Letter from Peixotto, Benjamin F. to Morais, Sabato. Bucharest, Romania; Nov 1874
- Title
- Letter from Peixotto, Benjamin F. to Morais, Sabato. Bucharest, Romania; Nov 1874
- Date Created
- 27 November 1874
- Format
- 4 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 2, Folder 1
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3tm72m1p/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3tm72m1p
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx2FF1_29.xml
- content
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Bucharest
on the U. S. Consulate
the 27th Nov 1874.
My dear and Rev Sir
I gratefully thank you for your kind and unexpected letter. It comes to me at a time of much gloom and awakens my thoughts to the dear land of my youth from which I am so far seperated and which I may never more see in this life.
Not that I do not wish to, au contraire the dearest wish of my soul is to be back upon my native heath
Rev S. Morais
Philadelphia
to be once more among friends and countrymen, to breathe the pure air of liberty, to be free from the horrible nightmare of this dark and treacherous land.
Alas! even if I would go to-morrow, I could not, not only the consciousness of my duty but the cruel necessity of circum-stances would not permit of my return so soon.
I am pained to say that the promises of support, so loudly & publicly renewed by a large body of our people in January lost at Chicago have not been redeemed. I have received but very little and
the Am R[?] Society seemed to have entirely forgotten my existence and the great demands the cause I serve calls for. It is useless to indulge in reproaches and then you tell me the times are hard and I have no heart to write letters when I know so much is required at home.
Yet, indeed our brethren should not wholly forget me and let me die in this utterly lonely and cruel land and I may before spring put their good faith to a test in asking them to aid me to return respectably to my native shores. How to do this I do not know, I wish I was once more back safely over the ocean with my dear wife and little ones, but I must
continue my trust in Him—the great and good Father who has preserved and brought me through every danger and trouble and who will not desert me now.
Perhaps you will be good enough to speak a word to our mutually noble hearted friend Mr. Abraham Hart and to some others who may yet retain some interest if not in the cause at least in one who has tried and will ever struggle for Israel's, freedom glory and honor.
Believe me dear & Reverend
Sir
Your very faithful
& obliged friend
Benj F. Peixotto
Please remember me to Mr. Alfred T. Jones and to Rev Mr Jacobs; & Rev Mr. Jastrow. - Identifier
- p3tm72m1p
- identifier
- SMBx2FF1_29
Part of Letter from Peixotto, Benjamin F. to Morais, Sabato. Bucharest, Romania; Nov 1874
Peixotto, Benjamin F. and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Peixotto, Benjamin F. to Morais, Sabato. Bucharest, Romania; Nov 1874”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/89363