Letter from Morais, Sabato & Moss, I. L. to Moss, Rebecca; Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA; Dec 1870
- Title
- Letter from Morais, Sabato & Moss, I. L. to Moss, Rebecca; Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA; Dec 1870
- Date Created
- 2 December 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/p3q815b82/manifest.json
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- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3q815b82
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
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- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx1FF29_16.xml
- content
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Miss Rebecca Moss
Phila December 2d 1870
Dear Friend
With much feeling you father described to me the void which the demise of your aunt has occasioned in your uncle. My friends' grief struck a sympathetic chord and I felt prompted to offer you, but especially those who have been most sadly bereaved my sincere condolences. May I ask that you will be the interpreter of my sentiments? The living word possesses a power which can never be transferred to writing. Hence my request, which you will doubtless effectively perform. I desire to say to your cousins and their afflicted father, that to shed tears because of the departure from earth of objects dearly loved is to pay a tribute due to nature, but that Israelites must cast a trusting love beyond their narrow bounds. A scene bright and joyous would then open before our vision. For the truth of immortality has been written in letters of fore on God's hand [?], it is stamped on the depth of the human soul, and the pages of the volumes given for our g[?] proclaim it loudly. Would we but consider that nothing in the values of creation is lost, and that what appears to our carrel eyes to have died away, is reproduced in a new form. That our beneficent Mother has breathed within us a longing for an endless hereafter, and that is to be gathered to one's fathers" is a celestial promise to the a[?]ght, we would then cease to lament. Our sorrows would be greatly assuaged; our bereavements would be borne with pious serenity.
age: the instrument whose [?]ations caused us much delight may break, but the harmonious strains it evoked exists. In like manner, the body may moulder in the grave, but the mind which compelled it to rest, will live everlastingly. To doubt it is to disbelieve the power, the justice, nay, the existence of that adorable Being in whose image we were created. Happy those who can carry [?] the consciousness of having employed their faculties nobly. I learn that your deceased aunt was adorned with many virtues. Let the memory thereof speak consolatively to the sorrows. Her good deeds will be her advocates before the throne of grace, and will also [?] the blessing of the Almighty for her offspring and her husband. Such is her wish I beg you will convey to your sorrowing relatives, while I subscribe myself
Yours truly
S. Morais
Philada. Decem 1/70
Revd. S Morais
|Confidential|
My Dear Sir.
I thank you kindly for the attention yesterday & regret I was sent home to report to you in confidence the doings or rather misdoings on the melancholy occasion of the funeral of Mr. F on Sunday last.
Mrs F lead & joined in her children (two daughters & one son) that the ceremonies of cutting their garments & sitting in th evenings should be omitted. My cousin Mr Revd. Jaques said he had prepared an English discourse, highly extolling the numerous excellent qualities of the character of the lamented deceased. Format of which was a heart & ear & an open parse[?] for the pair or distressed & such a Mother!!
These children seem to be almost inconsolable & totally deprived of the soothing which the Revd. J might have contributed to & I know experience the neglect
I doubt not you know or have heard of Aa[?], world wide character for charity & many other good qualities
Rebecca the eldest daughter, as also Emma & Jo, are you know (I said children) are adults & full of comprehension & appreciation & If you could at your leisure, write to the young Ladies, as you so well konw how to, a consolatory & appro-priate letter it would be saving me greatly because it would supply the defect that bigotry only has imbued & perhaps the want of ability that exists in my cousin the Revd. I. And as they are girls of superior minds, I feel convinced that it will prove as balm to their souls.
I trust you & family are
well. Yours very sincerely.
J L Moss
Their father.
Dr. F is alive but in precarious
health.
Address of the Misses Feuchtwanger--
No. 18 West 35th St. New York. - Identifier
- p3q815b82
- identifier
- SMBx1FF29_16
Morais, Sabato, Moss, Rebecca, and Moss, I. L., “Letter from Morais, Sabato & Moss, I. L. to Moss, Rebecca; Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA; Dec 1870”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/88574