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thousand accidents & unforeseen occurrences took place which 
’ consumed my time, so that 5 o’clock P.M. (the hour at whf{ich] 
the Steam boat started) arrived & I was obliged to leave the city 
without accomplishing the main object of my visit! But I will not 
repine.—It is probably all for the best. Will you certainly leave 
New York before I could get to you? If you will—do, my dear 
friend not blame me for not managing matters better.—Believe 
me, my heart is with you & a day will seldom pass but I shall 
regret our separation. I pray our merciful God will prosper you 
in your journey & return you in his own good time to your family 
and friends. In great haste (for the Steam boat is coming) I 
assure you of my deep regard & sincere friendship. 
Yours truly 
Jonn Torrey. 
TORREY TO SCHWEINITZ 
WEst Point, December—1825 
My Dear Sir, 
I am greatly rejoiced to hear, through our friend Mr. Halsey, 
of your safe return after so tedious an absence. I hope you have 
been every way prosperous, whatever was the object of your 
voyage, & that you will never again be separated from us—at least 
for so long a time. With the exception of Caricography there has 
been little done in Botany since you left us. Mr. Halsey has told 
you much respecting the Monograph [71].—You will recollect 
that this work was written about two years before the printing 
of it was commenced, & i in the interval a great deal was done in 
N. American Caricog. Prof. Dewey had laboured much, & so 
had my friends Dr. Barratt, Mr. Davis, & others. My materials 
in addition to what you had accumulated, were very considerable. 
All these I took the liberty of adding to your Monograph & 
wrote the whole over anew, trusting that you would be willing, on 
your return, to acknowledge me a joint labourer in the work. If 
I were not engaged in writing a Flora of the Northern States [89], 
which will embrace most of the Carices in the Monog., I would 
freely have made you a present of my materials—but I wish to 
have it known that I have done something, even in the difficult 
department to which our genus belongs. When I come to the 
subject of Carices in my Flora, it is not to be expected that I 
