THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 237 
opportunity of repairing these deficiencies. I trust nothing will 
turn up to disappoint me in the sanguine hope of seeing you 
here & beg you would be so kind as to give me precise notice of 
your coming a little before, in order to enable me to arrange 
matters so, that I may be able fully to enjoy one of the greatest 
pleasures I can anticipate. In the hurry of my leaving you I 
unfortunately forgot the Index of my Herbarium—which I should 
be very anxious to get as soon as possible & regret that I did not 
mention it to Mrs. Torrey when I had the pleasure of waiting upon 
her to deliver your packet in the morning after my arrival at New 
York—as I might then probably have received it before I left the 
city. I should likewise be much obliged to you if you would take 
measures to have the Ten Dollars for Schwagrichen [66] paid to 
my account in the Union Bank & give me notice thereof. 
Concerning the Fungi you were so kind as to give me I beg 
leave to observe that there are among them five or six new ones, 
together with a larger number of such as are rare to me & have not 
ever been found by myself, tho’ I had previously received them 
from you. You desired me to return you the duplicates where 
such could be made out—& I now beg to know whether you wish 
to have pieces of all those I received from you—or only of those I 
have determined as new & whether you are content to wait for 
them until you come here—or desire them to be forwarded im- 
mediately. So small a packet I fear would be liable to be lost. 
I am glad to find that I can spare you 2 or 3 specimens of our 
German Sclerot{ium] vaporarium—& will try to enclose a few of 
my S. medullare in this letter—which I found in the hollow of 
some Syngenesious plants in a garden—occupying the place of 
the medulla. It is rather the largest species of Sclerot[ium] I 
have met with in this country. 
A press of business obliges me to take abrupt leave of you 
with the assurance of my sincere respect & friendship & I hope you 
will ever consider me 
Yours affectionately 
D. v SCHWEINITZ 
