The following is from an old issue of
Hed HaMizrach and has not been republished to the best my knowledge. I did not have time to try to identify all the people and issues referred to in the letters. For instance, he says רק אל הגאון מווירצבורג דראוי לגלות לו סוד I assume that implies that R
Yosef Dov
Bamberger was on the side of R
Tzvi Hirsch. The R'
Auerbach referred to is R Meir
Auerbach of Jerusalem who opposed the plan because of possible
repercussions from the Sultan and because of the difficult
Halachic issues that farming the land would raise. I do not know what the כתבים נגד הגאון מאלטונא refers to. I would assume that this refers to R
Yaakov Ettlinger who is the last person worthy of the
totle but I did not find anything
Rebbetzin Bleich's book on
Ettlinger that this could be referring to.

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