Letter by Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik - Khislavichi, 1913

Long letter (2 pages), handwritten and signed by Rabbi "Moshe Soloveitchik Av Beit Din of Khislavichi, son of R' Chaim HaLevi Av Beit Din of Brisk". Khislavichi, 1913.
Sent to Jerusalem to Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, regarding an agunah, whose husband came to Eretz Israel and was about to violate the "ban of Rabbeinu Gershom" and marry another woman without divorcing his first wife.
Rabbi Moshe Soloveitchik (1879-Shvat 1941), eldest son of Rabbi Chaim of Brisk and elder brother of Rabbi Yitzchak Ze'ev of Brisk. Son in law of Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein Av Beit Din of Pruzhany. An exceptional Torah scholar, renowned for his amazing deep discourses, he educated thousands of disciples in Europe and the USA. In 1910, he was appointed Rabbi of Raseiniai succeeding Rabbi Alexander Moshe Lapidot and later established a yeshiva in the city at the initiative of the Saba of Slabodka. In 1913, he relocated to serve as Rabbi of Khislavichi. In 1929, he immigrated to the US to head the Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan Yeshiva succeeding the "Iluy of Molchad".
2 pages, 20.5 cm. 37 handwritten lines. Good-fair condition, torn filing holes.
About the content of this letter, see the letter by Rabbi Chaim Berlin to Rabbi A.Y. Kook in Tikun Olam - Kevutzat Michtavim, Jerusalem, 1975, Letter 7, pp. 10-11.