LIFrancophone added a note to smbx12ff7_12_1r.tif-0 in SMBx12FF7_12 in Sabato Morais Collection, saying “Rabbi Morais's allusion to "the deaf adder" and the quotation "voice of charmers, charming never so wisely" seem to be quotations from the "King James Bible" translation of Psalm 58, verses 4 and 5.”
LIFrancophone added a note to smbx17ff1_1_1v.tif-0 in SMBx17FF1_1 in Sabato Morais Collection, saying “The "J. L. Hackenburg" of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania mentioned in this letter seems to me to probably have been Judah Lazarus Hackenburg -- said by Rabbi Morais's son Henry Samuel Morais (in his 1894-published book The Jews of Philadelphia) to hav...”
LIFrancophone added a note to smbx2ff4_14_2v in SMBx2FF4_14 in Sabato Morais Collection, saying “I wish to note that in Page 1, the signature seems to me to read "Alfredo Provenzal" (with a "z"), although the notation seen in Page 4 has "Provencal" (possibly with the word "Provençal" -- with the "c" pronounced like English-language "s" -- in ...”
LIFrancophone added a note to smbx17ff1_1_1v.tif-0 in SMBx17FF1_1 in Sabato Morais Collection, saying “"A. J. H. Bernal" on this page is a signature -- with much accompanying decoration/flourishes (possibly including Hebrew characters -- including a letter aleph) to its right (a seeming "ladder" design) and below it.”
LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR, saying “As Caroline/"TeaSH" has said, working on this letter has been a "very interesting exercise" for me, too.
Ethan/"LIFrancophone" (who is not certain of the significance of some short horizontal lines which I have seen in both left and right margins...”
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LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR
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LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR, saying “I am about to designate my review of the transcription of Page 3 as "Done" -- and ready for someone else to review.
Ethan/"LIFrancophone".”
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LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR
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LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR
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LIFrancophone added a note to 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR, saying “In the final line of text here, "de toute" seems to me to be written as "detoute" -- but I'm not certain of this (and the words should be understood as "de toute").”
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LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR
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LIFrancophone edited 3 in J. M. P. LeGras letter to the governor, 1781 June 5. in GLR
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