Letter from A. Myerston to Isaac Leeser;February 12, 1855 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from A. Myerston to Isaac Leeser;February 12, 1855

Author

A. Myerston

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Date Created

12 February 1855

Location(s)

Puerto Cabello

Philadelphia

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/p3r20sg85/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3r20sg85

Physical Characteristics

Unlined Paper

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

content

Pto Cabello, 12th Febr 1855
Isaac Leeser Esq.
Philadelphia
Dear sir,
My last respects to you was on the 22nd September last, but I wrote you pre-viously regarding our brethren in Jerusalem statg that the few hebrews that are established here showed a willingness in contributing with their might in behalf of our above mentioned brethren, but they waited the arrival from the Interior of Mr David Lobo to meet for the purport. I had to leave for Curacao as I have written you, and on my departure I requested an acquaintance that when the meeting took place, he would oblige me by including my name on the list for two pounds sterling. I returned here last month together with my family and after having been here for a few days, I enquired whether any thing had been done, and regret to say that the answer I got was a negative.
The Calender you sent me was received here during my absence, but without any of your communication.
I inclose a draft on Messrs. Dallett Brothers for twenty dollars. Please pay yourself for the Calender, my contribution for the next year of your Occident and for a daily prayer book in herew and german, that I will thank you to send me by first opportunity. The remainder is for your bre

thren in Jerusalem. Excuse the trifle: the french say: “On fait ce qu'on peut, et non pas ce qu'on vent” If this trifling amount must appear in your Occident, please not to mention my name in no shape nor form—only say: received from Rosalta and nothing more.
Receive my very best wishes, and believe me,
Dear sir,
Yours, Respectfully,
A. Myerston

Identifier

LSDCBx2FF2_8

Date

1855-02-12