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Subject: Smallpox -- Curaçao

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Letter from Rabbi M. N. Nathan to Isaac Leeser, Kingston, Jamaica, July 5, 1863Letter from Rabbi M. N. Nathan to Isaac Leeser, Kingston, Jamaica, July 5, 1863

This twelve-page letter, dated July 5, 1863, was written by Rabbi M. N. Nathan in Kingston, Jamaica, to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It provides a detailed account of the Curaçao Synagogue in the early 1860s, including observations on its chief rabbi and his work during a smallpox epidemic. Nathan also discusses a potential job offer from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.