Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;November 22, 1859
- Title
- Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;November 22, 1859
- Author
- Abraham de Sola
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 22 November 1859
- Format
- Letter. 4 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3988371f/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3988371f
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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Montreal 22d Novr 5619
Rev. Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir
You could not have received any request to discontinue sending the Occident to Mr Brahadi who had refused it at the Post Office—and as he says directed the clerk to take the usual course of informing the Editor per printed slip of the same. I have endeavored to persuade him to continue it—but the only reply I got was he would also discontinue the Jewish messenger which it seems was sent him without his request. He is a London Chronicle man. Don't be offended however. The Israelite only circulates one copy here
the one received by your humble servant—and it is supplied me for considerably less than three Dollars per annum so neither Wise nor Gluck will ride in a carriage from their Montreal income.
Are you going to complete the Translation of my fathers Reggio? Is there no Dutchman at hand yet? My father writes me Mr Gershom Kursheedt has secured the rare copy of Hebrew of which I wrote you—and apropos des battes Dr Lowe writes me he is going to send me a copy of his Circassion? & Turkish Dictionary—I have ? David, and have a smattering of Arabic; but I hardly think am Turk enough to give an opinion of the learned Doctors work. It is gratifying
to have such a man amongst us. His work has been published at the expense of the London Philological Society. He is also going to send me some other of his works published by the London Humanistic Society more notice should be taken of him in the London Chronicle.
Dr Dawson the Principal of Mc Gill College—a man of great endowments and deep learning favorably known in the United States and Europe as one of the greatest geologists of the day—especially for his studies of the Carboniferous Flora—is about publishing a work called Archaia—wherein he considers the alleged discrepancies between the Mosaic & Geological accounts of the Cosmogony—as well as the origin of the human race. As Dr D. is celebrated as a man of science, and he will
write in a reverent spirit, the work is not less interesting to us than to Christians. I would like you to see it.
I require a couple of numbers of the Occident to complete my file. As Sarah Joseph—who takes this for me—is going to make some stay in your city You can send them to me by her. If I have time before the ? I will see which are the missing nos. I think I want Nos 1. & 2 in vol XIV—but I will write you again. Meanwhile I am Yours Truly
Abraham de Sola - Identifier
- LSDCBx2FF6_41
- Date
- 1859-11-22
Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;November 22, 1859
Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;November 22, 1859”, 1859-11-22, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69472