Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;September 12, 1849
- Title
- Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;September 12, 1849
- Author
- Abraham de Sola
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 12 September 1849
- Location(s)
- Philadelphia
- Format
- Letter. 4 page(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3mg7gc18
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- Manuscript
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Sept 12 5609.
Rev. Isaac Leeser
Philadelphia
Dear Friend,
Yours from Baltimore I duly received but have been unable to acknowledge it till now. You are more fortunate than I in being able to run about and get a little recreation. I had fully determined to take a short time about the country but L'homme proposes et Dieu disposes. I put it off till this week when a child of Mr Moss dies of cholera and I am fixed, a veritable Hebrew. In respect to “the mystery in connection with a lady in Montreal” I have to remark (the ladies of course claiming first attention from we modern Rabbanim)since S Selig newman says in a sermon preached at the London Jewish free school, “the key ? used formerly to be Hebrew but now, complains newman, perhaps from actual experience poor fellow, “it is Hebrew”, the Lecture meant no doubt pathetically to say we had been Hebrew enough, and so allowed the ladies to turn & ? at us in the Hebrew form.) but to ? from this long parenthesis to the “mystery” Did I mention my lady? Certainly not and yet you seem very anxious to assure me that “nothing has ever passed between us”? who are us? You are one, and who is the second—Oh you guilty man! You can't keep a secret too, I find. It is certainly very kind of you to hope the lady wont refuse a good match, even myself, in your account after I already
wrote you that I would not stand in your way (? of me.) But seriously, my respected friend, I do not presume to suggest myself less to dictate to you who shall be your partner if what you tell me will be the downward course of your life, nor when you shall take her. You are better competent to decide these yourself, I hope that the little M? at banter in which I have indulged may have been not agreable to you In dismissing (for the present!) this soft subject let me say in justice to the young ladies to whom we have alluded that we might both “go farther and fail worse” As for me, my dear friend, if you find yourself “not in a situation to marry”, I also find myself in such a situation. You only hold your situation for a year longer, I have mine for three only, from present date, Besides “I am not young” and am too busily employed for self and others to think of marriage for a few years and Hebrew When I have done a little more (if I may be presumptuous enough to say I have done anything) for the cause I shall then be entitled to spend a few hours in the pleasures of domesticity as a reward for my work. You are now fully entitled to such a partial rest, and nothing would afford me greater pleasure than to receive a call from you to introduce you (Hebrew into the happy ? At the same time I confess that it would be a little gratifying to me if I were in a position to ask the same of you.
It was with regret and surprise that I recd your account of the manner in which you as yet find yourself remunerated for your writings, thus, mon ami, le temps viendra.
It would give me much pleasure to make the acquaintance of Mrs as also of Mr Cohen of Baltimore, persons of whom fame speaks so favorably here, I gave Mrs Cohens message to Mrs ? Solomons, Mrs S desires me to ask you when you are going to New Orleans Mr Touro of that place is related to them, and you know how it is when we have rich relations, we like to know something of their whereabouts. She would also like to know where Mr Touro is living in New Orleans I gave your message to Mr Jacob Joseph, but as his brother Pepe and sister Esther are in your city you can make your own explanations to the Hebrew
The Occident for September has not arrived yet so cannot say anything on matters literary, The articles on the Jews of Persia I shall not be able to commense untill after Hebrew. It is seldom or never that I stipulate for special time for the Oc my articles but in the case of sermons I do, I have published scarcely other than occasional sermons which loose their interest and effect when the cause or event they speak upon is part. Thus my Sermon on the cholera would have been much more seasonable reading for your readers while the epidemic prevailed, and might have been to me more effect, so a sermon I sent you for
Hebrew was published a “day after the fair” In future I must trouble you to let me know when I send a sermon whether it can be published at the time required as I would then prefer its not being published at all if not at the specified time.
You have been made aware long before this of the visit of Dr Raphael and Dr Isaacs to the United States. The latter ? avowedly to seek for a situation in America the former to make a little fortune by lecturing and as the chronicle tells us will no doubt be permanently engaged in the United States. I hope both these gentlemen for their sakes will not find themselves mistaken. I am not sanguine enough of you Yankee Israelites to believe that Dr Raphael will find a better situation than the one he filled at Birmingham & which yielded him £500 sterling It would be uncharitable to believe all that is said of Mr D Isaacs, but he was spoke of both in London and elsewhere as possessing a temper not at all likely to ? success. Let me hear what you think of the contemplated visits. I have now written your ? fully and must therefore close. Wishing you many happy returns of the coming Hebrew and praying that the coming year may be to you Hebrew
I am dear Friend
Yours truly
Abraham de Sola
The above text refers to Occident Volume 7 No. 7 pages 348 through 362. Click here to view.
The above text also refers to Occident Volume 7 No. 10 pages 504 through 507. Click here to view.
The above text also refers to Occident Volume 7 No. 11 pages 549 through 554. Click here to view.
The above text also refers to Occident Volume 7 No. 12 pages 596 through 601. Click here to view. - Identifier
- LSDCBx1FF6_56
- Date
- 1849-09-12
Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;September 12, 1849
Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;September 12, 1849”, 1849-09-12, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/66001