268 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM March 29th 1832 
My dear Sir 
Your exceedingly agreeable communication of the 29th ult. 
ought to have been answered long ago—& would—but for a new & 
severe attack of my complaint—owing, I have reason to fear, in a 
great measure to the failure of Spring coming on, & that unheard 
of severe weather which has with us kept alternating with warmth. 
I trust the worst is over & have found considerable relief from my 
complaint for a few days past—so that I can again breathe with 
some freedon. 
How much I deplore that you were prevented from forwarding 
what you intended for me—pray leave anything of the kind at Mr. 
Van Vleck’s or Bininger’s—& it will reach me. As regards the 3d 
number of Hooker [34] as it is now too late to request its perusal 
for the present, I shall be much obliged to you to send it in autumn 
so that I may have it during next winter, begging by all means, if 
you can spare it, toadd the 1st Ed. of No. 1 which you so kindly 
offer. 
But I can hardly adequately express to you the gratification 
& instruction, which the Copy of your Ed. of Lindley’s Introd[uc- 
tion] [46] (which Dr. Saynish bro’t me) imparted to me. I fairly 
devoured it—& think the work truly excellent. For the first 
time I have thereby been enabled to acquire an insight into the 
natural System & was delighted by it. 
For some time I have been busily engaged in making out a list 
of the duplicates I can make out of my collection for you. But it is 
a work of some considerable magnitude. Tho’ I do not precisely 
know whether you wish me to include European plants,—I have 
added a list of all, of which I can afford specimens, except such as 
are very common. Their number greatly exceeds that of the 
American duplicates I can offer you—as I naturally exclude from 
my list of these the numerous ones, which I know you are familiar 
with—or which I owe to your kindness. 
The parcels from Dr. Martius—tho’ they did not furnish to me 
more than about 40 species new to my collection, where [were] 
nevertheless valuable because in many instances they contained 
better specimens than I had before. He holds out a promise of 
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