Letter from Morais, Leon to Morais, Sabato. Chicago, IL; Dec 1893
- Title
- Letter from Morais, Leon to Morais, Sabato. Chicago, IL; Dec 1893
- Date Created
- 24 December 1893
- Format
- 4 pages on 4 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 7, Folder 4
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3nc5sz14/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3nc5sz14
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx7FF4_11.xml
- content
-
Palmer House,
Chicago
Dec 24th 1893
Dear Father
Both letters received and contents carefully noted
I know there is no use in writing anything to you, truth or otherwise as far as some of my family is concerned for they would not believe it.
Admitting that I am all that Esther has called me still I write to you candidly simply because you asked me to otherwise I doubt whether I should write at all as you doubtless do not wish to hear from me.
I lost my situation with Mr Cay because I did not take care of the business properly and he discharged me, tho he promised a recommendation wherever I went, also Mr Weil.
I hunted high and low for a situation in Kansas City in St Louis and in Chicago where I have been two weeks, also-- lately there is nothing here and people are starving.
I admit that the Sloman draft was a piece of rascality on my part and on his too as he had ample security without the draft and I am sorry you paid as you say you are not responsible for my debts and that is the only draft I ever gave on you, tho I admit I owe money and will pay if I ever find anything to do, to you also, I want nobody to give me anything and I sent for money because I had nothing to eat for three meals and slept no place last night as the letter with the
Ten Dollars did not arrive till this morning.
But the Ten Dollars will keep me a few days still it is wasted as there is nothing to do here, and Krishbaum offered me a good situation and I meet the young man here and he told me they possibly could arrange to give me the sabbath under no circumstances would I think of coming home and sponging on you or working on the sabbath after what you wrote to me last summer.
I anxiously await the arrival of the answer to this letter and I hope you will put on a special delivery stamp and I would do the same were it not that I know I must make my last two dollars go as far as possible hence I send it off
at once anyhow.
Yours Leon
c/o [?] Sons 141 State St Chicago Ills. - Identifier
- p3nc5sz14
- identifier
- SMBx7FF4_11
Part of Letter from Morais, Leon to Morais, Sabato. Chicago, IL; Dec 1893
Morais, Leon and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Morais, Leon to Morais, Sabato. Chicago, IL; Dec 1893”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/88519