Collection of letters to Rabbi Meir Berlin (Bar-Ilan), youngest child of the Netziv of Volozhin and among the leaders of the "Mizrachi" movement (1880-1949):
Letters include: Draft of letter of Rabbinical ordination, in handwriting of his older brother, the Ga’on Rabbi Chaim Berlin (1832-1913). The draft is unsigned and was written upon envelope paper which was sent to “Rabbi Chaim Berlin”. [According to the Gematria at the end of the ordination letter “Yevarechecha HaShem ViChuneka”, the letter was written in 1909, when Rabbi Chaim was 77 and his younger brother was 29].
* Two letters by Rabbi Yisrael Kaplan Av Beit Din of Srednik (1878-1936, Otzar HaRabbanim 12055). * Letter from Volozhin from 1893, to Rabbi Ya’akov Alshkovski [Rabbi in Kiev, grandson of Rabbi Chaim Berlin], by grandson of the Netziv, who relates rumors circulating in Volozhin regarding the acceptance of the Rebbe [his grandfather, the Netziv] to the Rabbinate of the city of Suwalki. * Three additional letters whose writers’ names were cut off [apparently, by Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan himself]. * Lists of Chiddushei Torah in handwriting of Rabbi Meir Berlin.
7 letters and 3 leaves of lists of Divrei Torah. Various sizes and conditions.