina Shober Gray’s diary, [1] I thought it might be interesting to look at the first five years after the end of the Civil War. One..Continue reading →