936 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
to lay hold of your Compend [87]. It has not only not been sent 
to me as you directed—but my endeavors to procure it in Phila- 
delphia have been fruitless—& from the manner in which my Book- 
seller Mr. Walter promises to get it from New York I very much 
fear he has misunderstood my directions, tho’ I copied the title 
from the N. Am. review—& will get me your unfinished Flora [89]. 
However, I promise myself to be in a fair way of getting it at all 
events, nay of doing what is still more my earnest desire, videlicet, 
getting a peep at your own natural self. It is this delightful pros- 
pect, which causes me to trouble you with these lines. Some- 
where about the 22d or 23d of this month I hope to be in New 
York, where I shall have some business to transact, besides seeing 
our worthy Bishop on board of a vessel in which he is to depart 
for the West Indies (by the by, the finest chance I have as yet 
had of getting West Ind. Plants) which will detain me the greater 
part of the week following the 25th but not so unremittingly as to 
` prevent an attempt of storming West Point, supposing it possible 
that I could do so & return to New York in 48 hours. Now you 
would confer upon me a very great favor by writing a letter to 
me at New York, to the Care of Mr. Jacob Bininger to be by him 
delivered to me, informing me whether I should be likely to find 
the only part of the Garrison that greatly interests me ready to ad- 
mit of such an attempt, & if so, when & how it could be most ad- 
vantageously executed in the week after the 25th. Please inform 
me likewise of the address of Mr. Halsey at this time. I trust you 
will not find anything Arnoldish in the present negotiation & 
therefore grant the prayer of your sincere friend 
L D v SCHWEINITZ 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM April 17th 1827 
Dr JoHN TORREY 
My dear Sir 
The most pleasing recollections of the agreeable, tho’ short 
time, I had the good fortune to spend with you, would be not a 
little clouded by the many things I now think I forgot to converse 
about with you, did I not flatter myself that your kind promise 
of spending some part of the vacation with me, would afford an. 
