Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;October 17, 1854
- Title
- Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;October 17, 1854
- Author
- Abraham de Sola
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 17 October 1854
- Format
- Letter. 4 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p38c9rq44/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38c9rq44
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Montreal 17 tober 54.
Rev. Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir
Enclosed please find seven dollars 37 cts amount of 4 (larger size) prayer books sent less Express charges as per a/c enclosed. I hope to sell the small ones soon but would not wait to remit you, although the books are not yet paid for. I send by Express because the post is not safe. I once remitted to Moss & Bro. In your city a small amount which went where perhaps you and Mr Newhouses new ? are. Mrs Cohen sent a dollar in a letter to Sarah Joseph a couple of weeks since, that also has been geganavd? as a worthy Bar Tismel here is accustomed to say. It will cost you little more than post charges.
It trust you have by this time received the copy of my father's work on the “Melodies” which was ordered to be sent you from New York. The London press musical & literary critics have spoken in the highest terms of the books and pronounced the melodies incomparably solemn. Many of these melodies have
been introduced into the German synagogues of London since the publication of the book. I have yet received no orders as to advertising it in the U. S. Jewish papers; but when you again will, please let me what a square of 10 or 12 lines will cost for one year. I regret that only a few copies have as yet arrived, and as many as I could spare have gone to Editors—yours among them sent from New York; but I need not add I shall be much pleased to receive subscribers names from you until you can be supplied; or if you will send me the names I may be able to send the books. The work has been very successful indeed in England, and as they possess the plates I hope that if they meet with due encouragement they will issue the book at a cheaper rate, and also a volume of the chants which are equally fine. Please bring the book prominently before your reader It deserves honorable mention.
Sarah Joseph desires me to inform you that a copy of the Occident
is left for her regularly at Mrs Cohens in Philada—so Mrs Cohen writes her. Now as she receives one from me—you yourself having directed it on some occasions, there must be a mistake here, which you will no doubt rectify.
As far as I have been able to learn I regret to say our few who buy prayer books here are not likely to ? the publication of the Hebrew Edition of prayers you propose. If those who pay $10 for a set of Hebrew are a class who would sooner pay 8 more & have a set of Hebrew & English —while those who buy all Hebrew prefer those famous 5 dollar sets Feyertags Gibethe den Sphaidim? published “Bey Auton Edlen vore Sch? (may his shadow never be less—even if his paper & print be better.) This ever living house has issued more than one sugar paper edition of prayers with (such!) spanish or rather Shponish. I once thought it would do to print Hebrew daily prayers and spoke to you about it. But Bush's ?, and a very nice little one printed in Amsterdam which Hazan Lyons showd me when in New York
costing 25 cents put me out of ? with such a notion.
There is nothing stirring here worth writing about. I hope your synagogue gives a head and proves that there is plenty of room for two or even three for the Portuguese Minhag in these days of Minhag America
I remain yours truly
Abraham de Sola - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF1_87
- Date
- 1854-10-17
Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;October 17, 1854
Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;October 17, 1854”, 1854-10-17, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69282