Letter from D. Carvalho to Isaac Leeser;April 19, 1866
- Title
- Letter from D. Carvalho to Isaac Leeser;April 19, 1866
- Author
- D. Carvalho
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 19 April 1866
- Format
- Letter. 2 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p30r9m84z/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30r9m84z
- Physical Characteristics
- Lined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Office Assistant Quartermaster,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
STATE OF LOUISIANA
No. 32 Carondelet St.
New Orleans April 19th 1866
Revd Isaac Leeser
My dear Sir,
Your favor under date 12 Inst. is before me, & felt some what supprised to find you have sent the Books by Express without my ordering them, If you will refere to my letter on the subject you will find I only asked if you Could Supply me with a set of the same as I had of you some time ago. & what would be the price if sent by the Express. I called at the express office & found the parcel but in my asking to open it the refused until I paid $73.40100 which I refused to do until I heard from you on the subject. You may remember I only paid you $3? in paper & I had them bound in Red Morocco & Gold with my name which cost $12 in New York making them to cost $48 only. Yet I suppose as labour is now higher & things altered I must submit to a higher price. I am sorry you are so premiture in sending them until they were ordered. I find
you charge $25 for five Vol & $37 for seven why a diffeer of $2 on the Seven? I want the Books and will have no objections to pay the part of the Bill, say $68.40100 but I will not pay one Cent more, as I consider that amount quite enough,= you will therefore have to send a note enclosed in my letter to the Express office directing them to allow me to inspect the Books before I pay the amount and if they are to orders of my memorandum? say Bound in Morrocco & Gold Gilt Edges and names on the covers I will pay the amnt. but I shall never consent to pay such exorbitant charges= if you were not so premiture I intended to have got them sent to New York to a friend who would have brought them free of charge. Besides you have not stated what books you sent & if all my memorandum calls for, are sent, please look on my Memorandum as I named all the Books I wanted, times are very hard and you must not blame me if I seek to get what I want, please let me hear from you imediately as I wish to have this matter closed one way or the other, as it is no use having the books laying at the Express office. Remember, send the letter to allow me to look at them & I am to pay only the nett amnt of $68.40 & no more for chages; if they are to my ? trusting to hear from you imediately I am
Yours Respetfully
D. Carvalho - Identifier
- LSKAP0051
- Date
- 1866-04-19
Part of Letter from D. Carvalho to Isaac Leeser;April 19, 1866
D. Carvalho, “Letter from D. Carvalho to Isaac Leeser;April 19, 1866”, 1866-04-19, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/68369