Rebecca Gratz to Maria Gist Gratz, July 26, 1840
Rebecca tells her sister-in-law Maria of the deaths of Becky Cohen, her cousin, and Joseph Marx, her niece's father-in-law, and comments on the meaning of suffering. She also remarks on the portrait of Eliza Blair, Maria's sister.
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| Title: | Rebecca Gratz to Maria Gist Gratz |
| Author: | Rebecca Gratz |
| Recipient: | Maria Gist Gratz |
| Origin: | Philadelphia, PA |
| Destination: | Lexington, KY |
| Date: | 1840-07-26 |
| Language: | English |
| Description: | Letter. 1 sheet. |
| Subject (Personal Name): | Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869 Gratz, Maria Gist, 1797-1841 Cohen, Rebecca, 1782-1840 Cohen, Rachel, 1783-1850 Vertner, Elizabeth Abercrombie, 1787-1871 Riggs, Mary Keene Boswell, 1829-? Abercrombie, James, 1758-1841 Meredith, William, 1772-1844 Ogden, Catharine Ann Powell Meredith, 1804-1849 Etting, Ellen Hays, 1800-1855 Joseph, Sara Gratz Moses, 1817-1891? Nathan, Rebecca Gratz Moses, 1810-1891 Etting, Reuben, 1762-1848 ?Green, Ann Eliza McCulloh, 1805-1874 Etting, Isabella, 1801-1855 Gratz, Jacob, 1790-1856 Blair, Eliza Violet Gist, 1794-1877 Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872 Blair, Francis Preston, 1791-1876 Lee, Elizabeth Blair, 1818-1906 Bledsoe, Sarah Howard Gist, 1785-1849 Bodley, Sarah Gist Bledsoe, 1808-1881 Gratz, Hyman Cecil, 1826-1866 Gratz, Cary Gist, 1829-1861 Mordecai, Sara Anne Hays, 1805-1894 Mordecai, Alfred, 1804-1887 Marx, Elizabeth Rosa Hays, 1803-1855 Marx, Joseph, 1772/3-1840 Etting, Harriet Marx, 1802-1880 Etting, Frances Marx, 1841-? Gratz, Benjamin, 1792-1884 Cohen, Miriam Gratz Moses, 1808-1891 Cohen, Solomon, 1802-1875 |
| Subject (Geographic): | Boston, MA Bordentown, NJ Canada Philadelphia, PA Washington, D.C. St. Petersburg, Russia Europe |
| Subject (Topical): | Health Death Emotion Travel Friendship Portraiture Romance Politics Children Military and warfare Business |
| Provenance: | American Jewish Historical Society |
| Publisher: | Gratz College |
| Citation for Scan: | Rebecca Gratz. ALS to Maria Gist Gratz, Philadelphia, PA, July 26, 1840. From the original at the American Jewish Historical Society, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 USA. |
| Citation for Transcript: | Rebecca Gratz to Maria Gist Gratz, July 26, 1840. RGC0401, Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection, Gratz College. Image from the original at the American Jewish Historical Society. https://rebeccagratz.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/rgc0401. |
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