Letter from Isidor Bush to Isaac Leeser;March 19, 1857
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- Letter from Isidor Bush to Isaac Leeser;March 19, 1857
- Author
- Isidor Bush
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- Isaac Leeser
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- Letter. 2 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
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- Letter
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- English
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St. Louis, Missouri, March, 19, 1857.
Mr. Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia
Honored Sir:
I am very thankful to you for your worthy letter of the 27th of last month. The only think I regret is not to be able to give a more satisfactory answer. According to my experiences, you are about to give up your undertakings which you have cinducted for a long time with love, commendable zeal, and success. What you are about to begin to do has its bad side. Jewish interests are too dear to the heart of such as we to be given up after half a lifetime of labor for them. If you were to turn to political or other matters of the day, you may be successful. You are perhaps particularly capable to edit a mixed newspaper in Eng-lish and German, such as I have at one time hoped for and thought about. But in doing so you will have to undergo new and bigger struggles. If you were to turn to a completely new business you may have good success, at the same time feel a void which for you especially, a man without a family, can never fill with any kind of financial success. I have not received your circular and have read it only in the “Shebat” number (March) of the “Occident”. I went with it and with your letter to Mr. Nathan Abeles. I asked him whether he could not do something in the matter, since I myself am in touch with very few people, and these German Jews. I told him that I would sign immediately after him if he were to open a subscription list. He, too, however, explained to me that he does not come in touch with any more and can do nothing in this matter. He will speak to the brothers Shloss (Moses Shloss of Albany). Mr. Lach is but little in St. Louis. He passed through. As soon as he (Abeles) will see him next, he will tell him that he must be sure to come to me and I shall talk with him on your behalf. If you want to know my opinion, I believe that you should not turn the “Occident” into a monthly and a weekly, but try to turn the monthly into a weekly which may procure 200 new subscri-
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bers for the newspaper and no more. Should you make the attempt, please send me per post a circular and prospectus, and I shall myself procure for you several subscribers and send you the cash. The copy of Mr. Michael de Young could not be found in the post office. You yourself should have thrown it among the thrash as soon as you learned of their unwillingness to receive it. Others of the numbers that I missed I found in the letter-box of Messrs. Abeles and Taussig, in which I find my mail. You again receive herewith an order of Mr. Petschau, for the sending of several books, out of my commission book shop. These are the books you seem to need. I beg of you in my own and in your in-terest, to take a hand in my claims upon de Young in New York and to let me know what is advisable and what is possible to be done.
With respect and friendship
Devotedly yours,
Isidor Bush - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF4_18
- Date
- 1857-03-19
Part of Letter from Isidor Bush to Isaac Leeser;March 19, 1857
Isidor Bush, “Letter from Isidor Bush to Isaac Leeser;March 19, 1857”, 1857-03-19, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/66902