Letter from Rebecca Gratz to Isaac Leeser
- Title
- Letter from Rebecca Gratz to Isaac Leeser
- Author
- Rebecca Gratz
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Location(s)
- Philadelphia
- Format
- Letter. 1 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
- Letter
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p39z90v21/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39z90v21
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- Is Part Of
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516100
- content
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The Revd Isaac Leeser
My Dear Sir,
Unavoidable engagements prevented my complacence with the orders of the board of Managers to furnish you with a copy of the reports read at their anniversary meeting in time for its insertion in the Occident for the present month, but if you can find space in your next No. they will feel honored by its being placed on its pages. Have the goodness ? to say that the 30th anniversary meeting was held on the 7th Nov. 1849 officers chosen & the Reports read but do not publish names. I have always disliked the ostentation of seeing Ladies names in print, when the whole amount of their services are so very small — and the mere ? they go about doing good the better
Believe me very sincerely my
Dear sir, your friend &c
R Gratz - Identifier
- LSDCBx3FF7_15
Part of Letter from Rebecca Gratz to Isaac Leeser
Rebecca Gratz, “Letter from Rebecca Gratz to Isaac Leeser”, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 19, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/67733