Eight letters from Sir Moses Montefiore, addressed to heads of the Jerusalem community, Ashkenazic and Sephardic rabbis and kollel officials, regarding accounts of distribution and transfer of funds sent from abroad for the benefit of the poor of Eretz Israel. London and Ramsgate, 1856-1884.

Most letters on official stationery, in scribal writing, signed by Montefiore (in Hebrew, in large square letters, and in English). One letter also signed by his secretary Eliezer HaLevi.

The recipients include: Chief Rabbi Avraham Ashkenazi, R. David son of Shimon (Rav Devash), R. Refael Meir Panigel (later Rishon LeTzion), R. Moshe Benveniste, the philanthropists Shlomo Amzalag and Yaakov Valero, R. Mordechai Meir Rabinson (a founder of the Etz Chaim yeshiva and official of the Warsaw kollel), R. David Tevya of Lomza (official of the Warsaw kollel), R. Yochanan Hirsch Schlank (disciple of the Chatam Sofer and official of the Dutch and German kollel, R. Meir son of R. Asher of Anykščiai (official of the Vilna kollel), R. Elazar Natan Shapiro (progenitor of the Kahana Shapiro family, and a leader of the Chassidic kollel in Jerusalem), R. Yonah Leib Mendelson (disciple of the Chatam Sofer and a founder of the Hungarian kollel), R. Ze'ev HaKohen of Pinsk (a leader of the Volhynia kollel), R. Yaakov Yehudah Leib Löwy (official of the Warsaw kollel), R. Yitzchak Eizik Wander (official of the Vilna kollel), R. Moshe Elazar Dan Ralbag (disciple and nephew of R. Yehoshua Leib Diskin, dean of the Etz Chaim yeshiva and head of the Perushim-Belarusian kollel), R. Meir son of R. Bentzion Lutziner of Minsk.

[8] leaves. Approx. 19-27 cm. Overall good condition. Stains and minor defects.