Letter from Voorsanger, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Houston, TX; Oct 1882
- Title
- Letter from Voorsanger, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Houston, TX; Oct 1882
- Date Created
- 16 October 1882
- Format
- 2 pages on 2 sheets
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 3, Folder 3
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p34b2xq8w/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p34b2xq8w
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx3FF3_30.xml
- content
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JACOB VOORSANGER,
Box 319.
Houston, Texas, Oct 16 1882
Rev. S. Morais
My dear Sir
Your welcome favor of the 16th received in due course of mail. I fully appreciate the fact, that you are not always at leisure to attend to your numerous correspondents, and the long waiting really made your letter the more welcome. I beg to thank you very much for the kind and generous spirit that pervades your line, which at this time comes to me like healing balm on a perturbed spirit. One who reads my unfortunate controversy with the Editor of the Jewish South, might think I am incapable of friendship, and yet ther I have known and respected you ever since I came to Philadelphia now nine years ago! Do you think, that I am capable of being the malicious, spiteful foe this man is trying to represent me? I am surely troubled. I solemnly affirm that I never, directly or indirectly, received a cent pay for my two years work on the J. S. and yet this man gives me the lie and claims he can show he paid me! One of his letters to me explains the way he puts it. When I rebuked him for his
JACOB VOORSANGER,
Box 319.
(2
Houston, Texas, 188
ungenerous spirit on the score that my disinterested,ness deserved better, he answered me in a private letter by adding up the cost of 1st an [?] and portfolio he had presented me with, 2d of entertaining me at his residence whilst on a visit to N. O.! What do you think of that? This to show that I was paid for my labors. And yet I hold in my possession a contract signed by Chas. Wessolowski for the J. S. in which I am promised two hundred dollars per annum for my services, not one cent of which I ever received!
Well, I was am not the first one who receives [Hebrew] [Hebrew] and likely shall not be the last. I go in the country next week to seek a little recreation as the unjust treatment received from this man is really upsetting me. Please write me a line or two and believe me not, I pray, the blackguard this man C. is representing me. Yours sincerely
Jacob Voorsanger - Identifier
- p34b2xq8w
- identifier
- SMBx3FF3_30
Part of Letter from Voorsanger, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Houston, TX; Oct 1882
Voorsanger, Jacob and Morais, Sabato, “Letter from Voorsanger, Jacob to Morais, Sabato. Houston, TX; Oct 1882”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed September 19, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/90736