Rebecca Gratz and Rebecca Hamilton O’Beirne to Harriet Fenno Rodman, September 24, 1800

Rebecca, with a note from Becky Hamilton [O'Beirne], writes to her friend Harriet about a city-wide sickness in Baltimore, her sister's distressed mental health following the death of her daughter, and musings prompted by the moral dilemmas in the novel, St. Leon: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century (1799).

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Title:Rebecca Gratz and Rebecca Hamilton O’Beirne to Harriet Fenno Rodman
Author:Rebecca Gratz and Rebecca Hamilton O'Beirne
Recipient:Harriet Fenno Rodman
Origin:Philadelphia, PA
Destination:New York, NY
Date:1800-09-24
Language:English
Description:Letter. 1 page.
Subject
(Personal Name):		Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869
Rodman, Harriet Fenno, 1782-1808
O'Beirne, Rebecca Hamilton, 1783-1842
Moses, Rachel Gratz, 1782-1823
Gratz, Sarah (“Sally”), 1779-1817
Etting, Frances Gratz, 1771-1852
Etting, Isabella, 1796-1800
%Miss Kennedy
Godwin, William, 1756-1836
%R. H.
Ewing, Samuel, 1776-1825
Gratz, Miriam Simon, 1749-1808
Lyle, James, 1765-1826
Hoffman, Maria Fenno, 1781-1823
Hays, Richea Gratz, 1774-1858
%Sally
%Mrs. Knowles
Gratz, Hyman Cecil, 1826-1866
Fenno, Charles J., 1784-1807
Verplanck, Mary Elizabeth Fenno, 1787-1817
Fenno, Caroline, 1791-1805
Fenno, George, 1786-1829
*Caty
%Mr. Markoe
%Curtis
Caldwell, James R., 1778-1804 ?
Subject
(Geographic):		Baltimore, MD
The Woodlands, Philadelphia, PA
Subject
(Topical):		Disease
Literature
Health
Death
Mental Health
Childhood mortality
Weather
Provenance:American Jewish Historical Society
Publisher:Gratz College
Citation
for Scan:		Rebecca Gratz and Rebecca Hamilton O'Beirne. ALS to Harriet Fenno Rodman, Philadelphia, PA, September 24, 1800. From the original at the American Jewish Historical Society, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 USA.
Citation
for Transcript:		Rebecca Gratz and Rebecca Hamilton O'Beirne to Harriet Fenno Rodman, September 24, 1800. RGC0667, Rebecca Gratz Digital Collection, Gratz College. Image from the original at the American Jewish Historical Society. https://rebeccagratz.digitalcollections.gratzcollege.edu/item/rgc0667.
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