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Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Location(s): Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 1 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).; Letter
Type: Letter
Language(s): Hebrew; Yiddish
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p31z42929/manifest.json
Physical Characteristics: Lined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516100
content: In the course of two years I transmitted to Mr. Michael in New York, for the purpose of sending it to Jerusalem for German Students* for which sum I have a receipt from Mr. Michael 62.00 Through R. Isaac Halevi, at the request of the Parnass Samuel of St. Louis 10.— To. Mr. Meltzer of Cincinnatti, in order to send them to Jerusalem, as noted in a receipt from him 50.— Through the prince, the righteous, Moses Monte- Fiore, according to a receipt for £37.16 amounting to $188.60 Through Mr. Isaac in New York at the command of—5.85 316.45
*A “Parush” is a student who leads the life of a monk, having separated himself from wife and home and devoting day and night to study.