Autograph Letter Signed to five of the Sephardic communal leaders of Amsterdam, including Seniors David Tikshira da Andrade, David da Silva, and Samuel Moses da Costa. Address panel on verso in French

Concerns the tactics of a number of people who were besmirching Sachli’s reputation, causing him financial loss and distress. He mentions the “Rasha Belais” (apparently Abraham Belais (at that time in London, formerly Chief Rabbi of Nice and Algeria) and the “Listim mezuyan” (the armed highway robber) Atias and the malevolent people of Barbaria (the coastal region of North Africa-Morocco, Algiers, Tunis etc.) who are “liars, drunkards and gluttons” (among other choice epithets). "The gentlemen in Amsterdam should rather rely upon the letters received from Jerusalem which testify to Sachli’s scholarship and upright God-fearing character." Sachli writes that he is presently penniless due to medical expenses. The writer was a scion of a well known scholarly family in Jerusalem, his grandfather R. Yehudah Hakohen was the author of Batei Kehunah. He served as an emissary from Jerusalem to Italy, Morocco, England and France from approximately 1817-1826. Yaari relates that in 1817 he was captured by pirates, who stole all of his possessions including his identification papers from Jerusalem. See Yaari, Sheluchei Eretz Yisrael, p. 28, 710. On Belais and his actions in London, see A.M. Hyamson, The Sephardim of England (1951) pp. 208-9.