Autograph Letter Signed by Henrietta Szold – Baltimore, 1896 – An Order of Maps for the English Edition of "History ...

Autograph Letter Signed by Henrietta Szold – Baltimore, 1896 – An Order of Maps for the English Edition of "History of the Jews"
An interesting letter handwritten and signed by Henrietta Szold. Addressed to Meir Sulzberger, chairman of the Jewish Publication Society. Baltimore, April 16, 1896. English.
In 1888, Henrietta Szold was hired as a secretary of the Jewish Publication Society. Despite her official position, Szold also worked in translating, editing and proofreading and in fact served as the chief editor of the publication. One of the important books Szold dealt with was the English translation of Heinrich Graetz's book, "History of the Jews", which was considered the flagship of the publication. This letter documents Szold's deep involvement in preparing the book and deals with her search for maps suitable for illustrating it.
Szold writes: "Professor George Adam Smith arranged to see me this morning, and the result of the conversation is this: He will be thinking about the matter of our maps, and before he leaves Baltimore […] he will tell me what ones in his opinion are proper for the illustration of Graetz. Through his cartographer, Mr. Barholomew of Edinburgh, he will furnish us with his map of the Semitic world and with the two Palestinian maps […] The extra-Palestinian maps he will not undertake, but he thinks that Mr. Bartholomew can be trusted to adapt from the recent German maps […] the Semitic World map also could be adapted to our purposes".
[1] folded leaf (two written pages). Approx. 17.5 cm. Good condition. Horizontal fold line.