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With the new year comes new possibilities and hopes. There was little Sonia scholarship in 2025—and that’s okay. This year will be different. Already, 2026 has started on the right foot with new findings. Recently, thanks to a bookseller friend, I was informed about an all new, never before seen, article by Sonia published in The American Amateur in July 1921. This is the earliest documented piece of writing we now have from Sonia. The Fossils were very kind to accept the article and have reprinted it in the January 2026 issue of The Fossil. You may read it here when the volume is published: The Fossil

I was recently approached by an Italian content creator who needed help gathering the necessary information to present Sonia’s life before and after her marriage to Lovecraft. This opportunity truly inspired me to revisit the timeline printed in Two Hearts That Beat as One. Since starting its revision, I’ve decided to publish the timeline in this website once it’s completed. Unlike the printed version, the new timeline will provide sources from Two Hearts, Lovecraft’s letters, archival documents, and articles published in this site to further corroborate the dates.

The timeline venture has had a domino effect on how and what I present as a scholar—specifically within this website. Over the past several years, The Papers of Sonia H. Davis has grown beyond what I first imagined. What began as an effort to clarify and document Sonia’s life has become a sustained research practice—one that involves continual reading, revising, questioning, and returning to the archive.

Going forward, I will begin publishing a small number of extended interpretive essays that will reflect this deeper stage of the work. These essays will allow me to think more openly and at greater length about Sonia’s life, her historical context, and the ways she has been represented over time. The core of this site—timeline, factual corrections, and essential biographical research—will remain freely available. The supporter-only essays are not about restricting information, but about making space for the labor of interpretation that accompanies serious scholarship.

Those who choose to support this work are helping me continue the research carefully, independently, and at a sustainable pace. I’m deeply grateful to everyone who reads, shares, and engages with this project, in whatever way feels right to them. I’m extremely excited for this new chapter of the website, and will share more details about it once the launch date gets closer.

Lastly, there will be new monthly posts. For February, I will share all of the newspaper mentions of Sonia, including her editorials. In March, I will focus on Sonia’s uncles, Harris and Joseph Haft—the brothers of Racille Haft. Then, for April, I will take a look into Sonia’s hike in the Blue Pencil Club to Linoleumville.

While change is coming through this channel of Sonia scholarship, my mission remains the same: easily accessible information on the life of Sonia H. Davis. The Papers of Sonia H. Davis will remain a free platform to learn about Sonia, while evolving into a centralized repository of scholarly publications on her life and work, making them more easily available to both casual readers and scholars.