THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 161 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM May 15th 1822 
Dear Sir 
By last mail (unaccountably late) I had the pleasure of re- 
ceiving your favor of the 3d instant—by which I was among the 
rest apprised that the short letter which I wrote you immediately 
after the extremely acceptable receipt of the package brought me 
by Mr. Lilienkron had not arrived. What can be the reason of so 
frequent a failure of letters between us, or at least of their delay, 
while nothing can be more expeditious & punctual than the 
arrival at & from New York of all my business letters? Perhaps 
I do not sufficiently express your address. In that case—I 
earnestly beg you to furnish me with a correct one. 
The above package, together with the books was, I must 
therefore repeat, most safely delivered to me by my Swedish 
friend. You cannot imagine how much I am delighted with Fries 
[23]—I know I ought to have returned it before this—but un- 
happily I have been so much occupied with official duties that I 
have not yet got thro’—but the next opportunity that offers— 
you may depend on receiving it back—as I hope to‘compleat my 
extract in a few days. I most earnestly beseech you to procure 
the book & its continuation for me at any price. The system I 
think very conformable to my own observations. 
I hope you are not in earnest when you excuse yourself for 
troubling me so often—no greater pleasure can I receive. I am 
delighted with the Idea of your devoting yourself to the Musci—& 
hope that we jointly shall one day be able to make out something 
like an Am. Cryptog. The last mosses you sent I have not yet 
had time to examine with anything like accuracy—but will do so, 
as soon as possible. 
In case you send me anything by the Stage—please to address it 
to the Care of Mr. Philip Mixsell, Easton—Depend on it I shall send 
you a list of my Cryptog. collection (designating my authorities) 
in as short a time as I can. 
Prof. Silliman promised to send the Proof sheets to you of my 
little dissertation on the Violae [68]—& I am in despair to hear 
he has not—for in that case, to judge by the Litchfield Catalog 
[Brace, 11] in the last numbers—there is not the slightest hope 
