1921] Weather by, — Barratt, Torrey and Schweinitz 301 



Bethlehem;" I read it "Saw Mr. Schweinitz at Bethlehem." The 

 meeting, it seems, actually took place at New York early in October, 

 1825. Barratt was there on his way back to Philipstown after a 

 visit to Middletown. Schweinitz had, no doubt, just reached New 

 YcK'k on his return from Europe. They met, Barratt says, at the 

 Moravian Church where "Mr. Schweinitz had been preaching that 

 evening." He adds that "Dr. Torrey was introduced at the same 

 time" and that he (Barratt) "afterwards went up the North River 

 in company with Mr. Schweinitz." 



I see no obvious explanation of the contradiction between Bar- 

 ratt's explicit statement that Torrey and Schweinitz met in October, 

 1825, and the very plain implication of Torrey's letter that they 

 did not. There is, however, nothing to show wheu Barratt's memo- 

 randa were written down: if long after the event, he may have 

 confused two occasions in memory. Schweinitz did go up the North 

 River to visit Torrey at West Point in March, 1827; it is just pos- 

 sible that Barratt was along at that time, though so far as I know, 

 there is no evidence to that effect. Unless we can suppose some 

 such slip of memory on his part, the contradiction must remain, at 

 least for the present, unexplained. — C. A. Weatherby, East Hart- 

 ford, Connecticut. 



Vol. 23, no. 275, including pages 24-7 to 278 and plate 133, was issued 27 

 February, 1922. 



