Rebecca Gratz to Maria Gist Gratz, April ?], [1840

Rebecca tells her sister-in-law Maria the latest news of family and friends, ponders King Solomon's character, and comments on a letter she received from the writer Maria Edgeworth.

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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:[1840-04-?]
Language:English
Description:Letter. 1 sheet.
Subject
(Personal Name):		Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869
Gratz, Maria Gist, 1797-1841
Moses, Mary Porter Ashe, 1812-1853
Moses, Simon Gratz, 1813-1897
Grigg, John, 1792-1864
Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mandé, 1787-1851
Hays, Isaac, 1796-1879
Gratz, Benjamin, 1792-1884
Gratz, Cary Gist, 1829-1861
Gratz, Hyman Cecil, 1826-1866
Gratz, Michael Bernard, 1822-1889
Gratz, Henry Howard, 1824-1913
Mordecai, Alfred, 1804-1887
Mordecai, Sara Anne Hays, 1805-1894
Hays, Richea Gratz, 1774-1858
Etting, Ellen Hays, 1800-1855
Murat, Caroline Georgina Fraser, 1810-1879
Riggs, Mary Keene Boswell, 1829-?
Crittenden, Maria Knox Innes Todd, 1796-1851
Hoffman, Julia, 1810-1861
%Julia's brother
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 1744-1817
Gratz, Joseph, 1785-1858
Gratz, Jacob, 1790-1856
Nathan, Rebecca Gratz Moses, 1810-1891
Joseph, Sara Gratz Moses, 1817-1891?
Moses, Gratz Ashe, 1839-1901
Hays, Joseph Gratz, 1835-1890
Hays, William Dewees, 1836-1866
Lee, Elizabeth Blair, 1818-1906
Blair, Frank P., Jr. (Francis Preston), 1821-1875
Blair, Eliza Violet Gist, 1794-1877
Meredith Family
Ogden, Sarah Ogden Meredith, 1803-1878
Subject
(Geographic):		Europe
Prussia
Russia
Sweden
France
England
Washington, D.C.
Saratoga, NY
Harrisburg, PA
Subject
(Topical):		Health
Fashion
Clothing and dress
Literature
Education
Institution
University and school
Lexington Orphan Asylum
Hebrew Sunday School Society of Philadelphia
Religion
Faith
Daguerreotype
Children
Travel
Military and warfare
Holiday
Religious holiday
Passover
Housing
Nature
Science
Provenance:American Jewish Historical Society
Publisher:Gratz College
Citation
for Scan:		Rebecca Gratz. ALS to Maria Gist Gratz, Philadelphia, PA, April ?], [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, April ?], [1840. RGC0431, Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection, Gratz College. Image from the original at the American Jewish Historical Society. https://rebeccagratz.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/rgc0431.
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