Letter to Isaac Leeser;July 28, 1862 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter to Isaac Leeser;July 28, 1862

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Location(s)

Denekamp

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 3 page(s) on 3 sheet(s).

Letter

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Hebrew

Physical Characteristics

Manuscript

content

Hebrew

Hebrew

Denekamp der 28 July
My very dear uncle:
Although it is well a long time since I have written you, and it is not so well from me, that say myself; but on the other side thougt always I receive every month a book from you; and then I know also that you are in good health; the same I can tell you from my side and hope that our Father may give you health yet many years Hebrew......?
Also I have read in the last book that aunt is dead in the month of May, it is well good that God has taken her from this earth; in her live was nothing here; then a man how cannot see is very unhappy. My mother says now I shall well receive a letter in short time from your uncle, because the aunt is dead. My dear uncle, if you write my, to write a lettle greater than in the last letter from you, are any words who I cannot read, but therefore you must not be angry on me.
Last week we have read every day in the newspaper that Philadelphia and the other towns in Pennsylvania should be declared in state of seige, which make us very sorrowful becauseyou; and my mother and father says that you go to an other land where the war does not rule, than where the war so is, one

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