Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Brooklyn, NY; Jul 1879
- Title
- Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Brooklyn, NY; Jul 1879
- Date Created
- 18 July 1879
- Format
- 3 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 2, Folder 7
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p31r6nk33/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31r6nk33
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx2FF7_49.xml
- content
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No 31. Cheevez Place.
Brooklyn. July 18. 1879.
Rev. S. Morais
My valued friend,
A few days since I wrote to dear Nina, in her reply we were pleased to learn you and all the dear family were in the enjoy-ment of health thank God. Esther and I are partaking of the pleasures ob-tainable in Brooklyn and its surroundings. So far we have had a very nice time, the heat during the final part of the week has been very excessive that in a great measure precluded us from go-ing over to New York as we anticipated to visit some of our old friends, this morning and yesterday, the thermometer several degrees cooler, splendid breezes
to re-invigorate the mind and body. I am devoting this morning to writing a few letters, please say to dear Nina that she must consider this as a reply also to her dear favour, as Esther wrote to her we could not acquiesce with her kind invitation this week to spend [Hebrew] with you, we concluded to re-main here until Wednesday and then we must shape our programme to suit circumstances, as I expect my dear sister is at Cape May, if she is, I must spend a day or two with her provided she has the accomodations and must also spend a little time in Phila. there I am amply provided for, my stay East this trip is limited, as I must be at home the early part of August. Our new Board of Governors or-ganizes the second Monday, so I can-not make four or five months trip this time. I should like to prolong our stay
you may depend, for God only knows when another opportunity will be af-forded me to go East and enjoy the compa-ny of my dear relatives and friends. From Phila. we must wend our way to Richmond to see my dear children, and to Staunton to my dear sister Martha as she is on a visit there, so you see we will be pretty well on the travel now all the time. Esther would like to stay East longer, but as I made it a sine qui non before we left home that she is to "go and return with me." I do not wish to deviate.
You have doubtless heard and read of the proceedings of the Council that con-vened here, I will not reiterate what has been effected..
Esther and Mrs. Collier write with me in kind regards to you, and love to dear Nina, with all the dear ones, as ever, I remain, yours truly &c.
Jacob Ezekiel - Identifier
- p31r6nk33
- identifier
- SMBx2FF7_49
Part of Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Brooklyn, NY; Jul 1879
Ezekiel, Jacob and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Ezekiel, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Brooklyn, NY; Jul 1879”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed September 19, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/86121