Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser
- Title
- Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser
- Author
- Jonas Bondi
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Location(s)
- Philadelphia
- Format
- Letter. 1 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
- Letter
- Type
- Letter
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3804z21z/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3804z21z
- Physical Characteristics
- Lined Paper
- Manuscript
- Is Part Of
- http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124516100
- content
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My dear friend:
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What shall I say to your complaints and suffering? Am I not in a much sadder position? I am completely shut offnfrom the world. I cannot hold a literary conversation with anybody. That is what is meant by, “He who increases knowledge, increases pain”. In addition, I feel very poorly.
The proof sheets-the second set — I received only today. I have corrected them again but only superficially, so that the first are probably more correct. Nevertheless, I send you these because they are corrected more neatly.
I did not take the pentateuch over. It is too expensive.
I send you cordial greetings.
Yours sincerely,
Jonah Bondi
It is very unpleasant for me not to see printed the entire preface and introduction. The few lines on II must, in any event, be printed over again. Please do so. With the Hebrew warning, I am not in sympathy. At least in January, more will have to be printed, for which I shall send you the continuation of the manuscript. - Identifier
- LSDCBx3FF4a_14
Part of Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser
Jonas Bondi, “Letter from Jonas Bondi to Isaac Leeser”, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 23, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/68212