Rebecca Gratz to Maria Fenno Hoffman, [March] [xx], [1820?]

Rebecca tells her friend Maria her thoughts about Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, her impressions of a sermon by a Unitarian preacher, and shares family news, including Issac Hays's graduation from medical school.

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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:[1820?]-[03]-[xx]
Language:English
Description:Letter. 1 Sheet.
Subject
(Personal Name):		Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869
Hoffman, Maria Fenno, 1781-1823
Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, 1766-1837
Nicholas, Charles Jenkins, 1782-1835
Nicholas, Alice Anna Hoffman, 1790-1840
Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
Verplanck, Gulian C. (Gulian Crommelin), 1786-1870
Jarvis, Samuel Farmar, 1786-1851
Everett, Edward, 1794-1865
Meredith, Gertrude Gouverneur Ogden, 1777-1828
%Dr. Adams
Brown, Anne Eliza Rodman, 1801-1881
Rodman, Harriet Fenno, 1782-1808
Rodman, John, 1775-1847
Cohen, Miriam Gratz Moses, 1808-1891
Hoffman, Julia, 1810-1861
Nathan, Rebecca Gratz Moses, 1810-1891
Moses, Rachel Gratz, 1782-1823
Joseph, Sara Gratz Moses, 1817-?
Hays, Isaac, 1796-1879
Subject
(Geographic):		Washington, D.C.
Philadelphia, PA
Richmond, VA
New York, NY
Europe
Boston, MA
Subject
(Topical):		Travel
Business
Literature
Ivanhoe
Native Americans
Religion
Christianity
Climate
Newspapers and periodicals
Literary journal
North American Review
Health
Children
Education
School and university
Music
Social scene
Antisemitism
Provenance:American Jewish Historical Society
Publisher:Gratz College
Citation
for Scan:		Rebecca Gratz. ALS to Maria Fenno Hoffman, Philadelphia, PA, [March] [xx], [1820?]. 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, [March] [xx], [1820?]. RGC0652, Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection, Gratz College. Image from the original at the American Jewish Historical Society. https://rebeccagratz.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/rgc0652.
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