198 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
petent to undertake anything like a monography of these—but 
should be glad to assist a better hand, by a view of my very numer- 
ous specimens.—Write to me explicitly whether you wish me to 
do so—& I will put things into such a condition—that at a mo- 
ment’s warning when you want them—the whole mass may be 
sent to you. 
You may easily judge how impatient I am to get Hooker’s 
present—« to enter into the correspondence he desires. Will you 
undertake to forward to him, what I wish to send holding me ac- 
acountable for all expenses? I believe I can in a short time make 
up a very good number of Fungi—which he seems to desire. 
This promised work of Greville’s [28] makes me long still more 
for the package from you—which week after week fails to arrive. 
I do not blame you—because I know by my own experience how 
little time is left to a man of business for these things—but I 
can’t help telling you how much I desire to receive the little & the 
large things you promise. 
Believe me yours most sincerely 
Lewis D v SCHWEINITZ 
P.S. Please to deliver the inclosed to Mr. Halsey whose direction 
I have inadvertently rendered illegible by a careless opening of the 
seal of his last. 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM 27th Jan. 1824 
My dear Sir 
Knowing how much your time is occupied I by no means 
intend to complain that I have not heard from you (except by 
deeds of invaluable kindness—in the loan of your curious Carices) 
for so long a time. But I feel the necessity of improving the re- 
covery of my health, which for weeks past has been such as to 
incapacitate me from any useful exertion, by indulging my mind 
with such occupations as are most likely to give it pleasure. 
And none can do so more than a correspondence with you. My 
last communications were in the same indirect mode with your 
last ones. In the box I sent to Mr. Halsey I not only returned 
you the Carices so kindly sent, but attempted to shew you my 
gratitude for the favor by adding a small number of plants which 
I conceived might be agreeable to you. I confess I long to hear 
Eee 
Bes 
