Letter from Jeanette Elkus to Isaac Leeser;December 05, 1862 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Jeanette Elkus to Isaac Leeser;December 05, 1862

Author

Jeanette Elkus

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Location(s)

Denekamp

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 4 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

Denekamp the 5 December 1862
My very dear uncle!
That you may receive these rules in the best health is my upright heartly wish.
What is to me I find my as well as possible thank God and I hope to hear soon the same from you my dear; and I wish at the same time that our heavenly father may let us life in the best health yet many years good together Hebrew. My dear uncle? I have M? waited already long at one letter from you but in vain; although I well receive your book every month which is also good but I beg you friendly that you may satisfy on me request; and write me now a great letter and you shall be assured that I shall not be wanting to answer you as soon as I have received your letter.

My father goes the day after tomorrow at Hamburg he has th do there any business and take this letter and the cheeses which you receive annexed this thill there; and I wish you of all my hearth that you my eat them in the best health. I look yet often on your picture and as often as I regard it I think I would you were by us: and wished well that it could be so, it should do me the greatest pleasure what I could enjoy.
The war which is by you caused everywhere, where are fabricks a great distress and bring about much poverty; give God that it may be almost on the end; then unity makes power.
Now my dear uncle! I know at this time none news to write you, another time more.
Be saluted many times from me and in the hope to receive soon a great letter from you; I am and

I remain which the most respect Your affectionated niece till in eternity
Jeanette Elkus
Hebrew

Identifier

LSKAP20-965

Date

1862-12-05