| Description | Letters to Gaster from the solicitor Adolphus Tooth, of the firm A. & G. Tooth, on a range of business and personal matters. Subjects include the proposed sale of Gaster's Hebrew and Samaritan manuscript collection to Mr Oko (see also Lewis, M. for Oko's letter to Gaster about this offer); Gaster's retirement from the post of Haham; the purchase of Gaster's house, and the subsequent rental of its stables to Mrs Rosetta Israel, as well as the rental of the garage to Mr G. Thornton Norris; a case of copyright infringment regarding the publication of one of Gaster's lectures in the Jewish Chronicle; the West End Chesed V'Ameth Burial Society; Gaster's will; the death of Jacob Moser; the case of Moses Steinberg; the divorce case of Mrs Florence Meyer; the adoption of the child Samuel Eli Assael by Mr and Mrs H. Cohen. Includes some correspondence signed by Gerald Tooth, Adolphus' son and partner in the firm. |