Letter from Moses N. Nathan to Isaac Leeser;June 30, 1848

Title: Letter from Moses N. Nathan to Isaac Leeser;June 30, 1848
Author: Moses N. Nathan
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 30 June 1848
Location(s): Saint Thomas; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 3 page(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3z02zr6s/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3z02zr6s
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Wax Seal; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: St. Thomas Crev Shabbat Kovach
June 30th 5608 (1848)
My dear friend
In the first place allow me to return you many thanks for the very handsome form in which the Road of faith has been printed and for the trouble you took in superintending its execution, also for the trans-mission of 75 copies for which you will be good enough to make my acknoweldgements to our esteemed friend Miss Gratz. If I knew in what manner I could make my humble abilities to the parent Jewish Sunday School in Philadelphia serviceable I shwould with much willingness undertake any other little work that might advance Elementary religious education, so admirably begun and continued that Institution.
Herewith you will receive our new code of Laws with instructions from Mr. Wolff how many are to be printed. The written copy was done by a lad, yet I hope the writing is sufficiently intelligible for you and the printer. The marginal notes are, of course, to be annexed. Have them neatly done, and have the goodness to use your excellent taste and judgement in the typographical art, for which you are so deservedly celebrated.
I may say of these laws as Solon said of his; they are not the best that could have been made, but they are the best adapted for the persons who are to be ruled by them. Many will per-haps astonish you, but on due and mature deliberation, I have no hesitation in saying, altho' I am a party concerned, that they and the labor of much thought, and have been framed to meet the exigencies of a congregation so heterogeneously composed as that of St. Thomas

Expedition is necessary in the printing of these laws no doubt you will be able to forward them by the packet which will sail from New York in August. If you do, I shall contrive to get you voted a piece of a plate, until we can give you something better.
I wrote you 2 months back by the Gt. Western. Did you receive my letter? Everything here looks gloomy owing to recent events in Europe and the civil war in Venezuela; money has vanished, for the last 6 months I have recd. no salary and even the latter has been reduced to $1000 p annum. I am obliged to have recourse to school shop again, but the establishment has every appearance and prospect of success.
My health is good, better than it has been for years past, but Mrs. Nathan, her mother, and her aged Grand-parent are all unwell. Your's, I hope, is not suffering from the summer heats.
Present my our best compliments and warmest wishes to all our old friends. I long to see you and have a few good chats with you and all those of whose kindness we I entertain so lively and grateful a recollection. Congratulate Miss Cousens for us, as we understand she has been or is about to be married. In haste
Most truly yours
M N Nathan

Revd. Isaac Leeser
Philadelphia
Identifier: LSDCBx1FF5_19
Date: 1848-06-30

Part of Letter from Moses N. Nathan to Isaac Leeser;June 30, 1848

Moses N. Nathan, “Letter from Moses N. Nathan to Isaac Leeser;June 30, 1848”, 1848-06-30, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69027