Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1857

Title: Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1857
Author: Isaac Hart
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 3 April 1857
Location(s): New Orleans; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 2 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pr7nf04/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pr7nf04
Physical Characteristics: Lined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Jesselson Family Collection of Isaac Leeser Material
content: New Orleans April 3rd 1857
Friend Leeser
Rev & Dear Sir
no doubt ere this reach you you are in receipt of the papers of yesterday which I sent you each containing the account of the Consecration of the new Synagogue all that I could say could not add to it It was a scene that all creeds must have felt proud to witness every nook & corner of the Building was occupied in fact it was a sea of Human beings such was the demands for tickets of addmission that a large number of our own persuasion & many Hundreds of our Citizens were presented from attending oweing to every place being given out some day prior to the consecration I also sent you the little Book was was freely distributed to every one present containing the proceedings The Choir sang beautifully accompanied by a Melodeon & full Orchestra the sermon of Mr Gutheim was as you may have anticipated from the learned Gentleman exceedingly interesting & seemed to entrance the whole of the large assembly there? His discourse being twice as long I feel confident none would have tired. I have

as your agent requested the talented Minister to furnish me a copy for your Magazine I addressed him a note on the subject last evening but no reply yet received should the he comply I shall immediately forward it to you ? delivers extempore it may be some few days ere I obtain it or his refusal as If I must ask? not He does not care about publishing his sermons—after the services were concluded nearly the whole of His Congregation & many of the Rampart St Synagogue paid their respects to him at his splendidly furnished Dwelling anexd to the Synagogue. The House was brilliantly lit up with Gas & mine Host not unprepared for his Guests, who one & all did full Justice to the plentiful supply of champaigne & other good things ? Take it in all it was an event that will live long in pleasant memory to all who were so fortunate as to be present The officers of the Congregation deserve much credit for the credible manner in which every thing was arranged & carried out
I noticed among the audience a large number of our Oldest citizens with their families of our course Mr Sheppard the old friend of the late Judah Touro was among the rest nothing further to add but remain
Yours Truly
Isaac Hart
Identifier: LSTCAT_item163
Date: 1857-04-03

Part of Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1857

Isaac Hart, “Letter from Isaac Hart to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1857”, 1857-04-03, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/66995