Letter from Menahem Elya Marcussohn to Isaac Leeser;November 14, 1854 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title: Letter from Menahem Elya Marcussohn to Isaac Leeser;November 14, 1854
Author: Menahem Elya Marcussohn
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 14 November 1854
Location(s): Pittsburgh; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 2 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).; Letter
Type: Letter
Language(s): English; Hebrew
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3hm5353p/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3hm5353p
Physical Characteristics: Lined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: Hebrew

Thurs Nov 2, 1854
Hebrew
Pittsburgh, Friday, 14th Heshvan, 1854
(Nov.)
Sir,
In the Occident I found an enclosed leaf in which you announce your intention to print prayer-books and holiday-books translated into English. I too am ready to buy some from you, but I do not know yet whether according to German or Polish ritual. I have also shown this to my acquaintances here and they replied to me as follows; “We subscribed to the Bible which he was preparing: it is now three years and we have neither seen nor heard anything about it.” I at once showed them your state-ment in the Occident, but they were not satisfied. If, therefore, you desire what answer I could give them, I shall do all possible, and shall send by the hand of a traveler in the near future the money due for the Occident.
Your friend,
Menahem Elya Marcussohn?
Identifier: LSDCBx2FF1_90
Date: 1854-11-14