Letter from Joshua I. Cohen to Isaac Leeser;August 02, 1848

Title: Letter from Joshua I. Cohen to Isaac Leeser;August 02, 1848
Author: Joshua I. Cohen
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Location(s): Baltimore; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 3 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English; Hebrew
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Isaac Leeser Collection
content: Balto. Aug. 2d. 5608
My dear Friend,
Isaac your letter ly recd since—the sight of your nt. even the limited lines of a note of introduction is agreeable—I am obliged to you for making us acquainted with Mr S. he dined with us yesterday & we were all pleased with the ? leather ? manifested in our common cause.
I write this in anticipation of a visit from him this morning—he goes to Washington in the afternoon & passes thro' tomorrow.
What have you been about this long time? Got through your biblical-proof reading?
I have been about only a few days this summer at York Springs, have been so well during the summer that I needed no special trip. When I saw you last, you spoke of a visit to Balto. Why did you not carry out your good intention? I am told there is a young lady now in our city from Canada, staying with one of your friends. Wouldn't it be a good time now to pay your visit & ? sepiration?.
We are all well in our families—all at home, except

Miss Rachel, who since the 1st Inst. has been on a visit to Miss Harper, at Newport—who has a most delightful cottage at N. She is enjoying herself much. Eddy has passed his vacation at Norfolk—& is to be home tomorrow, he deserved some amusement as he has been expecting hard students. Mr Rice has him in charge for the German Language and so soon as he was masters this, I will hand him over for Hebrew.
Will you do me the favour to send me the usual form of Hebrew Inscriptions for tombs used by the Portuguese. I have yet from Mr Rice a form, but it struck me that of the Port. may differ from the German.
I give you enclosed what Mr. R. informed me was a sure?. I wanted to ask you whether it was usual to put the word דיבנח—or the name without this prefix.
Hebrew

I have not added much to my Hebrew Library lately. I think tho' that since I saw you I have two new Bibles—one, the first edition of athias? [I had the second], and the one by opitius—? larger print. Pennington imported for me Hebrew with which I am much pleased.
Let me have from you at your earliest convenience in response to the Inscription for tombs, by mail— friendly all at home I am your friend
Joshua I Cohen
Please drop the enclosed into the poffice or hand it to P. if equally convenient.
P. S. I enclose Two Dolls. for which I will thank you to send me a copy of Miss Aguilar's Jewish Faith.
I wish to discontinue the Hebrew-it has lost its interests with us. I am sick & tired of the fulsome adulation with which its pages are filled-it may suit the London or English market but not our blessed country-its advertizements too of Holloway's pills-macassan? oil & sin In Murray's Their magnetic—? well in their place, have nothing to do in such a paper. So please stop it at end of the? year.
Identifier: LSKAP20-748
Date: 1848-08-02

Part of Letter from Joshua I. Cohen to Isaac Leeser;August 02, 1848

Joshua I. Cohen, “Letter from Joshua I. Cohen to Isaac Leeser;August 02, 1848”, 1848-08-02, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/66784