Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen to Rebecca Gratz - April 29, 1857

Mary Riggs, Ben Gratz's warden, tells Rebecca of her life in Lexington and comments on her latest readings. She also shares news about the family of Rebecca's brother Ben.

Miriam writes to her aunt Rebecca, expressing her abhorrence of the wedding of abolitionists Angelina Grimké and Theodore Dwight Weld, at which both Black and white guests were in attendance.

Rebecca updates her friend Maria on the health and whereabouts of various family members and friends.

Deeply affected by the death of her estranged brother Simon, Rebecca gives her sister-in-law Maria a detailed account of his last days and expresses hope that the family's relationship with his children can be restored.