Subject: Hamburg (Germany)--Social life and customs

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Letter from Sarah Gratz to Joseph Gratz, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Hamburg, Germany, March 20, 1810 Letter from Sarah Gratz to Joseph Gratz, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Hamburg, Germany, March 20, 1810

A three-page letter written in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 20, 1810 by Sarah Gratz (1779-1817) to her brother Joseph Gratz in Hamburg, Germany. The letter provides family news, including the recovery of her ill sisters Rachael (1783-1823) and Frances (1771-1852). Sarah, as the eldest daughter living at home after the death of her mother in 1808, acts as the matriarchal head of the family. Her father was to die in 1811.