Letter from Joseph Morrison to Isaac Leeser;September 18, 1853

Title: Letter from Joseph Morrison to Isaac Leeser;September 18, 1853
Author: Joseph Morrison
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Location(s): New York City; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 3 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Physical Characteristics: Lined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Isaac Leeser Collection
content: New York Septr 18th 1853
Revd Isaac Leeser
Dr Sir
I regret extremely that I should have understood your favor to me to have meant that I should have had the pleasure of seeing you in the city last Thursday but on reperusal I find that you meant that you would be in town (meaning Philadelphia) this I trust will explain my not answering you before for I must be candid enough to confess to you that it takes some little trouble to decipher your epistles I regret extremely that you should have imagined that I should have written anything to attack you or your paper for without being guilty of any flattery I would state to you that I have always looked upon you as an ornament to our faith and although I might at time have thought differently from some ideas you may have put forth yet I have always considered your abilities so much superior to mine that I have thought you may have been right and knowing at the same time they were

honestly advocated. In relation to the article in the Asmonean in reply to yours I would state that some of the gentlemen composing the committee appointed for the purpose of procuring funds for the destitute in New Orleans observing the article in your paper thought that it would have the effect of preventing persons to subscribe to the destitute in New Orleans and for this purpose they requested me to reply in the Asmonean that being a weekly publication the bad effects of your article would not have so much effect I should not have written the article had I imagined it to have been the slightest source of vexation to you but believing that you had correspondents in the city of New Orleans and that your article was written prior to your going to press that you was not posted up properly on the subject or had not your servers attention drawn to the unfortunate position of New Orleans and the adjacent cities I shall allways feel pleasure in writing to you any news that may interest you or your readers in the city of Mobile in relation to my remarks upon the subject of China I have always thought with you that a general move ought to be made by our first

my dear sir that cup does not fit you I should be very happy to meet you prior to my return to Mobile which will not be until the yellow fever terminates should you visit New York I should have pleasure in calling on you or should I go by way of Philadelphia I shall take the liberty of seeing you
Yours respectfully
Joseph Morrison
Identifier: LSKAP0289
Date: 1853-09-18

Part of Letter from Joseph Morrison to Isaac Leeser;September 18, 1853

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