218 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
No news of Mr. Nuttall’s return yet! It is rather a dangerous — 
experiment to get a large fortune as I hear he has—it is even more 
so than Mineralogy. 
You will greatly oblige me my dear Sir to let me hear from 
you if possible by Mr. Mortimer. Be so good as to present my 
best respects to Mr. Halsey in whose debt I am I believe. 
I remain yours most cordially 
Lewis D v SCHWEINITZ 
P.S. My dear sir, now that you have so very properly followed 
Benedict’s example, I beg leave to inform you, that it is almost 
an indispensable piece of fashion to make the tour of Easton, 
Bethlehem (& Mauch Chunk if you please) for a newly married 
gentleman & his lady & will not doubt your willingness to follow 
the good fashion at least as far as Bethlehem, where I hope to 
give you cogent reasons for stay. That unfortunate namesake of < 
yours, of whom I have heretofore told you, keeps pestering me 
with disappointments—as yesterday calling upon me—in order to 
convince me of the probability that some species of grasses—white 
clover for instance & sorrel—according to his classification of 
grasses—occasionally spring up without seed or root from mere 
chemical composition of their component parts, of which it appears 
he considers marle a principal one. 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM Sept. 13th 1824 
Dear Sir 
I have succeeded in persuading myself that the circumstance 
of my not receiving an answer to my long lost letter of a forgotten 
date was owing to some absence of yours from home. I sincerely 
hope that my not receiving advice from you of the safe arrival of 
a very large Packet for Dr. Hooker at Glasgow which I forwarded 
to you by my friend Rev. Benj. Mortimer of New York is owing 
to the same circumstance as I should be very sorry indeed to 
learn that anything untoward should have happened to that 
package. 
The object of my present letter, under the hypothesis that 
you may now probably have returned from the supposed Journey 
is to beg leave to introduce to your acquaintance my highly re- 
