Letter from De Sola, Abraham to Morais, Mrs. Sabato. Montreal, Canada; Jan 1873
- Title
- Letter from De Sola, Abraham to Morais, Mrs. Sabato. Montreal, Canada; Jan 1873
- Date Created
- 28 January 1873
- Format
- 4 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 1, Folder 32
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p30k26w74/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30k26w74
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx1FF32_1.xml
- content
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Montreal January 28th, 1873.
The Rev. S. Morais
Philadelphia
Dear Friend,
I return you many thanks for your kind favor of 22d (detained by irregularity of mails till yesterday) and accompanying Bible with your valued Emendations. I had hardly hoped to receive so early a response to the request I ventured to make in reply to your statement that you had detected inaccuracies in Leesers version—that you would as you met with them kindly note them for my information-- but I am the more indebted to you for your friendly interest, and hope sincerely I may have future opportunity of [?]ing my due sense of your goodness and of my indebtedness.
I have not had leisure yet to see
all your emendations, but many I have seen not only coincide with my own views but will be adopted hereafter with due acknowledgment. And this leads me to say with reference to your query if I intend to revise the whole work to inform you that [Hebrew] I do intend to make a thorough revision of it—but this will be a work of time, and at present my numerous avocations afford me no leisure for it—indeed until after [Hebrew] the claims on my time will be such that I cannot at all attend to the publication of the stock of printed books in hand, and their issue will necessarily have to precede the publication of a revised Editions. If I can make the arrangements I at present propose, I shall have the pleasure of seeing you in Philadelphia again, some time
during the coming summer and shall then have the further pleasure of discussing with you personally the subject of revision, till then, permit me to retain your copy of the Bible--in lieu of which I will request Mr Salzberger to give you another copy--unless you prefer receiving yours immediately. If however you do not require it immediately I will return it in the summer, and meanwhile would ask Miss Morais' acceptance of the copy Mr Salzberger will provide, on receipt of enclosed. I perceive it was her book you abducted.
What I have written with reference to the revision of the Bible will mainly apply also to the revision of the Prayer book—the error you point out [Hebrew] is certainly a ludicrous one—I have an idea respecting it which perhaps you may not think so improbable—I regard it as a proof that Mr Leeser [Hebrew] having been brought up to the [Hebrew] and
its peculiar pronunciation has quite naturally spelled the word according to the sound of [Hebrew] given by them. I have often received from men who are [Hebrew] and good Talmudists, having too a beautiful [?] style, communications with the same mistake. Perhaps they can't see why when on interchange of letters of the same organ of speech is permitted by Hebrew Grammar [Hebrew] may not change for [Hebrew] since both are classed as gutturals! I must also try and make something more respectable out of [Hebrew] these two errors can be corrected in a few minutes in the plates & with little trouble.
Trusting that you and all your family are quite well
I am, yours very truly
Abraham DeSola - Identifier
- p30k26w74
- identifier
- SMBx1FF32_1
Part of Letter from De Sola, Abraham to Morais, Mrs. Sabato. Montreal, Canada; Jan 1873
De Sola, Abraham and Morais, Mrs. Sabato, “Letter from De Sola, Abraham to Morais, Mrs. Sabato. Montreal, Canada; Jan 1873”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/85760