Letter from Dr. Apfel Congratulating R. Lamm on His Selection for West Side Jewish Center Pulpit (1952)
My Dear Rabbi Lamm, I have your letter of the 11th of November, last, and it made me very happy to hear that you have arrived. Realizing as I do what hard work your success was built upon. Your dear parents are to be congratulated for having the good fortune to see their Norman a Rabbi of an important Jewish Center. Unfortunately for me that I cannot join your other friends on Sunday the 21st of the month, at the Installation. You see my dear Norman, we live on the north shore, which entails a distance of about 100 miles driving. I would, however, wish to meet you some times soon on an afternoon, when we could even take lunch and talk. If you will be kind enough to write me soon after your installation we will arrange the best time suitable for both of us. I wish for you a fruitful and healthy life in your chosen work. Please give my very best to your lovely parents. Please to express to then my deep appreciation for their kind thoughts of me, after these many years.Please extend my sincerest greetings to the officers of the West Side Jewish Renter and all that is best for your successful career.I am yours as ever,Harry Apfel, M.D.