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lightful scientific society there. I saw Muhlenberg’s Her|bariu]m 
but did not examine the whole of it. 
I remain Dear Sir,—your faith & humb servt. 
Rev. L. D. SCHWEINITZ JoHN TORREY 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM April 2d 1823 
My dear Sir 
Your favor, postmarked the 28th ult., arrived yesterday & 
did not fail to give me the most sincere delight, for I had been 
anxiously expecting to hear from you, & had begun a letter which | 
now lay aside in order to answer yours. Greatly as I deplore that 
you have been disappointed in the Expedition to the Rocky moun- 
tains which must have produced to Science, yourself, & I flatter 
myself to me, such a harvest, I am still glad to know you are in our 
vicinity & that I shall have a chance of seeing you, in case I succeed 
in my design of coming to New York on a visit. But I most sin- 
cerely wish you could make it possible to come hither & spend some 
weeks with us—in which case my collections would ensure to you at 
least some entertainment. I am very glad to hear that my attempts 
to determine your kind communications were agreeable—but 
greatly regret that, excepting Fungi, in which family I can assume 
a little authority, they are so little to be depended upon. I 
think you misunderstood a part of my letter—I do not believe 
that either broom or other enemy of Science actually deprived 
me of anything I received from you. It was only the labels 
or papers whereon I had marked your numbers & my determina- 
tions, which were partly swept away & I had neglected to mark 
your numbers in my Herbarium, whither I had before the Catas- 
trophe arranged your presents. After all I was not aware of the 
nature of your numbers & imagined they had no relation to what 
you sent me, but refered to your own collection. I shall take 
care in future to be extremely particular in noting down what- 
ever you mark on the papers & labels immediately. Mr. Nuttall 
promises to send me shortly all his Cryptog. for examination— 
which I hope he may do.—I am greatly grieved at the loss of Prof. 
Dewey’s plants—but intend to write to him for a renewal if possible. 
You will most signally oblige me by sending West Indian or indeed 
