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Hofwyl Plantation. Cohen/Gratz/Moses family papers, 1818-1972 (bulk 1858-1868) [microform].

Title: Cohen/Gratz/Moses family papers, 1818-1972 (bulk 1858-1868) [microform].

This series consists of bound volumes (used for business, personal, and travel expense accounting and journals), correspondence, financial and legal documents and records (such as appraisals, court briefs, deeds, inventories, mortgages, receipts, and wills), genealogical charts, extracts from published material, notes, military records, and photographs. Most information pertains to the immediate family of Solomon Cohen and covers or touches upon the following subjects: business/career of Solomon Cohen (including his assistance during a Savannah epidemic, ca. 1854), the University of Virginia, the Civil War, division of Solomon Cohen's estate, and Cohen/Gratz/Moses family history.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476088 View

Cohen, Miriam Gratz Moses. Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen papers, 1824-1864.

Title: Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen papers, 1824-1864.

Letters of a close-knit Jewish family, including letters, 1837-1862, from Rebecca Gratz to her niece Miriam Gratz Moses Cohen concerning southern Jews, social and cultural events in Philadelphia and Charleston, and family members; letters, 1842- 1853, from Grace Aguilar (d. 1847), British Jewish author, discussing religious beliefs, literature, and personal news, and from her mother, Sarah Aguilar, after Grace's death; letters, 1860-1864, to Miriam from her son, Gratz, in Confederate army camps, at Georgia Military Institute, and at the University of Virginia about school activities, religion and philosophy, Jewish-Gentile relations, the sadness of family separations caused by the war, and other family- and war-related matters; and miscellaneous family papers. Volumes, 1824-1829 and undated, include Miriam's commonplace and poetry books.

ArchivalResource: ca. 340 items (1.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24270341 View

Gratz, Rebecca, 1781-1869. Papers, 1797-1863.

Title: Papers, 1797-1863.

Letters from Gratz to Mary Elizabeth Fenno and Harriett Fenno, Philadelphia, Pa. (1800-1813), Miriam Cohen (1837-1861), Benjamin Gatz (1808-1863), Maria Gratz (1820-1839), Maria Fenno Hoffman, (1797-1823), and Ann Gratz (1844-1863).

ArchivalResource: 1.6 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70925047 View