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Mr. Elliott has sent me his 7 number [22] & promises to send 
on No. 8 shortly. 
I will just add, secund L D v S, the names of the Violae which 
I have observed this spring in & abt Bethlehem. 
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SCHWEINITZ TO’ TORREY 
BETHLEHEM Nov 24th 1822 
Dr. JoHN Torrey New York 
Dear Sir 
The uncertainty whether the distressing calamity with which 
New York was visited, might not prevent a letter from reaching 
you, hindered me from writing to you sooner; I am now however 
occupied with examining your last kind packages of Cryptog. & 
should on that account have deferred writing still longer in order to 
give you my determinations, had not the present good opportunity 
offered for transmitting to you a copy of a small work bearing 
my name on its title which was sent to me from Germany|[75|—to 
my no small surprize, as I was utterly unaware that it would be 
published—altho’ I must confess myself the author. I left it with 
a friend some years ago, without any such _Idea—but have no ob- 
jection that he disposed of it in that way. Possibly it will be not 
uninteresting to you—as it contains a list of all the Fungi I had 
observed in N. C. previous to 1817—with descriptions of the new 
ones & I beg therefore of you to accept it as a token of friendship. 
If you could again favor me with some of the New York—or 
other American plants still wanting in my collection I should be 
very much obliged to you. 
Do you think there would be any hope of procuring for money 
or other consideration such plants from Mr. Prince as his garden 
affords—in dry specimens? Iam told he cultivates most of Mr. 
Nuttall’s & other Missouri plants. If you think it possible I would 
thank you to point out to me the necessary measures. Prof. Dewey 
wrote to me some time ago that he was going to send some plants 
to you for me. If he has, the gentleman who brings this, will be 
kind enough to take them in return. 
In a short time I hope to send you a list of my determinations 
of your last packages. 
