Yiddish
Bialystok, October 10, 1890
Dearest uncle Yosef Stein and dearest
aunt Esther Mine with your two dear sons, shall live!
Just coming on behalf of my mother, shall live, to inform you about the engagement of our Nokhen, shall live, which took place last week,
with Miss Maiersohn!
Her family is of very noble descent, they are very gallant people,
they give a dowry of 4000 rub(el)!
God shall grant, that it will be with luck!
And (hopefully), we will hear the same news
from your place, soon!
Please inform us, how you are and
how's business.
The Lord may give, that we shall only hear good things from one another!
They sent us
samples of tobacco from Toshkent (Taschkent) and I showed it the
factories at my place.
Seems, that it's worth it! Therefore I will send you
the samples tomorrow: Two different sorts!
No 1 will cost up to Bialystok 9- 10 rub the pud (1)
and No 2 will cost up to Bialystok ____
5 or 6 rub the pud.
Maybe you can do business with it!
Stay healthy and happy, that's the cordial wish
of your true niece
Shifra Margolis
1)„Pood“, pud= old unit of mass, equal to 40 funt, Russianpound
translated by Beate Schutzman Krebs