Letter from Sig. Waterman to Isaac Leeser;July 19, 1849
- Title
- Letter from Sig. Waterman to Isaac Leeser;July 19, 1849
- Author
- Sig. Waterman
- Contributor
- Isaac Leeser
- Date Created
- 19 July 1849
- Format
- Letter. 2 page(s) on 1 sheet(s).
- Type
- Letter
- Language(s)
- English
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3599zt2c/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3599zt2c
- Physical Characteristics
- Unlined Paper
- Manuscript
- content
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New York July 19th 1849
Dear I. Leeser
Mr. Bush mentioned several times some of your remarks which convince me that you know my name and I therefore need not introduce myself.
Your remarks concerning Frank's Teffila show that you dont understand my attitude towards that work. Mr. Frank? was recommended to me as a poor but industrious Jew. He asked me to translate for him several German prayers by Schlesinger. I declined to do that because I hate to do machine work but I promised him to write a few original English prayers for him which I could not do up to now because I did not have the time. I did not authorize Mr. Frank to mention my name as translator. I am not very keen to ?and in the limelight and I know that this work will stand my scrutiny. If the Herald would have continued to exist I would have published my opinion about that long ago. I shall however wait till the work is ready and then I shall give an explanation in the introduction which will seem to you probably the
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only honorable way and which will protect Mr. Frank to loose out, as he would be ruined totally otherwise.
How and why your work compeats with that of Mr. Frank is not my business, nor do I care, as you probably have noticed by now.
How about an answer to Mr. Becker's attack on the friends? Is justice asleep and did your Occident become a party journal? Can the friends patronize your paper which attacks them in an unmanly way and observes a long silence, so that a defense looks like the last ray of the sun before the darkness of the night? Indeed you work slowly to do justice to those who have a right to ask for justice. If you care to have subscribers among the friends, I think you should first try to heal the wound which you inflicted or at least dont cause the fruit of enemies? which already prevails so terribly among us.
This letter, Mr. Leeser is of course strictly confidential and nothing may be published. My brother L. Waterman of New Haven Conn. desires the occident. Mr. Bush is going to order it.
Awaiting your reply I am
very truly yours,
Sig. Waterman, M. D.
411 Grand Street - Identifier
- LSKAP0132
- Date
- 1849-07-19
Part of Letter from Sig. Waterman to Isaac Leeser;July 19, 1849
Sig. Waterman, “Letter from Sig. Waterman to Isaac Leeser;July 19, 1849”, 1849-07-19, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69521