Letter from Aaron Wolff to Isaac Leeser;December 30, 1849

Title: Letter from Aaron Wolff to Isaac Leeser;December 30, 1849
Author: Aaron Wolff
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 30 December 1849
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/p32j68m75/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p32j68m75
Physical Characteristics: Lined Paper; Wax Seal; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: St. Thomas 30 Dec 1849
Revd Mr Leeser
My Dr Sir
I have not had this pleasure for some time not having any thing of great importance to communicate I recd your introductory letter for Rabbi Cohen & paid him attention I collected $154 for him he left for Curacao 15 days ago.
It was with much regret pain I read your letter of 29 Oct stating that in consequence of the differences with yourself & congregation it was not unlikely that you would give up your situation as minister. I hope that your anticipations will not be realized & that you may for many years continue your duties. I regret to join you in opinion that the greater portion of our people lack in respect to their ministers & require them to be the tail instead of heads of Congregations, this feeling & the apparant non-desire for religious Instruction, added to the disinclination of contributing a few dollars prevents our having a minister. I confess that I am tired of exertion in this cause my return has been, & is, Enemies the only chance that a portion of our young people have of religious instruction is what my very feeble abilities can impart to them thro' the Sunday School, & even this altho' gratuitous I can with difficulty keep together, I am however determined to keep it up so long as the Almighty spares me health; even the leaches have fallen off & my Wife & self are the only ones who keep it on, God may in his mercy bring us a change.
Enclosed I forward you a pact of Hymns used in the Sunday School which I wish you to have printed in pamphlets of equal sized leaves neatly done. I require Two hundred with covers,The following Hymns composed by Mr.

Mr Carillon I wish his name attached to
N 1 Introductory Hymn
  2 Halel
  3 ditto    with the written alterations
  4 ditto
  6 choir No1
  7 do         2 with the word “both” inscribed in the second verse 1 Line as noted
  8 En Kelihener
  9 Forward to Jerusalem
the following after
O “God to thee my voice I raise; (by a Young Lady at Richmond.
Paraphrase of the Hebrew Creed,
from the Jewish Chronicle
Sabbath-Eve Hymn
Costly—Conclusive Hymn from Revd DeSola's prayer Book.
I leave the arrangement of the Frontspiece to you. I would like it to run thus
“Hymns” composed by the Revd B C Carillon for the use of the St Thomas Israelite Sunday School, as well as others selected for the same purpose by A Wolff Founder & Instructor
The School opened in the month of April 1842 Let me ask you to improve the above if you think it necessary. I require 2 dozen of Picke's Catechisms for infants please forward them with as little delay as possible
I suppose that Mr Nathan Must be now in New Orleans I hear that he is to be minister there
My wife joins with best regards, & I am
Yours Truly
A. Wolff

Revd. Mr. Leeser
Philadelphia
Identifier: LSDCBx1FF6_66
Date: 1849-12-30

Part of Letter from Aaron Wolff to Isaac Leeser;December 30, 1849

Aaron Wolff, “Letter from Aaron Wolff to Isaac Leeser;December 30, 1849”, 1849-12-30, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/67516