Discovery about the First Monies Being Sent from London to Kollel Chassidim by Montefiore's Efforts, Via those ...

Discovery about the First Monies Being Sent from London to Kollel Chassidim by Montefiore's Efforts, Via those Appointed by Kollel Lita. 1851
The oldest kollel was "Kollel Chassidim," which was also called "Kollel Vohlin," and occasionally also "Kollel Russia." It started in Tiberias and continued in Safed and then in Jerusalem. All the Chassidim who ascended to the Land with Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk joined this kollel at first, without geographic differentiation. However, processes of division by geographic region of origin began, then these association patterns gradually narrowed and the kollels split and increased in number.
Until c. 1860, most Chassidim who were born in the areas of the "Pale of Settlement," Kiev, Vohlin and Podolia, the regions of New Russia, Serbia and the principalities of the Danube (and Lachia and Moldavia) registered with Kollel Volhin. Kollel Volhin in Safed was already founded in 1796, and the kollel in Jerusalem only in 1841, with the move of the Beck family from Safed and the establishment of the Chassidic community in Jerusalem. Another stage in the split of Kollel Volhin in Jerusalem was around 1955, with the establishment of Kollel Reisin, which dealt with distributing monies to Chassidim of White Russian and Lithuanian descent. The kollel was centered in Tiberias and the quality of the relationship with Kollel Vohlin is not clear.
This document attests to a respectable donation from the estate of philanthropist Aryeh Leib Shaul ... Segal? of London for Kollel Chassidim in 1851. The donation was transferred to the leaders of the Perushim kollel: Rabbi Yeshayah Bardaki and Rabbi Shmuel Salant, and they transferred it to the heads of the Volhin kollel. However, they were to transfer part of the donation to other people as well, who were not part of the Perushim society, and had not yet established their own kollels - the people of Poland and ֳ–sterreich. Apparently, Rabbi Shmuel Salant added this request: "Transfer to the people of Warsaw and ֳ–sterreich, to be given directly into their hands." With a stamp from Kollel Chassidim: "Kehal Chassidim Ashkenazim" - a very rare stamp. Iyar 1851.
This document recalls the friction between the various groups in Jerusalem at the beginning of the founding of the settlement there.
[1] leaf paper. 22x14 cm. Fine condition. Tiny holes.