Letter from Isaac Leeser to Joseph M. Asch;July 10, 1840 · Isaac Leeser Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Isaac Leeser to Joseph M. Asch;July 10, 1840

Author

Isaac Leeser

Contributor

Joseph M. Asch

Location(s)

Albany

Philadelphia

Format

Letter. 2 page(s).

Type

Letter

Language(s)

English

Physical Characteristics

Unlined Paper

Manuscript

Is Part Of

The Jesselson Family Collection of Isaac Leeser Material

content

Mr. Joseph M. Asch
Philadelphia/
When I came back to town last evening I understood that you should
have/ said, that I had written a letter to New York
cautioning the people there against/ giving any thing to the congr. of seceders
of whom I have reason to believe that/ you are one. Now, as I have not seen
you to speak with you for several weeks past,/ it is impossible for you to
know any thing about my movements from your own/ knowledge, even if I had
written such a letter, which permit me to say I would/ have been as much
authorized to do, as for you to go on to New York to beg
for/ a congr. which as yet exists only in imagination. But as I have written no
letters to/ N. Yo. except to Mr.
Lyons the Haz. of the ? cong. in answer to a
friendly one/ from him, and one to Mr. Kursheedt on
business relating to Mr. Nelson, I demand/ of you the
name of the person who invented the falsehood and told it to you. For my/
private letters I am not responsible to you, or any one, and I cannot
permit/ my name to be used any longer to answer the purposes of the seceders. I
would/ not have noticed the falsehood if it were the only one of its kind;
but as I have/ been so often spoken of without cause I must insist upon your
disclosing the/ name of your informant to the bearer of this, Mr.
Sl. N. Carvalho./ Philaa. Friday July 10th,
Tamuz 9th
5600
Isaac Leeser./

Identifier

LSTCAT_item242

Date

1840-07-10