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Mail call! 💜

Now that it’s in my hands, everything about this book has exceeded my expectations, and boy, is it dense!

For those who have preordered a copy, the publisher feels confident you’ll have the book by the end of summer!

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“My Dear Mrs. Greene” — His Letters to Sonia (Part II)

In Part II of “His Letters to Sonia”, we learn about the correspondence between Alfred Galpin and Sonia.

This month’s post is live!

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The Milliner and the Spy

Soundtrack: Oppenheimer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Ludwig Göransson. Box-folder 1:2-33; 2:1-11, Correspondence, 1933-1975, McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz, CA. Please do convey my love and aloha to Mother Davis—I always have and will have my warm regards for her. Kilsoo K. Haan to Nathaniel A. Davis, October 4, 1942, John Hay Library, Providence, R.I. One would think spy espionage…

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April’s post is live! I analyzed two copies of “The Psychic Phenomenon of Love”, and guess what I learned…

“What is this Phenomenon?”

In the wake of the latest eBay listing of an original Sonia manuscript, I analyze “The Psychic Phenomenon of Love”, and try to make sense of

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Two Hearts That Beat As One: An Autobiography

Businesswoman, milliner, writer, publisher, and patrone…

Sonia's autobiography, Two Hearts That Beat as One, is now in Goodreads! Be sure to add it to be TBR list! 💜

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Laya Machat-Smyth (Revisited)

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Remembering Sonia H. Davis: A Year in Review

I was always under the assumption this photo was taken around 1949, but upon closer inspection of the note alongside the picture, Sonia wrote: SHD 63 years old. This photo was actually taken in 1946. Source: John Hay Library, Providence, R.I. So here I am an old, decrepit woman, but I’m not waiting to die. That will come soon enough. Sonia to Sidney Moseson, his wife Florence, and daughter…

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