Letter from Gershom Kursheedt to Isaac Leeser;April 13, 1848 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Gershom Kursheedt to Isaac Leeser;April 13, 1848

Author

Gershom Kursheedt

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Date Created

13 April 1848

Location(s)

New Orleans

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 2 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).

Letter

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Has Format

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p37d2qt8c/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p37d2qt8c

Physical Characteristics

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

content

N Orls Apl 13. 5608
My dear friend
A few days since I found at Mr Steels the Prayer books for Mr Andrews, took them & sent them to her. Yesterday I asked Mr Andrews for the amt due for them $30, which he has paid, but as I could find no Philadelphia Bank notes at the Brokers Offices, I had to pay Banker 1 ½ % premium for the enclosed. Please acknowledge receipt of this & my last letter in which I sent $10. & let me know if this kind of remittance is satisfactory.
Since I lately addressed you I have been very much bothered with my own business & with setting estimates for finishing the inside of the synagogue after I had closed one contract Mr Touro yielded to certain alterations in the building which I wanted, & he kicked at till I had decided to give them up. I am worried half to death by the members of the congregation on the one hand & mechanics ? on the other, a perfect scapegoat to bear the sins of all.
Business generally here is at a stand & no money to be had however much may be due to one. I hope however that better times are coming, but so far as I am concerned the summer is a severe ordeal for a newspaper.
I trust the French Revolution will lend to the enlargement of the power of Israel throughout the world.
Excuse the brevity of this my dear friend & pity a poor devil like me whose entire life has been a struggle, whose every relation in life is so encumbered with stumbling blocks, that I would cheerfully quit this for another & I trust a better world. Believe me sincerely your friend
in haste G. Kursheedt

Revd. Isaac Leeser
Philadelphia
Penna.

Identifier

LSDCBx9FF18a_7

Date

1848-04-13