Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;June 12, 1855
- Title
- Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;June 12, 1855
- Author
- Abraham de Sola
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 12 June 1855
- Format
- Letter. 2 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
- Letter
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3xs5k331/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3xs5k331
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Montreal 12th June 5615.
Rev Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir
I received yours of 31st ult. last week with the Occidents and regret to learn from it you had not been quite well since your return to Phila. I presume however, you require no one to point out to you the inutility of permitting yourself to be annoyed because all things go not right. As for the fictional convention & the doings of our ultra reformers (permit me to say you attach as I think too much importance to them. By showing the extreme ugliness of their deformities if I may so say we can better serve the cause of historical Judaism than by creating into heroes a few men who have more philosophy than religion. The talent & activity of these ultras cannot but be admired, and movement and life are always better than drowsiness & stagnation. Perhaps if it were not for the doings of some of these mischievous demagogues a long Hebrew would fall upon the people—awaking from which we should find the fabric of Judaism had so suffered that most laborious efforts persevered in for many years must be resorted to, to restore it to its pristine excellence.
I am greatly obliged to you for advertising my proposals to publish school-books but will not further avail myself of your kindness for the present because for the present I abandon the idea of publication. Templo's Grammar I would have published as I intended
(as I before wrote you) so soon as you had returned; because you wrote me in October or November “it would not be a killing thing” & you “would not mind lending a hand so that But, perhaps I have to thank you that I have not embarked in a lap to both. Please under the circumstances discontinue the advertisement.
Now that I see Mende's Sermon, I did not see the no of the Chron? containing it. I don't know why Wise should ? out so lustily “plagiarism.” An eulogy of mine of “Vaterland” given before a crowded audience on Humiliation Day (I sent you a paper did you receive it?) was inserted almost word for word as the lucubrations of one of our “head-hitters” a couple of days after. There was no mistaking it, but I certainly did not think of calling him to account. Mais apropas des battes— I am sorry you appearing as a correspondent of the Israelite you ?. Will you please do me a favor, and let one know “by return of post” what induced you to write this. I do not recollect having contributed anything to the Israelite and will gladly pay 10 cents to have my memory respected, if I have written and forgotten. I am anxious to hear from you on this subject. I would write however for any paper if I thought I could thereby advance the cause I desire to serve always provided I was fairly & properly treated. I will even contribute (when so urged) to baby publications ? magazines which ? to spring up but which I guess not more, if as much as the older ones will flourish. I have not seen Wises article Hebrew—I must close ?sting you Hebrew
I will submit your circular.
I am yours truly
Abraham de Sola - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF2_28
- Date
- 1855-06-12
Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;June 12, 1855
Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;June 12, 1855”, 1855-06-12, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/68998