Letter from M.W. Strause to Isaac Leeser;August 14, 1849Letter from M. N. Strouse of Wilkes-Barre, PA, to Isaac Leeser in Philadelphia, PA, written August 14, 1849. The letter conveys the resolutions passed at a meeting of the Wilkes-Barre Jewish Congregation on August 11, 1849, expressing gratitude for Leeser's kindness and inviting him to the congregation's new synagogue consecration on August 31. A postscript requests Leeser to send a prayer book and Hebrew alphabets, offering to sell additional books on commission.