Rebecca Gratz to Benjamin Gratz - December 29, [1818]

Rebecca writes to her friend Maria, expressing her thoughts on the death of Rachel's infant daughter, and encourages Maria to illustrate the poem "The Wolf King" for publication.

Rebecca tells her brother Ben the latest news of family and friends and comments on the rising political tensions in the country.

Rebecca writes to her niece Anna about the events in Kentucky and her hope for an end to the war. She also tells her about the whereabouts and military appointments of various family members.

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).

On her nephew Cary's birthday, Rebecca expresses her regard for her sister-in-law Maria's sons, and updates her on the unapproved courtship between her niece, Miriam Etting, and a southern doctor and the health of family and friends.