Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;January 10, 1860

Title: Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;January 10, 1860
Author: Abraham de Sola
Contributor: Isaac Leeser
Date Created: 10 January 1860
Location(s): Montreal; Philadelphia
Format: Letter. 4 page(s) on 2 sheet(s).
Type: Letter
Language(s): English
Has Format: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3f47hd90/manifest.json
Link to Colenda: https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3f47hd90
Physical Characteristics: Unlined Paper; Manuscript
Is Part Of: The Dropsie College Isaac Leeser Collection at the Penn Libraries
content: Montreal 10 Jany 5690
Rev. Isaac Leeser
Dear Sir.
Mr M Joseph has paid me three dollars for a years subscription to the Occident which I have requested Miss Sarah J. to pay you, if on funds.
Mrs S. Benjamin has written to inquire about the price of a Bible bound in the manner and for the purpose Sarah J. will explain—or has explained—to you. I only refer to it to request you to intimate to Mr S. B. that he would oblige by paying to me the amount he owes you—this Hebrew.
I enclose a review—not laudatory or elaborate enough of one of the best books I have ever

seen on the subject of the ? I have paid some little attention to this subject, but am better pleased with Dr. D's book than with many more pretentious ones. Any one who has carefully read Hugh Millers Lestim? any of the Books can well understand why he shot himself. If I had been an agent for an Insurance Office where he had published and I had read, I would not, if he had applied to me have taken the risk. And he has been immo? I think made too much of it.
Dr. D. has a claim on Jews for a little Hebrew. We respect Hebrew learning and

the Hebrew language. True it is that the Hebrew chair at McGill College was filled by ? years before Dr. D. came to this country, and I have not to thank him either for my appointment, or for favoring the chair. Yet I do thank him that he has invariably in his published writings shown how important is the study of Hebrew to all. But Dr D. has this special claim on us just now. He is a learned naturalist—a man of depth, and he is out on our side, and not on the side of flippant shallow German rationalists—who have imprudence enough to spare.
I would recommend Dr. D.s book to brother Wise—he seems to be in agony just now on

the subject, and will no doubt soon come out with a pragmatical Introductory on the cosma? taking off his hat to Adam & Eve, for re? with Abraham & not them—but he will have to turn the earth inside out to get at the truth. The articles in the Israelite on the historys? of geology are printed as far as I have noticed without a ? Hebrew
If you print my notice of Dr D's book, please do so at once and address an additional copy to Dr D—to my care—
Remain Yrs truly
Abraham de Sola
Why do I never hear from you Will you oblige me by mailing the enclosed for Andrew Cohen. I do not know his right address
Identifier: LSDCBx2FF7_1
Date: 1860-01-10

Part of Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;January 10, 1860

Abraham de Sola, “Letter from Abraham de Sola to Isaac Leeser;January 10, 1860”, 1860-01-10, Isaac Leeser Digital Repository, accessed September 7, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/leeser/item/69616