MOSES MONTEFIORE | two letters signed, 1872-74

MONTEFIORE, SIR MOSES

TWO LETTERS:

i) letter signed, to E.A. Davidson, with autograph revisions, thanking him for his gift of books to Judith Lady Montefiore College ("...I feel confident that they must afford very valuable aids to the training of the rising generation..."), 2 pages, 8vo, embossed mourning stationery, East Cliff Lodge, Ramsgate, 18 February 1872

ii) autograph letter signed, to two Rabbis in Jerusalem, including Taakov Yehuda Leib Levin, on a donation from the Synagogue in Königsberg, in Hebrew, 1 page, 4to, headed stationery, numbered 7521, 31 March 1874

Sir Moses Haim Montefiore (1784-1885) made a fortune on the stock exchange, and gave his later life to the support of Jewish communal and religious affairs in Britain and around the world - in the process becoming a prominent and popular public figure in Victorian Britain.

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