Autograph letter signed in English from Moses Lindo to Rabbi Isaac Leeser of Philadelphia

(AMERICAN JUDAICA)

St. ?, (West Indies)?

11th April 1858

Brown ink on paper

The primary object of the letter is to answer by the “very first vessel,” the question of whether an Israelite may wed a Catholic woman, “she being disposed to embrace the Jewish faith....[with a] voluntary desire...What are the forms to constitute her a Jewess and may a Hebrew here perform the act...?”