Letter from to Isaac Leeser;October 04, 1859 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from to Isaac Leeser;October 04, 1859

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Date Created

4 October 1859

Location(s)

San Francisco

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 4 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).

Letter

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Has Format

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rf5m19f/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rf5m19f

Physical Characteristics

Unlined Paper

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

content

San Francisco Oct 4 1859
Revd Isaac Leeser
Dear friend—
I have duly recd your Letter of the 11th ulto also the list of your debtors for the subscription of the “Occident”
I send you enclosed sight Draft on Drexel & Co for $65.20 for which I have paid 2% exchange making $1.30¢ which together amount to $66.50, being the amount I have collected for the subscription of the “Occident” as follows:

M. Mayblum
San Francisco
$3.00

H. Neustadter
“
5.—

D. Stern
“
5.—

Samuel Marx
“
9.—

Hamburger Brothers
“
10.—

L. Tichner
“
6.—

Scholle Bros
“
7.50

Lazard Freres
“
9.—

H. W. Stein
“
3.—

Jules Cerf
“
6.—

J. A. Brunner
“ 1 year adv.
3.—

(making the above mentioned sum)

$66.50

You will perceive that the most of mentioned payments are not in full, as I have followed out your requests & have compromised with

all those who complained that they did not receive the “Occidents” regularly, that they never ordered them, that they gave notice for a discontinuation &c &c. & I have deemed it to be your benefit to comply with your request & took all I could get from the parties.
You have Mr Mayblum down for 2 years; he says that he recd the “Occident” in the capacity of South Carolina of Post Master & as such did not think himself liable for any subscription &c therefore I have compromised it for $3.00
$5.00 is all I could collect from H Neustadter; says that he did not wish the Occid for some time; he wishes to stop his subscription The same remark is applicable to D. Stern
Mr Saml Hart wishes all the back Nos since the weekly has been commenced
Hamburger Bros think they cannot owe you $15.00, still if you were sure they will pay the Balance of $5.00
$7.50 was the most I could draw from Scholle Bros; they wish the “Occident” no more.
H. W. Stern makes the reason for paying less, not receiving it & ?; he also wishes to discontinue his subscription
Mr S. T. Meyer, whom you have on the list resides now at New York; Mr Aaron Jacobs there can tell you where he can be found. Jules Cerf makes also the excuse

not having subscribed & ? he wishes to dis--continue his subscription, you will observe that I also settled with him.
Since you gave me authority to settle with the parties who made excuses & complaints to escape payments, I have used it, & with my most active endeavors in your behalf have I worked to make these collections, & I trust you will approve of my work.
I would beg leave to suggest to you to stop always the subscription when desired, as you cannot afford to supply people with papers without their wishes & payments.
Please do not forget to acknowledge in your next issue all the various payments as collected; as I have not given any receipts, save in a single instance.
Please accept the following new subscribers I got: Lewis Cohn, San Francisco J. A. Bruner, San Francisco, (the latter gentleman has paid one year's subscription in advance, which you will observe amongst the list of collections) Regensburger & Stern San Francisco, whose subscription is in place of D Stern (discontinued)
Mr Alexander Mayer who arrived here in safety from Phil requests me to state that he has sold all the bibles save one. Mr Jacob Bloomingdale whom

you have on the list lives now in Germany think Frankfort. I see that you have Haas & Rosenfeld on the list for $15.00, which is doubtful that I will be able to collect as on their last payment they requested a discontinuance, of which I wrote you at the time. Raphael Schoyer is not in the city, he left for Japan.
S. Fleishhacker resides at Placerville & I hope you will not send him the “Occident” as you can never ex--pect a cent from him, being too fond of whiskey & rum. Hess lives in N York. where Cha-Simon is I cannot tell, you better therefore discontinue sending the “Occid” to him. From F. M. Reinhart I cannot collect anything; he lives here now & am well acquainted with him. Aaron Rosenheim does not live anymore at Nevada, he resides here now; I think his Brother lives there yet. You are wrong in believing then Aaron Rosenheim rich.
I have made those collections all myself; time did not allow me to call on every one as yet, but shall do so as soon as I shall have some

Identifier

LSDCBx2FF6_34

Date

1859-10-04