Letter from Thomas J. Moïse to Isaac Leeser;January 18, 1851
- Title
- Letter from Thomas J. Moïse to Isaac Leeser;January 18, 1851
- Author
- Thomas J. Moïse
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 18 January 1851
- Format
- Letter. 4 page(s).
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- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3v698z22/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3v698z22
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- Unlined Paper
- Wax Seal
- Manuscript
- content
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Charleston Jany 18th 1851
Revd I. Leeser. Dr Sir. I have at last collected the amt due by I. I Cohen, and take pleasure in remitting Ck for $27.00 in full for the 3 subscriptions before alluded to. I begin to despair of Lewis Levy, and would suggest that you write him a few lines requesting him to remit me the amt of his dues, as you have no agt in Augusta, and are anxious to collect all outstanding debts. I can see no other chance of inducing him to make paymt.
Yr list has not increased much since I last wrote you, owing perhaps to want of energy on my part. I have been too busy to bestow upon it the requisite attention. Hereafter I shall do better I hope. Mother sends her kind regards as do all of our family & Aunts P & R hope that you may be enabled to pay Charleston a visit this winter. We have here, a Mr E Hart of yr city, Brother of Mr A Hart. He has recd some attention and appears to be a very worthy young man. Miss Isabel Moses has returned to Columbus, having heard of the sudden death of her Sisters child, The Jenny Lind excitement drew a number of strangers to the city and made our streets gay and lively for some time.
It is supposed that Mr Joshua Lazarus will be elected to the vacant Presidency of our congregation. Mr I Ottolengri? has just been made Trustee. Rev Mr Rosenfeldt has a call from California which he intends to accept & will leave for that region, I am informed) in a few weeks. His salary is to be $4000 pr annum, which appears munificent when contrasted with the very liberal provisions yr congregation made for you during yr ministration.
We have not recd our number of the Occident for Jany, altho most of yr. Chas subscribers have theirs. Can you, without inconvenience forwd Mosher a duplicate copy? I have read yr address, however which cannot, I am sure, produce other than a very favorable impression.
You may be assured that the Editor of the Asmonean is viewed in his true colors by our community, and that his assaults upon you, have a reactionary effect
You have doubtless heard that some difference has arisen between Dr Eckman & Mr Posnanski produced by excited controversial disenssions, and this difference has been enlarged and aggravated by the friends of either
gentleman who have taken up for one or the other respectively. An attempt has been and will be made, I fear, to bring the matter before the congregation in which the friends of mr P have a numerical majority. His opinions however are not held in reverence now, by what I consider the best and most intelligent portion of our members. These last, will sustain Dr Eckman who is independent, and inclined to orthodoxy.
Yrs very Respflly
T. J. Moise
Rev I. Leeser
Philadelphia
Pa - Identifier
- LSDCBx1FF8_13
- Date
- 1851-01-18
Part of Letter from Thomas J. Moïse to Isaac Leeser;January 18, 1851
Thomas J. Moïse, “Letter from Thomas J. Moïse to Isaac Leeser;January 18, 1851”, 1851-01-18, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/65670