A letter by Mendele Mocher Sforim (Shalom Yaakov Abramowitz), handwritten on an undivided postcard. Addressed to Mordechai Ben-Ami (Chaim Mordechai Rabinowitz) in Geneva. Constantinople, 1905. Hebrew and Russian.
In the letter, Mendele Mocher Sforim writes to his friend Ben-Ami: "Today I came here… and tomorrow G-d willing we will travel to your place of residence via Vienna… Please accept my deep gratitude for your dear letter and your great and true love to me. I read your words in tears" (Hebrew).
Beneath his signature, Mendele Mocher Sforim added a short letter in Russian, to Mrs. Ben-Ami [Mordechai Ben-Ami's wife, Chaya (sister of the physician of the settlements and Zionist activist Hillel Yaffe)].
13X9 cm. Good condition. Minor creases to margins. Postmarks. Two pen inscriptions (late).