THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 199 
your remarks upon them. In the same package (besides a small 
one for Prof. Dewey) I sent you with a request to accept it as a 
token of friendship a copy at full length of my remarks on the 
American Carices ['71]—When you have had time to look it over—I 
should certainly feel desirous to hear your observations upon it & 
whether you conceive it in part proper to be communicated to the 
public. The latter part of last week I took the liberty to address 
to you a pretty large package for Dr. Hooker, Glasgow, containing 
Am. Fungi—but was then unable to accompany it with a letter. 
My request is, that if you know a way how to forward it, to be 
kind enough to do so—if not, to let me know & to keep it by you, 
until I am able to point out how it is to be sent. I delivered that 
package into the Easton stage office & directed it to the Care of 
Mr. Halsey—because the stage driver is in the habit of delivering 
packets there. If you could find time to advise me of its arrival 
I should be very glad. 
I do not doubt you are very busy in the prosecution of your 
great & valuable undertaking. How far will the next number 
bring us? ‘I am much obliged to you for the publication of my 
Table of Carices [67|—tho’ I am sorry that it necessarily is broken 
off in two numbers—which however cannot be of any consequence 
when the volume is bound together. 
Be so kind as to take this letter as it is meant only as a friendly 
attempt to remind you of me & to assure you that I shall ever be 
most sincerely 
Yours 
Lewis D v SCHWEINITZ 
TORREY TO SCHWEINITZ 
New York, Feb” 15th 1824 
My Dear Sir 
You would treat me no better than I deserve were you to 
erase me from the list of your friends, for indeed I have forfeited 
all claims to be considered as one of them. There is now before me 
a fearful pile of unanswered communications, & I have begun to 
clear them away this day. I begin with you, to whom I am under 
the greatest obligations in every point of view. The whole busi- 
ness of apology I shall dispense with & proceed at once to the 
subjects most interesting to us. 
