158 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
yet, ignorant what your package for me contains, though it will 
doubtless be very interesting I thank you in advance. 
I shall write you at greater 
length by the post, as I.must here close for want of time 
I remain Dear Sir Your much 
obliged, & very humble servt 
Rev. Mr SCHWEINITZ : JoHN TORREY 
If I have time this morning when I get to town I will put up 
for you the work of Fries on Fungi [23] which I beg you to return 
in a month. 
TORREY TO SCHWEINITZ 
NEw York, May 3rd, 1822 
Dear Sir 
The last letter which I have received from you is dated Feby. 
25. It unaccountably was more than a month in reaching me. 
I should have answered it before had I not had some hopes of 
hearing from you on the subject of a package of plants sent 
you by the hands of a Swedish gentleman a few weeks since. 
But it [is] now quite time I acknowledged the great obligation I 
am under to you for the catalogue containing the results of your 
examination of my-specimens. You must not get out of patience if 
I should trouble you three or four times yet this season. There is 
no person in this country but yourself with whom I can correspond 
on the subject of Cryptogamia & as you have devoted yourself 
more exclusively to the Fungi, I shall pay the greatest share of my 
attention to some other branch—probably the mosses. So that 
my opinion may one of these days have some little weight. You 
must therefore bear with me, in the hope of my being at some 
future time of some use in the way of consultation. I need much 
assistance from such a veteran in science as yourself, for when I 
work too long alone I begin to get discouraged. I hope the pack- 
age I sent by the Swedish gentleman (I forget his name Lil—— 
something [Lilienkron]) reached you safely & that you will soon 
have time to examine its contents. I have now some more speci- 
mens ready, a few of which are very rare to me. They shall be 
sent by the first opportunity. I would rather not send by the stage 
as the men connected with it seem to me very disobliging. — 
You kindly offer to send me a list of the Cryptogamia of 
