Letter from David M. Piza to Isaac Leeser;December 23, 1862

Title: Letter from David M. Piza to Isaac Leeser;December 23, 1862
Author: David M. Piza
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 23 December 1862
Location(s): Saint Thomas; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 3 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).; Letter
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3ft8f49v/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3ft8f49v
Physical Characteristics: Lined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: St. Thomas 23rd Dec/62
Dear Sir,
I have the pleasure to own the receipt of your esteemed lines of 6th. Inst, and now beg to hand you herewith a Dft. for $47.78 for collections &c as p note annexed. The 2nd thereof was sent to Boston on 15th Inst. for acceptance, and will no doubt have been forwarded you thence ere the receipt of this. Mrs. DaCosta being unwell since last year, her copy of the Occident has been given up, and is taken by Mr. M. D. Osorio. Rev. Myers said ere his departure that he would pay his subscription to Mr. Nathan, your Agent in Jamaica. You mention having asked me lately to collect for the magazine, but that letter must have strayed, as I did not notice the request before. The Bibles and Prayer Bks. having been sold you may send me a new supply.

You will have perceived that a Minister for our congregation has been advertised for. The promptitude of the Board I believe was not generally known by the members, but to have the vacancy speedily filled would, doubtless meet with the concurrence of a large number. In fact the Bye Laws in recognising the Minister as one of the Officers of the Synagogue do not provide for his absence, and therefore it is held that these laws cannot be binding on the members while the illegality of any article can be proved. But I understand that only $1200. have been offered and while I know that our congregation cannot afford a salary of $2000. as you suggest, its expenses being already large, I must likewise confess that less than $1500. would be very small. I would mention privately that there is now an application but of course the candidate is not an Englishman, and it is not known whether he has had much practice in English oratory. In many other respects he would suit us, and

therefore, if this and one or two other points of which I wrote you before, can be satisfactorily understood and arranged, it is not improbable that we will soon secure his services. I have shewn your letter to one or two of my acquaintances whom I know to be favorable to your views; but in no community, I believe, are all the members thereof found to agree on any subject, and the causes which led to the resignation of our former Minsters have therefore been beyond the control of our congregation
With regard,
I am, Dear Sir
Yours, truly,
David M. Pizal
P. S. I did not collect from Mr. Simmonds as you made no mention of it.
Rec'd for Occident from Major Wolff,
Messrs. J. Fidanque Jr, Sol. L. Maduro,
M. R. A. Correa, A. D. DeJongh, M. D.
Osorio, & self $21.—
4 D. Prayers $12 4 Bibles $10 22
$43.—
Dft @ 10 D/S on W. J. Haskell & Co. Boston $47.78@10% dis. 43
Identifier: LSDCBx2FF9_56
Date: 1862-12-23

Part of Letter from David M. Piza to Isaac Leeser;December 23, 1862

David M. Piza, “Letter from David M. Piza to Isaac Leeser;December 23, 1862”, 1862-12-23, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/67056