Letter from Emanuel, J. M. to Morais, Sabato. New York, NY; Jun 1870
- Title
- Letter from Emanuel, J. M. to Morais, Sabato. New York, NY; Jun 1870
- Date Created
- 11 June 1870
- Format
- 4 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 1, Folder 29
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p30z71g2z/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p30z71g2z
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx1FF29_7.xml
- content
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1915 Coates St
June 12th 1870
Sir,
I regret not having the pleasure of seeing you yesterday, and regret still more that my time is so necessarily occupied that I cannot at present call on you. I therefore must state my requests in writing and beg for a reply, I repeated that you, in course of conversation with my sister Bel, prior to her departure tuesday morning last, said to her
"Bel, if you feel as you say you do from conviction and that you have been going to church for some time, you still might have gone to church and spared your old Father and mothers heart, who can have but a few years to live and not had this public baptism." I cannot vouch for the words you used but this was my understanding of their meaning.
Will you favor me am I correct or not in my construction of your meaning, if I am not correct please inform me what you did say and I will retract my version of it. I have not time to write more fully but will simply say that I have had nothing to do with this unfortunate affair, that I knew nothing of it till I was told by my sister Elisa after it happened, that I mourn my sisters absence as deeply as any one, that I was born a jew, that I respect my faith and by the help of God hope to die a jew. I will be very thankful if you will ask Mrs A Hart to show you a letter I have written her on the subject, to day.
Respectfully &c
J. M. Emanuel
Rev. S. M. Morais
Mr [?] Emanuel
Dr Sir! Your note of yesterday reached me this evening, what you request I reply in writing. I am glad, however that you offer me the opportunity to disabuse your mind of the false impression received. It would—of course—be impossible for me to repeat verbatim, what I said to the erring one in the interview, which to my regret could not be made private. But this I remember distinctly, that her frequent attendance at the church did not at all for a part of our conversation.
I expressed, at the outset, the deep grief I experienced at the step she had taken. She answered that her home had been made very unhappy, through various circumstances. I then remarked that she should have respected parental feelings and kept in view the sorrow she would occasion to those who had stood breathlessly at her bed-side in time of sickness, and who had bestowed so much care upon the preservation of her body and the development of her mind. She said, that actuated by filial regard she had conformed to practices she disliked. - Identifier
- p30z71g2z
- identifier
- SMBx1FF29_7
Part of Letter from Emanuel, J. M. to Morais, Sabato. New York, NY; Jun 1870
Emanuel, J. M. and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Emanuel, J. M. to Morais, Sabato. New York, NY; Jun 1870”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/86056