Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;April 22, 1861
- Title
- Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;April 22, 1861
- Author
- Abraham de Sola
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 22 April 1861
- Format
- Letter. 4 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3b56dq8b/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3b56dq8b
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Montreal 22d April 1861
Rev Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir—
I should have replied to your last favor earlier but that I have had very little leisure to do so. With reference to the Messrs Benjamins accounts I have more than once called their attention to their indebtedness to you—as Mr Joseph has also done. I have no doubt Mr S. B. will settle before he leaves for Europe.
I have taken no active part in the commercial affairs of our Calendar since I gave you the former copies; but I
I will send you a few copies per earliest opportunity. Mrs Joseph goes soon I believe to Philadelphia.
I have commenced a Biography of my late reverd father Hebrew; but do not think I shall publish it just yet— I would gladly send it to the Occident in its monthly form but I was asked some time back for a Biographical notice by another Jewish paper and partially promised to give it him. In any case I should be glad to see it in your columns if you deemed it suitable.
I only live longer from the unhappy hour of my beloved
parents death to realize more and more the extent of his loss. You knew but little very little of him, but had you known his deep learning which his meekness but too much concealed—his true piety, his manly upright hearing and sterling worth—had you ever seen him in the domestic circle and observed how all his children without exception idolised him—and how among the married ones the tie was equally strong, you could somewhat realise the bitter grief of his children, and the force of the blow which prostrated me But through the mercy of the Righteous Judge, I was not life without much consolation form above; his reputation, and the numerous warm sympathizing
friends his widow & children found—the deep seated regret which even now pervades his late congregation who have mostly grown up under him—and who without exception respected and loved him as a father, would not be without consoling influence. Never was Minister so universally loved, and respected by the sister congregations in England. But Gods will be done Hebrew
I presume you are aware my brother Samuel has, in accordance with my late fathers design & wish been appointed as assistant Hazan for two years, and it is the unanimous desire of the Hebrew that he qualify himself as a lecturer. He has matriculated (after 1st honors at Jews College) at the London University for his degree of B. A. More of this some other time. I must now close.
Yours truly
Abraham de Sola - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF8_5
- Date
- 1861-04-22
Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;April 22, 1861
Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;April 22, 1861”, 1861-04-22, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69198