Rebecca Gratz and Sara Gratz Moses Joseph to Maria Gist Gratz - November 28, [1839]

Writing to her sister-in-law Ann, Rebecca settles the finances for the clothing she sent to Kentucky, announces the birth of Mary Riggs's daughter, and updates her on the health and travels of other family and friends.

Awaiting a visit from her brother Ben, Rebecca writes to her sister-in-law Ann, giving updates on the health, travels, and housing of family and friends.

Rebecca updates her sister-in-law Ann on the latest news of family and friends and comments on the differing politics of her brother Ben's son Howard.

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).

Rebecca sends her brother Ben more condolences on the death of his son Cary,