(A Jewish prayerbook with sketches. Most words are in curs...)
A Jewish prayerbook with sketches. Most words are in cursive and few are in print. Has some Hebrew.
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Isaac Harby was born on November 9, 1788, in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. He was the son of Solomon Harby, whose father, lapidary to the Emperor of Morocco, fled to England for reasons unknown and there in 1787 married Rebecca, daughter of Meyer Moses. Solomon emigrated to Jamaica in his twenty-first year and thence to Charleston.
Isaac attended Dr. Best’s academy, evinced considerable precocity, and aspired to a literary career. Later he began the study of law in 1805 with the help of Langdon Cheves but dropped it shortly.
After some experience at teaching Isaac Harby opened a school on Edisto Island in 1808, when the death of his father had left the family without support. His next venture was a literary weekly, the Quiver, which soon failed. In 1814 he and a friend bought the Investigator, renamed it the Southern Patriot and Commercial Advertiser, and threw their political support to President Madison. Selling out in 1822, Harby joined the City Gazette and Commercial Daily Advertiser, for which, signing himself Junius, he wrote articles urging the nomination of Andrew Jackson for the presidency.
His celebrity, such as it was, Harby owed to his theatrical criticism. Like his other writing, it is inflated and bedizened in a manner half provincial and half exotic, but it gained unmistakably by his practical acquaintance with the theatre. His first play, Alexander Severus, was written when he was seventeen and was rejected by Alexander Placide of the Charleston Theatre, but two later tragi-comedies, The Gordian Knot, or Causes and Effects (1810) and Alberti (1819), were played and published in Charleston. President Monroe, while sojourning in the city, saw a performance of the latter. Harby’s blank verse is pliant and melodious, and the Gordian Knot has pleasant love scenes, but the two plays, though promising, belong to a tradition even then antiquated and are literary in the derogatory sense.
Harby’s “Anniversary Address, ” A Discourse Delivered in Charleston, South Carolina, on The Twenty-first of November, 1825 (1825), received sympathetic notice in the North American Review for July 1826 and elicited friendly comment from Thomas Jefferson and Edward Livingston.
In June 1828, after the death of his wife, Harby removed to New York, hoping to benefit by the change of scene and wider opportunities. He opened a school on Howard Street and made a favorable impression with his theatrical criticism in the Evening Post, but in December he died unexpectedly, leaving his sister and his children destitute. Benefit performances were announced for them at the Park and Bowery theatres.
(A Jewish prayerbook with sketches. Most words are in curs...)
Harby married Rachel Mordecai of Savannah.
