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Title

Tobias I. Tobias letter books

Authors

• Tobias I. Tobias 1786-1861
• T. I. Tobias & Co. (Firm)
• David Judah & Co. (Firm)

Other related names

• Judah, David, 1789-1866, addressee
• Samuell, Simpson, addressee
• Hooper, Benjamin J, addressee
• Tobias, Samuel Isaac, died 1832, addressee
• Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939-, donor
• Kaplan, Deanne, donor

Call number

MS 56, Codex 007.1
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania e| 420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, Library at the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9977401352603681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1064010200
• https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p39g5gm2b https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35q4rs8k https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p31z4205q

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania e| 420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206

Origin

Date

1815-1830

Summary

Three volumes comprising outgoing correspondence from Tobias I. Tobias while he was living in London, England. The letters are addressed to family members, friends, and business associates spanning the years from 1815 to 1830. Volume 1 contains correspondence dated from 1815 to 1816. The letters were chiefly to his brother Samuel, who was living in New York and regarded merchandise, invoices, debts, vendors, and family news. Several letters were also written to Simpson Samuell, probably Tobias's lawyer, who handled bills, payments, and monetary exchanges. Volume 2 comprises letters dated from 1816 to 1817 and were written to various vendors. During this time Tobias was living in New York. He wrote many letters to John Walton, who sent Tobias consignments; N. Hart concerning purchases; and A . J. Woolf. The correspondence also concerned payments due and bills of exhchange. Volume 3 contains letters from Tobias spanning the years from May 5, 1825 to October 30, 1830. The letters regard the Tobias's business in New York. The majority of the correspondence in this volume is with David Judah, an auctioneer living in Richmond, Virginia, concerning David Judah & Company. Tobias and Edward Pollack were partners in the company. The letters concerned payments to vendors, types of merchandise sold, and Tobias's consignments to David Judah. Eventually, Judah's failure to pay his portion of the accounts as described in the correspondence led to Tobias's poverty, arrest, and final dissolution of the company in 1828. Correspondence from Tobias with Manuel Judah, Benjamin J. Hooper, and Kennedy & Duchamp of New Orleans are also included. There are also letters concerning Samuel I. Tobias who traveled to Richmond to aide Judah with the account books. The merchandise Tobias mentions throughout the letter books is blankets, boots, cloth, cordage, cotton, dolls, jewelry, razor cases, shoes, and watches from vendors in England, Nova Scotia, and the United States. The last page in the volume has a chart of prices for cotton, flannel, and wool cloths; and freight shipment costs and tariffs. The leaves at the beginning of Volume 3 are alphabetical tabs. There are 12 letters on letterpress paper and one leaf of blotter paper laid in Volume 1. There are 6 leaves of letters on letterpress paper laid in Volume 2. There are two clippings regarding freight charges laid in Volume 3. Volumes 1-3 have detached covers with some loose leaves. Volume 3 has a cracked spine.

Extent

3 volumes +

Provenance

• Purchased for the Penn Libraries 2016 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan (Collectify accession no. Vol. 1, 2017.11.10.00001; Vol. 2, 2017.11.10.00002; Vol. 3, 2017.11.13.00010).
   

Subjects topical

• Jewish merchants--New York (State)--New York--19th century
• Jewish merchants--England--London--19th century
• Jews--United States--History--19th century
• Jews
• History
• Jewish merchants
• United States
• England--London
• New York (State)--New York

Genres

• Codices (bound manuscripts)
• Letter books
• Correspondence
• Manuscripts, American--19th century
• Manuscripts, English--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• Front cover — Letter Book, August 2, 1815
• fol. Loose leaf 1, 1r — Letter, London, 29 August 1815
• Loose leaf 4 recto — Letter, London, Dec. 9, 1815
• Loose leaf 5 recto — Letter, London, Aug. 16, 1815
• Loose leaf 6 recto — Letter, London, Sept. 2, 1815
• fol. 1r — London, 2 August, 1815