Dear Mr. Lipstadt: It was a pleasure receiving your letter informing me of potential candidates for membership at The Jewish Center, as well as your post-script concerning Center activities during the summer, and the report from your daughter aboard the SS Shalom. If this letter is delayed to you, it is because I am dictating here at camp, and then sending it into the city for typing by my secretary, who is away on vacation until the beginning of August. Immediately after this letter I am dictating the two notes to the Schwalbe’s and Doft's.Please convey my warmest personal regards to Mrs. Lipstadt and when you write to your children please remember us to them. Naturally, Mrs. Lamm and the children send their affectionate regards.Cordially yours,Rabbi Norman LammNL/le

Dear Friends: On the premise that "better late than never," I would like to put into words my warmest wishes to you on your recent celebration of your Silver Anniversary. The first time I came into contact with the Lipstadts was one that all of us, I suppose, prefer not to remember – when Mrs. Lipstadt called me from Far Rockaway to visit her critically ill husband in the hospital. When I say that we all prefer not to remember that incident, I refer to the medical circumstances only. But the attitudes of the both of you, revealed to me so poignantly and dramatically, will always remain with me as a shining example of courage and devotion. I am so very pleased, therefore, that a number of years later my wife and I can join the two of you and your children in this delightfully happy occasion of your twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Because I feel close to you, I know that any hyperbole on my part would just diminish the genuineness of my expression to you. Extravagance is unnecessary amongst close friends. You know how much my wife and I cherish your friendship, and we hope that the Almighty will grant our families many, many years of undisturbed health and happiness to enjoy each other's company and the company of our children and to strive for the realization of those dreams and visions which unite us at the Center and in the Torah community throughout the world.Cordially yours, Rabbi Norman Lamm

Dear Sir: It has been suggested to me that I write you about the following matter. My husband, [redacted] passed away unexpectedly at the age of fifty, on February 19th, 1960. Due to the suddenness of the situation, he was buried at Riverside Cemetery in Lodi, New Jersey. At the time, I was not aware that the cemetery was Orthodox. My husband was not a follower of the Orthodox Jewish religion, nor was he buried in an Orthodox ceremony. My husband’s older brother, with whom he was very close, was supposed to be buried in Riverside Cemetery also, but he now resides in Florida and has made plans to be buried in that state. My son also plans to move his family South at a later date. Consequently, I have started thinking about moving South also. Under the circumstances, I would like to create a family plot there now and inter my husband, but I have been told that this cannot be done because there would be no member of the family buried there. I have been assured that when someone in the “Palace” family dies, it will be possible to move my husband.Naturally, I am very concerned as I do not want in any event to be separated from my husband. I am now in my late sixties and quite upset by this matter, and it is beginning to affect my health.I am appealing to you in hopes that you will be able to write me a letter giving me, my son, or daughter permission to move my husband in the event of my, my son’s, or daughter’s demise. This would give me the assurance that I need to ease my mind.My husband’s last words to me were to take care of myself and see that everything was done as I wished. I hope you will be able to assist me in this task.Sincerely yours, [redacted]