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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 163 
100 Cryp. you announce, & with a request that you will be so good 
as to think of the Phaenog. plants I still am in want of I remain 
Yours most affectionately 
Lewis D v SCHWEINITZ 
[TorREY’s letter of July 16, 1822, is missing.] 
SCHWEINITzZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM July 21st 1822 
My dear Sir 
Exquisite would have been the pleasure your kind favor 
of the 16th instant would have given me, had it not been for the 
circumstance that you appear not to have received my last letter 
together with the Volume of Fries [23] which I sent you, the receipt 
` of which is likewise not mentioned. It to be sure contained noth- 
ing of any moment, but I should be extremely sorry to hear that so 
valuable a book had been lost—I entreated you to procure me 
a copy of it at any price. 
I believe it is a good plan to leave a package for me at 
my friend Mr. Mortimer’s—but I am sorry to say I have not 
yet received that, which you kindly mention. Prof. Dewey at 
Williams College writes to me, that he has sent a package for 
me to your care—which please deliver over to Mr. Mortimer 
likewise when it arrives. I shall write to him on that account. 
But I must claim your indulgence till winter comes on for a scru- 
tiny of Cryptogamous plants sent me. Then I hope to be dis- 
embarrased of the Boarding School superintendence. At present 
I have hardly leisure to look over Phaenogamous plants—Perhaps 
you will be able to send me some of those New Yorkers on my list, 
which you have not yet communicated—& I should likewise be ex- 
tremely glad to get a number of those in Prince’s garden which are 
still wanting to me. The moment I have time I will make out a 
list of my American deficiencies for you. 
I deplore most sincerely that you had not time to subjoin 
your remarks on my Violae—by all means let me have them as 
soon as you can. Possibly Mr. Leconte’s observation concerning 
my having made too great a number of species, may be considered 
just by many—I was guided however by the study of the greater 
part in nature & in successive years—& find, as far as my time 
