THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 239 
lect[ion]—promised me & on the way. I fear it is lost. Dr. 
Hooker has however sent me his Monograph on the British 
Jungermanniae [33]. 
Let me know if you please whether you at present have any 
botanical plan in view, in which I could assist you. Besides 
putting all things in order—the one I propose to prosecute next is 
a review of my whole collection—with an especial eye to your Flora 
of the North. States [89] & for the last classes [of] your Compend— 
noting everything I have knowledge of—from your precinct—which 
I do not find there—If I suceed in completing these remarks 
during the winter, it is my intention to communicate them to you 
& to accompany that communication by a transmission for your 
examination of an extract from my collection of all the specimens 
upon which my remarks are founded—which I shall beg you to 
return—when you have made such use of them as they may afford. 
Please to give me your new direction & believe me at all times yours 
affectionately 
L D v SCHWEINITZ 
TORREY TO SCHWEINITZ 
New York, April 3rd, 1828 
My Dear Sir, 
I really do not deserve to be numbered among your friends— 
so negligent have I been to you for many months past. Time 
‘after time have I resolved that I would sit down & write you a 
letter, although it should contain but a few lines—yet I have post- 
poned it again & again, chiefly because I had no sufficient excuse 
for my neglect—but partly because I could communicate nothing 
that would particularly interest you. Since last August my time 
has been fully occupied. The change in my affairs imposed new 
duties on me—& from the time that my lectures in the college 
commenced, until lately, I have had no leisure to correspond, or 
indeed to attend to anything but Chemistry. At length, however, 
I am released, & I am deeply engaged in botanical pursuits. Often 
have I thought of you, My Dear Sir, as I occasionally peeped into a 
package of plants (for I kept my herbarium in a room adjoining 
the laboratory in the Med[ica]l College), or when I turned my eyes 
towards a pile of unanswered letters, that laid for several months 
on my table. I indulged the pleasing hope last week that I 
