Mary Smith Grimke correspondence, 1825-1826, undated

Letters of Mary Smith Grimke, wife of John Faucheraud Grimke, to her daughter, Anna Rutledge Grimke Frost (1795-1882), in Philadelphia, re the drowning death of her son, Benjamin (1798-1825) and his child, her grieving daughter-in-law Mary Augusta Barron Grimke (1806-1843), and the return of the bodies to Charleston, to be buried in St. Paul's cemetery. With references to settling of her husband's (?) estate, a note to her granddaughter as well and references to "Sally" (Sarah) and Angelina Grimke, especially the latter's turning to religion, attending Presbyterian services, giving up fashionable company and dress and becoming more like her sister Sarah. Related materials include a pencil sketch, possibly of Anna Rutledge Grimke (Mrs. Thomas) Frost, and an annotation by Frost's granddaughter to Frost's anecdote concerning a witty exchange between South Carolina lawmakers, W. D. Martin and William Crafts. With a later (1881) envelope.