A collection of letters that were sent to the Committee of the Hebrew Gymnasium in Jaffa, most addressed to Ben Tzion Mosinson, Menachem Shanken, Dr. Yehuda Leib Matman-Cohen and Chaim Bograshov, the gymnasium's founders. From 1898 continuing into the 20th century, most of the letters are from 1905-1910.
The letters address various issues such as requests to be accepted as students or teachers at the gymnasium, recommendations, various greetings, conscription "to work in the Ottoman army", etc. The letters were sent from all over the Jewish world: Vienna, Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Minsk, Odessa, Alexandria, Rusguk (Bulgaria) and other places. In one of the letters, the sender requests: "I request your honor to answer me if I can come to study in the gymnasium without the financial means necessary for this… this is the last hope of my life! … I apply to the honored masters to have compassion on a poor young man who yearns for knowledge, who perhaps – who knows – may yield much for our nation, our land, our language and our literature!"
Amongst the people who wrote letters: Yehoshua Radler Feldman (Rabbi Binyamin), Yisrael HaLevi Teller, Menachem Ussishkin, Sirkin, A.A. Kabak, Mordechai ben Hillel HaCohen, Zelig Weizmann (Chaim Weizmann's brother), Avraham Aldema, Zalman Epstein and others. A total of c. 50 letters and documents, of varied size and condition. An important and fascinating collection from the beginning of the first high school in the world where classes were taught in Hebrew, One of the most important educational institutes in the history of Jews in their land.