Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser
- Title
- Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser
- Author
- Jonas Bondi
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Location(s)
- Philadelphia
- Format
- Letter. 2 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
- Letter
- Type
- Letter
- Physical Characteristics
- Manuscript
- Is Part Of
- The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516100
- content
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Dear friend,
I received the current weekly only yesterday. Many distractions and delays made it impossible for me — in this big Sodom — to send it along to you yesterday. I beg of you to take all changes into consideration. For greater accuracy I repeat the more important right here.
p.1. From establishment of Secure? Temple Cyrus
p.2
In the future I shall be careful that the manuscript be more carefully edited, in order that you might be saved the trouble. Consider how one's care in literary work must be di-vided ? among material, thought, style, and language. I can well say of myself (in the language of a Hebrew proverb) “I have labored and have achieved, believe him”. I am well satisfied with my work. Eevn if the Occident should appear two days late, the looks of this composition will overbalance that. I therefore beg for the greatest care. I especially ask to be careful that the appendix appear exactly on page 1, following that which is here written on page 2, and that the end, the uniting articles of faith, come at the end, Also that the notes and references appear in the proper spot. It would be well to send copies also to non-subscribes.
p.3
“And they said” —— they made all alike.
p.4
Please be good enough to send me at one several copies of No. 17, and also fifty copies of the issues of November and December, by express.
But the chief consideration is that you print the con-clusion, for it would be terrible if this were not done. At least you should print the conclusion to II, and then
I hope you will fulfill my wishes.
Again I beg you to be careful, very careful. Show me the personal consideration frequently to go to the printer's when he is working on this. “The work is more important than the worker”.
How is the English translation getting on?
A— sends you nothing, then how shall I send the Penta-techs to you
I beg of you to be sure to transmit the enclosed letter to the Mohel Friedmann
With sincere friendship, very devotedly,
Jonah Bondi - Identifier
- LSDCBx3FF4a_11
Part of Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser
Jonas Bondi, “Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser”, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 23, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/66152