Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;May 08, 1865

Title: Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;May 08, 1865
Author: Abraham de Sola
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 8 May 1865
Location(s): Montreal; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 4 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
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Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: Montreal 8th May 5625.
Rev. Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir-
I send you herewith fifty Dollars which will balance the amount of my indebtedness to you for Books & printing to date. The following is a statement as per your favors of September last &c

“10 Sets will cost you
17.
$170

less 20 per cent

34

136

add binding 70 vols
60
42

6 daily
3.25—19.50
178

less 20 per cent
3.80
15.70

15.70
193.70

Printing Sermon & Biography

31.00

224 70

cr.

Sep '54 By draft
175

May 55 “ Bills
50
225.

leaving 30 cents to my credit; though

there will be due you $9 for Mrs Naapers subscription to the Occident.—I have been hunting everywhere to elucidate this matter, but though I have entries of monies paid on your account in 1860 I cannot find that I paid Mr Joseph that identical amount. But as Mrs N. paid, & you did not receive the amount I am the defaultee, and will send it you another time, as I could only readily obtain today $50 in your currency—now pretty near our own in value. While I write it occurs to me you could pay yourself & accommodate me, if you would let me draw through you on the esteemed editor of the N. Y. Jewish Record who owes me a ? amount Hebrew. Let me know, please, if you would like to do this and I will send you the order.
You would oblige me when you send the Occidents to let me have

at the same time the subjoined nos of the occident which I require to complete *my pyle—Except 3, they are all of the weekly series and failed to reach me through irregularity of the Post Office

Vol 14 nos 1,2.
15 no 5.
17 nos 23, 25, 26, 28, 31, 43.
18 nos 6, 12, 40, 41, 47, 49, 51

You can send them by mail—the weeklies can go in one wrapper.
In a recent letter you ask whether something can't be done with the Benjamins. I before wrote you enclose your account and I will do what I can with Wm Benjamin here. You also are surprised that your subscribers here are, so few, but Hebrew Jews don't increase in Canada. If you have no field here, be comforted with the reflection that neither have I

nor any one else. It is because I have as good a position as a Jew could obtain among ?, and that my position at College has greatly improved that I am satisfied with the extent of my Jewish field. I presume Mr Joseph paid you for his set of prayers in sheets, which I duly handed him. I am greatly obliged to you for the portrait which I have appropriated to myself—the other one we have I don't think so good. I send you some verses written by an esteemed & talented friend Miss Sarah Livia of London on the death of my brother Isaac ? which from their religious fervor you may think worthy of publishing in the Occident. Miss Livia who is not sufficiently known to our people has ? for some years some excellent pieces in prose as well as poetry to various London magazines and no doubt, had not her natural retiringness been in the way, she would worthily have filled the place left vacant by Grace Aguilar. I send the lines rather to show that the true ? is among
Identifier: LSDCBx2FF12_20
Date: 1865-05-08

Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;May 08, 1865

Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;May 08, 1865”, 1865-05-08, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/67569