By the Grace of G‑d 20th of Tammuz, 5724 Brooklyn, N.Y.

Greeting and Blessing:

I received your letters of June 26th, and 22nd, as well as your previous letters.

I was pleased to read that you were present at the celebration of Yud-Beis Tammuz in London, where you were also the guest speaker. I trust that you will agree with me, and this is quite obvious to me, that your presence in London does not relieve you from being present at a Yud-Beis Tammuz celebration in Manchester. And although, of course, you cannot be in two places at the same time, there are two days, i.e. 48 hours, in which to celebrate the auspicious days of 12th-13th of Tammuz. Surely, when G‑d granted the opportunity to transform an ordinary weekday into a Yom-Tovdic day and a day of Segulo, one should take advantage of it, particularly a public figure, especially a prominent one, like yourself, whose first loyalty must be to his own community where he is a leader and pace-setter.

You do not mention anything about the outcome of the negotiations with the Director of the bank. I trust that this matter has eventually been resolved in a satisfactory manner.

With regard to the wedding arrangements,¹ I do not understand at all the logic of Mr. ... going to solicit the advice of a Dayan and then ignoring it and being Broiges². At any rate it is not my business to complicate relations between one Jew and another, especially as it is of no practical consequence. I am certain that the Chuppah and the wedding dinner will [be] arranged and take place with a Mechitzo and with due dignity and splendor*, in a happy and auspicious hour. And if it is your Zechus and that of Mrs. Jaffe to arrange this (if the Machutonim will not change their mind in the interim), may G‑d grant that you should have the Zechus to celebrate many Simchas without, of course, any of the present complications.

I am only surprised a little that you should inquire in your letter if I am in agreement with you in regard to your decision to arrange the wedding dinner, etc., for there can be no question about it at all.

I am also pleased about another thing, namely that you saw at once that the geruss³ which I asked to convey to Dayan Weiss was well worth the trouble of conveying it to him, although at the time I noticed that you were not particularly enthusiastic about it. Needless to say, not being a prophet, I had not foreseen that there would be an immediate reward, but I mention this to emphasize that when one does something good which is connected with Ahavas Yisroel, the reward is very often instantaneous.

With a blessing for happy tidings in regard to all the above, and with joy and gladness of heart,

M. Schneerson