Letter from M. Daunt to Isaac Leeser;October 26, 1848

Title: Letter from M. Daunt to Isaac Leeser;October 26, 1848
Author: M. Daunt
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 26 October 1848
Location(s): Curaçao; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 4 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
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Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3q814x69
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Isaac Leeser Collection
content: Curacao 26th Oct. 1848
Mr. I Leeser
Philadelphia!
Dear Friend
I recd your Sundry forms 2d March 2d May and 31 Aug together with all the missing Occidents and a letter from Mr I J Seixas explaining the detentions of these letters and books having been occassined by the negligence of your New York Agent, which I regret as it has been the cause of my losing many Subscribers, I was reduced to 5 but since the books have arrived I have got 2 more thus nowI have 7 Subscribers, in my last I informed you of having disposed of One Sett of prayer Books since which tho we have passed all the Hollidays which in the time to sell I have not been able to ? of a single sett. They all complain the Books are too large & heavy so much so that I have orders for three setts of printed on thin paper like your daily services, and as they fear you will not have them bound as they wish, that is to say One of the ?, he requests you will send him out, an unbound Sett if on thin paper, his object is to cut off the margins as much as possible

and then have them bound in smaller vols. according to his own taste, they being for a very young lady who could not well hold one of these books in her hands the time she should, in consequence of the weight, the other two setts you will please send according to the order enclosed, all three setts are bespoken consequently they must be according to order and those you cant fulfill (if any) according to the order do not send at all, as I am assured to receive them on my hands, you would do well also to print up a few setts more for me to sell with at least the Kee?m books divided, in two or three and all the always on thin paper, as these heavy Books will not sell, the West India ladies will not use them the English addit? being, so much smaller or lighter.
I am very much obliged to you for the notice you took of my dear wifes death, the centiments of pref?d being your own I am doubly thankful
I would surmise on the price of the Books you charge them 5 ? over your price as here 5 franc peices pass for dollars and if you require remittince in that sp? you will have to loose the diffre, however do not mention any thing of that in your letter as I may prehaps have to show it to them—

in your kind form of 2d May I? recive? with much pleasure your promise to send my sister Mrs. Luiso a number of the Occidents I have written her to that effect and have requested her to apply to your Agent in London if she does not hear from them— with the sett of prayer Books herein order to be sent unbound please send (on same s? paper and same size) a sett of Pentatuch unbound as the persons whiles wishes? to have them forming one complete sett, all bound alike and all printed as he likes, I will copy below this the order he has given me in his own words to avoid mistakes—
hoping you have passed pleasantly the hollidays and that you may see many happy returns of them I am Your Sincere friend &c &c
M Daunt
in your form of 2d March you say “The books ordered by P? Cabello will go by the next Packet, ? I do not Re? having order any books by P? Cabello or any where ? if you have ? any ? let me know.—
Copy
Note
One sett of prayer books One Ditto Pentatuche}
all printed on thin paper to be unbound, the persons wants to get them bound here that he may divide them to his liking and his motive for ?ing thin paper is because he wants them for his young daughter consequently wants them light if this cant be sent according to his desire do not send them—

Isaac Leeser Esqre.
Philadelphia
Identifier: LSKAP0034
Date: 1848-10-26

Part of Letter from M. Daunt to Isaac Leeser;October 26, 1848

M. Daunt, “Letter from M. Daunt to Isaac Leeser;October 26, 1848”, 1848-10-26, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/65779