Letter from Voorsanger, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Houston, TX; Dec 1886 · Sabato Morais Digital Repository · Legacy Projects from Judaica DH at Penn Libraries

Title

Letter from Voorsanger, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Houston, TX; Dec 1886

Author

Voorsanger, Jacob

Morais, Sabato

Date Created

3 December 1886

Location(s)

United States -- Texas -- Houston

United States -- Texas

Format

1 page on 1 sheet

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?

Language(s)

English

Source

Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies

Sabato Morais Collection, Box 4, Folder 3

Has Format

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3dr2pv30/manifest.json

Link to Colenda

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3dr2pv30

Provenance

Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.

Is Format Of

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx4FF3_44.xml

content

THE SABBATH VISITOR,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
JACOB VOORSANGER, EDITOR.
Houston, Texas, December 3, 1886
My dear Sir
Agreeable to your request contained in postal card I send one dollar in payment of the first and second part of the [Hebrew], the latter sent by you, receipt of which is herewith acknowledged. I sup-pose I received the first part, though I am ashamed to say, that if I did I laid it aside without wetting it. But I have been very busy for the last ten months, I suppose there are two more parts to follow and when complete I shall have them bound together with the [Hebrew], and then seek some leisure to read the two collections together. A hurried glance shows me that R. does not write as pure as Luzatto. I open-ed the pamphlet premiscuously[?] at p. 106, which appears to be a scathing rebuke given to Dr. Jost, who was one of R's pet abominations. But of this some other time. I owe you still in answer to your last letter, which somewhat astonished me, as you are not wont to write in a spirit of total despondency, but as to "burning it" as you suggest, permit me to say that no document of yours in my possession will ever go that way. I prize your letters too dearly. I cannot answer now as I am, to use a Dutch phrase, "till my mouth" engaged [Hebrew], literary, spiritual, begin going for the New Orleans [Hebrew] and what not! I must leave town again next Sunday; after the 10th of January I shall be able to write you at length, and I hope I may express myself as freely as usual. The Pittsburg [Hebrew] has given me the blues. I was glad, afterwards, I did not write. Faithfully yours Jacob Voorsanger.

Identifier

p3dr2pv30

identifier

SMBx4FF3_44