Tzvi Hirsch Masliansky (1856-1943), Zionist activist and "National Preacher" in America. The letter is a response to Mr. Y. C. Cohen Lask of London, who asked him to appoint "agents" for "The Jew" journal (edited by Yitzchak Sovlasky) in America. Masliansky expresses his despair of the state of the Hebrew language in America: "Your request has caused me a painful laughג€¦ how strange and wondrous this idea is to a man who knows about Jewish life in America and especially their attitude to the language of the past, this is a sign that you do not know anything about the fall of our language in the Land of Columbusג€¦ Can you believe that 1000 copies of HaYitzhari books are rolling around the roof of my home and nobody is interested in taking them for freeג€¦". Additional issues. Official stationery. Leaf 27 cm, written on both sides. Good condition, few stains, wear to margins and folding marks.