Letter from M. R. Miller to Isaac Leeser;March 13, 1850

Title: Letter from M. R. Miller to Isaac Leeser;March 13, 1850
Author: M. R. Miller
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 13 March 1850
Location(s): New York City; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 4 page(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
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Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Wax Seal; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: New York March 13, 1850.
Rev. Mr. Leeser
Dear Sir.
Your letter in reply to mine was duly received, and I do feel ashamed to reply at this late date. But charitably suspend your judg-ment for a moment and let me give my various excuses. In the first place I was unwell when I received your letter, and by venturing out the next day I injured my-self seriously. During part of January, the whole of the last month, and up to this date I have been almost every day confined to my room by a bronchial affection, and it was unfortunate that I made an exception of two days, and ven-tured to walk out. I have had to leave Mr. Goldsmith's. In these circumstances I have felt inclined to let every thing else stand still, and attend to myself.
Not being fit to go out, I have tried to attend to your matter by writing, and to fulfil my promise to use my best efforts to secure the publication of anything that you desire. I wrote immediately to I Engles of your city, edi-tor of the Presbyterian, giving strong reasons why I thought he should publish your sermon. I requested him either to write to me or to send in his consent to you, and gave him your number. But ever since I have looked in

vain for your Sermon in the Presbyterian, and I have received no private reply. It is notwithstanding due to the liberality of this Editor to say that he immediately pub-lished Dr. Schelsinger's Reply. I next wrote to the Editor of the New York Observer, but I am sorry to say I never received any reply. I have written to other editors whose publications are read by all the members of the Synod, and without yet promising unconditionally to publish your Sermon, they raise questions about its length &c. and say they wish first to see it. So I hope I can accomplish what you request, if you will send your Sermon to me 122 Broome street. Please have it carefully and plainly written, and if it should be very long perhaps you would not object to dividing it in the publication. For my letters to the Editors I have urged as well as I could, that we have read too much about the Jews from Christi-ans and proselytes and that it is an act of justice which we owe to them to let them explain themselves in our hearing. So I will expect soon to re-ceive your sermon.
I am very willing to write in the next volume of the Occident as you propose, and to occupy as much space as you can give me, but perhaps it would be better to form some plan before we commence Perhaps you would assign to me a certain number of letters or a certain portion of your space and to an opponent the same. If a place were thus formed and

published at the beginning, there might be more interest awaken-ed for the Occident both among Jews and Christians. A regular discussion on a proposed question would certainly be more interesting than the irregular attacks of the past.
Dr. Shlesinger was anxious to know if I intended to reply to his letter. I read to him nearly all the com-munication which I proposed in my last letter to you, to pub-lish, he appears to be much interested in the matter, and if it comes prominently before the public, he will in all probability make a reply.—He has visited me very frequently during my confinement, and I feel very much attached to him.
You will continue to send the Occident to myself and my father during the coming year
Please reply to this at your first convenience
Yours very truly
M. R. Miller

paid
Rev. Isaac Leeser
371 Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Pa.

The above text refers to Occident Volume 8 No. 4 pages 184 through 193. Click here to view.
Identifier: LSDCBx1FF7_5
Date: 1850-03-13

Part of Letter from M. R. Miller to Isaac Leeser;March 13, 1850

M. R. Miller, “Letter from M. R. Miller to Isaac Leeser;March 13, 1850”, 1850-03-13, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/68641