Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Chatam Sofer - Pressburg, Tammuz 1839

Letter Handwritten and Signed by the Chatam Sofer - Pressburg, Tammuz 1839
Letter (14 lines) handwritten by R. Moshe Sofer - the Chatam Sofer, with his signature: "Moshe Sofer of Frankfurt am Main". Pressburg (Bratislava), Tammuz 1839.
Addressed to R. Tzvi Hirsch Lehren in Amsterdam, founder and director of the Pekidim and Amarkalim, addressing him with great reverence: "The outstanding rabbi, the prominent Tzaddik… R. Tzvi Hirsch".
The Chatam Sofer discusses the transfer of the dowry of his disciple, the groom Yochanan Hirsch Schlank, who immigrated to Eretz Israel. Further in the letter, he mentions tefillin which were sent to Regensburg and did not reach their destination. Following his signature, the Chatam Sofer added approx. 6 lines, with regards to some of his disciples and friends, some of them associates of the recipient of the letter (the brothers of R. Tzvi Hirsch - R. Akiva and R. Meir, and the latter's son "my disciple the student" Moshe).
This letter is from the final months of the Chatam Sofer's life (he passed away in Tishrei 1839). This letter is presumably unknown, and was not yet published. The book HaChatam Sofer VeTalmidav does not mention a student by the name of Moshe, from the family of R. Meir Lehren of Amsterdam.
The student mentioned in this letter, R. Yochanan Tzvi Hirsch Schlank (1815-1884), was one of the cherished disciples of the Chatam Sofer (in this letter he refers to him as "my outstanding disciple"). Following his betrothal in 1838 with the daughter of R. David Tevele Berlin (son of R. Shlomo Hirschell Rabbi of London), he immigrated to Eretz Israel together with his father-in-law and settled in Jerusalem. He was one of the founders of Kollel Holland-Deutschland, a founder and director of Torah and charity institutions in Jerusalem, and a founder of the Etz Chaim yeshiva.
His father, R. Mordechai Schlank of Amsterdam, who is referred to in this letter as "my friend, the great luminary R. Mordechai Schlank", was born in 1773 in Schönlanke (Trzcianka). He was the disciple of R. Akiva Eger in Posen. In 1816-1832, he lived in Pressburg and was an associate ("the right hand") of the Chatam Sofer. In 1832, he moved to Amsterdam, and disseminated Torah in the Beit Midrash of R. Tzvi Hirsch Lehren. Near the end of his life, he immigrated to Jerusalem, where he passed away in 1861.
[1] double leaf. 24 cm. High-quality paper. 14 autograph lines. Good condition. Folding marks. Address, postmarks and remnants of the Chatam Sofer's wax seal, inscribed: "Moshe son of R. Shmuel Sofer of Frankfurt am Main - M.S.".