Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;August 15, 1865
- Title
- Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;August 15, 1865
- Author
- Abraham de Sola
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 15 August 1865
- Format
- Letter. 3 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3db7w98g/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3db7w98g
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Mountain Collage, Cote St Catharine
Montreal 15 August 1865.
My dear Sir—
Yours of 13th ult. Found me out of town—like yourself, I have been moving about a little-though my circuit has not extended to Yankee-land. I was sorry to find you had been suffering somewhat from lungs & throat. Being myself somewhat delicate in those regions, and a fellow feeling making us wondrous kind, I felt for you, and trust that your trip south has helped completely to restore you. With reference to your visit to Baltimore—had I been in time I should have urged you to continue in office as President of your district of Benai Berith, for since this organisation, which I view with anything but favor, has assumed its present proportions, I suppose we must look after it, lest our humble
modest pious &c reform brethren use it as a tool—a terrible one too— against orthodoxy. But I hate the very idea of a Jewish secret society— no Roman Catholic prelate ever hated masonry orangeism Ribbonism or any other secret ism more than I abhor such an organisation among us- or one at all approaching these Christian religious or political secret societies. But I am not going to trouble you with a disquisition on them, especially as I have an abominable pen which will stick into the paper, and being away from home I cannot change it.
I will, as usual, bring the circular you enclosed me prominently before our small circle here—I fear with but little success. We have too many Polish & German brethren for English-books—though not for synagogue purposes, and I don't know what I should do without them. I sometimes think I am
as much a Pollock as any of them. Hebrew.
I gave Sarah Joseph your message, and she wishes I believe to make an enclosure for you in this. If she is “up to time”, well, if not, you will get it another time.
I heard lately that Mr Dd Judah of Baltimore has gone the way of all the earth. He was nominally my agent for that city, and when he died, held some books or proceeds thereof on hand. Would you kindly inform me as to the best means of proceeding to obtain one or the other?
With best wishes, and hoping to hear soon from you
I remain yours faithfully
Abraham de Sola - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF12_27
- Date
- 1865-08-15
Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;August 15, 1865
Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;August 15, 1865”, 1865-08-15, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/65310