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Object 2. Letter from Louis Loewe to his Sisters

London, 10 September 1839

Description:

It is not certain when Louis' mother died; Raphael Loewe speculated it must have happened on a Sunday immediately following the festival of Passover in one of the following years: 1836, 1840, 1842, 1843, but he favoured 1840. None of Louis Loewe's extant letters, dated from 1838 till 1842, of which photocopies are preserved in the Raphael Loewe Archives, is addressed to Gittel Ha-Levi. All letters are written to Louis' sisters and sent from the following locations: Malta (1839), Derr (capital of Nubia, 1839), Ancona (1839), London (1839), Alexandria (1840), Syra (1840), Constantinople (1840), Smyrna (1840), London (1841), and Liegnitz (1842).

In the exhibited letter (London, 1839), translated into English with the help of Sabine Arndt, Louis writes upon returning from his academic travels in Africa and the Middle East:

Dear Sisters,
Thank God I arrived here last Friday, half past four in the afternoon, and I live again in the same house as I used to live in. I am writing this only so that you do not worry. Tomorrow, God willing, I will send you money so that you will get it with the next mail. I cannot write much because I still have a long way to the post office.
Your brother, Eliezer Loewe.
Write to our dear sister Rachel that I will write to her tomorrow, if God wants me to.

Credits: Leopold Muller Memorial Library, Raphael Loewe Archive, shelfmark: ALouis 1