Lewis N. Dembitz letter to Mayer Sulzberger, 25 September 1904.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Dembitz, Lewis N. (Lewis Naphtali), 1833-1907, author, correspondent.

Contributor:

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, correspondent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923--Correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Kestenbaum & Company (New York), Auction 80 (March 28, 2019) lot 145.

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 280 x 204 mm.

Production:

Louisville, KY., September 25th, 1904.

Contained In:

contained in : Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923. Collection of Mayer Sulzberger material. 31198068710149

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

American lawyer and author (Sieraków, Poland, 1833 - Louisville, Kentucky 1907); delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention, elected vice-president of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, 1898; uncle of Louis Brandeis.

Summary:

Letter from Lewis N. Dembitz to Judge Mayer Sulzberger, stationery headed "LEWIS N. DEMBITZ, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Room 21, Trust Company Building, Telephone No. 876 Main, Louisville, Ky."; urging Sulzberger to present advance for a work Dembitz was writing to a committee - "my theory of the relations betwee[n] Babylonian Law, Pentateuch and Mishnah", and "comprising among other things my translation of the 'Code'". Letter written in nine lines (in two colors of ink); autograph following letter.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Lewis N. Dembitz letter to Mayer Sulzberger, 25 September 1904. (UPenn CAJS ARC Ms. 25.1.3). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1402120263