Letter from Phineas Moses to Isaac Leeser;December 10, 1857 Letter from Phineas Moses to Isaac Leeser, written in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 10, 1857. Moses, a trustee, comments on a statement in Leeser's *Occident* regarding the compensation of a congregational reader and teacher. He notes that the reader also serves as teacher, receiving five hundred dollars per annum and rooms in the synagogue basement, contradicting the *Occident*'s account.