Letter from Abraham Harris to Isaac Leeser;June 1857 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Abraham Harris to Isaac Leeser;June 1857

Author

Abraham Harris

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Date Created

June 1857

Location(s)

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/p3x05xz9b/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3x05xz9b

Physical Characteristics

Unlined Paper

Manuscript

Is Part Of

http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516100

content

Isaac Leeser Esq
Dear Sir
Mr Selling called for your books and has them now in his possession. He requested me to state that the society is unwilling to defray my expense ocincurred. It is his intention to keep the books for a time to see if he can get customers. If he cannot he will return them. The people of Hartford will buy anything in preference to books. I perceive from the paper that Soln Jacobs is about to quit Charleston. I would like to know why. Do you think I would have any chance there as lecturer Teacher &cYours
A Harris
June 18 1857
The particulars of the murder of Jackson are these. There were three brothers two of whom were in partnership & kept a store The kind a youth of 17 peddled for the former. The young men were all good Hebrew did no business on Hebrew or Hebrew about afortnight before the murder

the three brothers left their business & came to Hartford to keep Hebrew. On Monday morning the youngest brother started with horse & wagon for the country. After being two hours on the road he was met by a convict named Jones formerly a clergyman in Hartford who had been convicted for robbery & whose term of imprisonment expired a day or two before. Mr Jones it is supposed spoke to him about some clothes with which he peddled & while Jackson turned the round he shot him the bullet going thro' the heart & producing instant death Jones next dragged the body to the river and heaped a quantity of stones round it, mounted the wagon & road up to a farmer who knew Jackson's wagon. Suspicion was excited, search instituted & the discovery made.

Identifier

LSDCBx2FF4_48