Letter from Bernhard Henry Gotthelf to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1854
- Title
- Letter from Bernhard Henry Gotthelf to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1854
- Author
- Bernhard Henry Gotthelf
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 3 April 1854
- Format
- Letter. 4 page(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p33b5wv07/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p33b5wv07
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Louisville Ky, April 3d 1854
Hebrew
Hebrew
B H. Gotthelf
Revd Isaac Leeser
Walnut St. No 371
Philadelphia
Louisville, Kentucky, April 3, 1854
Very honored Mr. Leeser:
Your worthy letter, as well as the books therein noted, have arrived. For the books, I have paid $9.75 in express charges which seem to me unusually high. You must have patience till the middle day of Passover, when I shall take care to distribute the to your honor subscribers. I shall also make an effort to sell Dias. With regard to the “Occident” namely, its lack of success in this town no one is more sorry about it than I. During one year, so many have given me notice about it that I could not even note down their names. I have taken all sorts of trouble public and privately to change this attitude; but in vain. When the time for payment comes these people don't want to have it any more The reason for this rests in the lack of a true inner culture an old cancer, which it is not within my power to heal. The “Asmonean” has also no more than five or six readers, and when several months ago, someone came here to collect for it several of these few gave it up. The gentlemen have no conception of what means to support a work of this sort from the very beginning. In spite of this, I shall take the trouble to do what I can at the com-munal meeting which is to take place in our town during the middle days of the holiday. Our friend Strauss assured me of his cooperation. L. Lowensohn, our secretary, complains th? he has not received an “Occident” in months, in spite of the fact that he has made inquiries about it every month at the post office. It may be that there is another Lowensohn, perhaps Dayton, whose copies are returned to you. I beg of you to send his copy to our secretary who, though a poor man, is a good ? those he has missed until now I have given him.
I could not hear anything more since then about Simon and Oppenheimer, and you will do better therefore to retain the copies.
Please send me, with your next letter, as soon as possible a list of your subscribers here and in the vicinity so that I may be in a position to make collections now and then. I should also like to know my own standing with you. Also send me, as cheaply as possible, two sets of your pentateuchs, with gilt binding, a half dozen prayer-books in ordinary binding, and a half dozen in gilt binding, the Ashkanzic ritual. Several of these have been ordered from me for Passover.
Dr. Wise's history arouses little interest here. It has about 50 subscribers and only 10 or even fewer have taken up the work. Dr. Kalisch, too, will fare no better, it seems to me. I shall write to you in greater detail after Passover—also a variety of things about the congregation
My wife sends you her greetings. Please send me at once, through Adam's Express, the books I ordered, so that I might receive them before Passover.
Wishing you a happy holiday, I sign
most respectfully,
Your devoted servant
B. H. Gotthilf - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF1_25
- Date
- 1854-04-03
Part of Letter from Bernhard Henry Gotthelf to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1854
Bernhard Henry Gotthelf, “Letter from Bernhard Henry Gotthelf to Isaac Leeser;April 03, 1854”, 1854-04-03, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69070