Rebecca Gratz to Maria Fenno Hoffman, November 28, 1808

Rebecca tells her friend Maria of her grief over the death of her young relative Miriam Etting Myers, and continues to express her concern about Maria's stepdaughter's relations with an actor.

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Title:Rebecca Gratz to Maria Fenno Hoffman
Author:Rebecca Gratz
Recipient:Maria Fenno Hoffman
Origin:[Philadelphia, PA]
Destination:New York, NY
Date:1808-11-28
Language:English
Description:Letter. 1 sheet.
Subject
(Personal Name):		Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869
Hoffman, Maria Fenno, 1781-1823
Myers, Miriam Etting, 1787-1808
Etting, Reyna (Rachel) Simon, 1764-1790
Etting, Solomon, 1764-1847
Etting, Rachel Gratz, 1764-1831
Myers, Jacob, ?-1826
Myers, Solomon Etting, 1807-1844
Myers, Horatio Gratz, 1808-1834
Meredith, Gertrude Gouverneur Ogden, 1777-1828
Rodman, Harriet Fenno, 1782-1808
Sully, Thomas, 1783-1872
Malbone, Edward Greene, 1777-1807
Ewing, Margaret (Peggy), 1779-1809
Ewing, James Sargeant, 1770-1825
Etting, Henry, 1799-1876
Gratz, Hyman, 1776-1857
%Mr. Shaw
Nicholas, Charles Jenkins, 1782-1835
Nicholas, Alice Anna Hoffman, 1790-1840
Cooper, Thomas Abthorpe, 1776-1849
Irving, Washington, 1783-1859
Hoffman, Sarah Matilda, 1791-1809
Verplanck, Mary Elizabeth Fenno, 1787-1817
Gratz, Michael, 1740-1811
Subject
(Geographic):		Georgetown, SC
New York, NY
Delaware River
Subject
(Topical):		Death
Travel
Transportation
Health
Courtship
Portraiture
Disease
Medical treatment
Social conventions
Provenance:American Jewish Historical Society
Publisher:Gratz College
Citation
for Scan:		Rebecca Gratz. ALS to Maria Fenno Hoffman, [Philadelphia, PA], November 28, 1808. 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 Fenno Hoffman, November 28, 1808. RGC0586, Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection, Gratz College. Image from the original at the American Jewish Historical Society. https://rebeccagratz.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/rgc0586.
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