Letter from Cohen, David A. to Morais, Sabato. London, England; Sep 1883
- Title
- Letter from Cohen, David A. to Morais, Sabato. London, England; Sep 1883
- Date Created
- 8 September 1883
- Format
- 4 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 3, Folder 5
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3rn30s6q/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3rn30s6q
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx3FF5_16.xml
- content
-
London Sept 8th A M 5633
Revd Sir
I have the pleasure and satisfaction of informing you of the safe arrival of Louisa last Friday afternoon. I will not call her by her surname because she is for ever separated from the worthless man that gave it to her My object in writing is not alone to make known her return but also to apologize and explain why I have not written before for let me assure you that you would be the last gentleman in the world that I would neglect because more than five years ago you convinced me that you would give an helping hand to assist a woman that was upon an evil day united to a bad man which has been fully demonstrated by the part you have recently acted
I should have forgotten altogether that I had received a letter from you and to which you expected an answer had not Louisa reminded me when she called to see us last [Hebrew]. I regretted that I had not sent the expected answer but the fact is I had forgotten all about it And now comes the explanation why I am unfortunate-ly laboring under a nervous complaint that impairs my memory to a serious extent many things that were known to me only a short time before soon become effaced from my memory It is a rule with me when I receive letters from abroad or any distant place to answer them the very next day unless I have some motive for delay. I must have had some particular reason for delay in replying to your estee
med letter so afterwards I forgot all about it. The object I had at first in view about six years back when I wrote to that eminent[?] man the Revd Isaac Leeser [Hebrew] so good as to reply to it bec--cause he was already confined to the Bed from which he never arose
You have faithfully earned out all you undertook to do from the very beginning and I believe you have done much more because you have befriended her in a strange country and you did not foresee that it would be necessary for her to go to America at all I may venture to say [Hebrew] May the Lord bless you with [Hebrew] that you may befriend others as you have done to the one I thank and praise you for I am Revd Sir Your obliged Servant David A Cohen 22 Little Aln Street Goodmans Field
As the season is nearly approaching for conveying our best wishes to those we wish well I hope the God of Israel may you a [Hebrew] Louisa sends her best respects to yourself and family - Identifier
- p3rn30s6q
- identifier
- SMBx3FF5_16
Part of Letter from Cohen, David A. to Morais, Sabato. London, England; Sep 1883
Cohen, David A. and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Cohen, David A. to Morais, Sabato. London, England; Sep 1883”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/85399