Abraham Cahan letter to Mayer Sulzberger, 3 April 1901.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Cahan, Abraham, 1860-1951, author, correspondent.

Contributor:

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923, correspondent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sulzberger, Mayer, 1843-1923--Correspondence.

Sulzberger, Mayer.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

1 leaf : paper ; 28 x 21 cm.

Production:

New York, April 3, [1901].

Contained In:

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

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Jewish-American socialist, fiction author and novelist, and one of the founders of the Forverts (Jewish Daily Forward).

Summary:

Letter from Abraham Cahan to Judge Mayer Sulzberger (addressed from 29 Park Row, New York, on the stationary of The Commercial Advertiser, editorial department); Cahan writes to Sulzberger concerning a romance novel he had in mind to write "of life in the fast-dwindling world of Talmudic Judaism", and the story was to take place in New York and Russia. Letter written in 19 lines; autograph below text.

Notes:

Title supplied by cataloger.

Cited as:

Abraham Cahan letter to Mayer Sulzberger, 3 April 1901. (UPenn CAJS ARC Ms. 25.1.6). Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1404461167