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A WOMAN OF AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENT!

HENRIETTA SZOLD (born Baltimore 1860) daughter of a rabbi, she grew up in a home active in the movement for the liberation of the American negro. With the influx of Jewish immigration it became the hospice for newcomers. She credited as "Founder of Hadassah" and also long fulfilled a major role in the J.P.S. Single page letter on letterhead of the J.P.S./Phila. penned by Miss Szold in her distinctive, tiny, easily read, hand home in Baltimore, Jan. 28, 1891 to president of the J.P.S., the noted Judge Mayer Sulzberger. She reports: "Mr. Bernheimer [writer for Phila. newspapers and the "Jewish Exponent;" and Business Sec'y of J.P.S.]…writes me that the President of [J.P.S.] thinks Mr. Iliowizc's book ought to be published at once…have begun to [read] manuscript; hope to have it ready for printer [soon]"…and asks if she should "…put the manuscript into shape." Also writes: "Dr. Bloch sent in [part] of his 'Memoirs of Graetz'…the society [should] congratulate itself upon choice of a biographer…Davidson accepted terms offered by the committee…" Exc.+. ACCOMPANIED BY single page, penned letter written and signed by CHARLES S. BERNHEIMER on letterhead of J.P.S. Jan. 13, 1897 to Sulzberger with accounting of: "…the agreement with MacMillan for its edition of [Zangwill's] 'Children of the Ghetto'" with royalties due and number of copies sold. (Exc.) PLUS THIRD LETTER. Single page, typed, July 29, 1906 on letterhead "AMERICAN JEWISH YEARBOOK/THE J.P.S. EDITOR HENRIETTA SZOLD, NY." To noted Louis E. Levy with fine autograph signature "HENRIETTA SZOLD." Writes she had earlier requested of him a statement of "Jewish immigration through Port of Phila"…1905-1906 for use in J.P.S. annually published "Jewish yearbook"…"I write again and urge you to give your me assistance…sorry to give you this trouble…" Few small light stains, not affecting or obscuring any wording. The three letters with lengthy bio sketch of Henrietta and her many accomplishments

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