Letter handwritten and signed by Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman, to Rabbi Eliezer Silver, NY, [1939].
Regarding the delivery of money from the General Collection for Yeshivot, for the Baranovich kollel. He also mentions the delivery of money by Rabbi Chaim Ozer. At the end of the letter, he writes of his plans to return to Europe before Pesach.
Official stationary with a picture of the Baranovich Yeshiva building [and the address of the yeshiva office in New York]. 28 cm. Approx. 14 handwritten lines. Good condition. Folding marks and stains.
Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman stayed in New York to raise funds for his yeshiva in 1938-1939. (See Ohr Elchanan, Vol. 2, in the chapter about his journey to America, pages 173-217) – The end of the letter indicates that it was written in the winter of 1939, towards the end of Rabbi Elchanan's stay in the USA.