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thing that would be a sufficient return for those peculiar to the 
South, I should solicit you to send me specimens—Perhaps you 
may know some other person, who may be more profited by it, 
willing to commence an exchange of plants with me. I should be 
greatly obliged to you for your Monotropsis if you have specimens 
to spare. 
Please to let me hear from you soon, & 
Believe me to be 
Your obedt. & humbl Servt. 
JoHN TORREY 
Revo. L. D. SCHWEINITZ 
P.S. March 14th 1820 
Owing to adverse causes, I have been unable to forward 
the box before this,—I have now put it into way by which I hope 
it will reach you in good season— 
Please to let me know whether you wish specimens in any of 
the other departments of Botany— 
Oe 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
SALEM N.C. STOKES COUNTY 
June 24th, 1820 
JouN Torrey Esgr. New York 
Honored Sir 
You can scarcely form an idea of the agreeable surprise I ex- 
perienced a few days ago on the unexpected arrival of the Box 
with fungi &c. which you have done me the honor to address to me. 
Opportunities for scientifical correspondence—more especially in a - 
province of Natural History so utterly disregarded by most 
persons as are the Fungi, offer so rarely that I cannot express 
sufficiently the pleasure your kind letter gave me—nor pretend to 
thank you as I ought for the kind offers it contains. I embrace 
them with the utmost joy & hasten to assure you thereof by these 
lines, begging as a great favor the continuance of your corre- 
spondence. I should have immediately reloaded the box with 
specimens of Fungi &c. & sent it on to you—if I did not think it 
better first to comunicate to you what I can supply you with in 
order to avoid unnecessary things being sent. I shall therefore 
proceed in the first place to explain the different Lists contained 
in the inclosed sheet. 
