Letter from Joseph Freedman and S Freedman & Bros to Isaac Leeser;November 13, 1851 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Joseph Freedman and S Freedman & Bros to Isaac Leeser;November 13, 1851

Author

Joseph Freedman | S Freedman & Bros

Contributor

Isaac Leeser

Date Created

13 November 1851

Location(s)

Detroit

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 3 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).

Legal

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Has Format

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3b85443n/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3b85443n

Physical Characteristics

Wax Seal

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries

content

Detroit Novemb 13/51
Rev Isaac Leeser
Philad.
Your favor of the 28th ult and also your valueable magazine came to hand We enclose $3 for our subscription & $3 for C & C E Baessler Detroit to whose address you will also please to send the Occident
We shall when an opportunity offers gladly speak to our friends of the Occident & your translated bible & solicit subscription.
As regards our congregation here, it counts only a very limited number of members & is of a quite recent organization. Several men having moved here with their their families (sometime last year) the total want of all opportunities for religious instruction of their children was severely felt especially as their business called them away from home most of the time. Subsequently at a meeting called among those few Hebrew residing here (12 members) it was resolved to call a teacher & shochet & also to buy a plot of land for a burrying ground. The incident expenses though con,siderable were contributed with a good deal of liberality & the above resolution carved out. The number of our member has since then augmented to 18.
The prospects for erection of a synagogue are rather remote yet being so few in number it will have to be differed to a latter

and more auspicious period. Should on your contemplated western tour you happen to visit Detroit allow us to invite you to call on us.
We shall cheerfully attent to any thing that might be of service to your cause.
Wishing you health & happiness
We remain Respectfully
S Freedman & Bros
by Joseph Freedman

Rev Isaac Leeser
Philadelphia
Penn
Paid

Identifier

LSDCBx9FF14_15

Date

1851-11-13