Jane Loring Gray

[5] During the rest of her long life, she lived at the Asa Gray House in the Harvard University Botanic Garden where all botanists were received with hospitality.

She also went with him to England in 1850, sailing in a packet boat, as the longer voyage was expected to benefit her health, and later they made several other trips to Europe, the last being in 1887 shortly before Prof. Gray's death, January 30, 1888.

For several years, she was absorbed in the arrangement of her husband's correspondence and edited the Letters of Asa Gray, which appeared in 1893 in two volumes.

The Gray Herbarium, which had become the property of Harvard University, had but a slight endowment, wholly inadequate to provide for its care and development.

It was Mrs. Gray, who, by her very substantial gift, awakened the new interest and initiated the movement which led in later years to a much more effective endowment of the herbarium which he founded.