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may be & crack-brained I am sure. His short reviews of 23 recent 
works—among which your ed. of Lindley [46] is likewise paraded— 
are truly comical. I have some notion of competing for the 
splendid prize of Twenty-five Dollars he offers, to be paid Nota 
bene—in pamphlets of his own manufacture & specimens of plants 
from the same laboratory—for the best synopsis of U.S. Phaenog. 
plants—under the highly characteristic condition—that not a 
single one already described or published in Europe & Am.—(mean- 
ing by himself) shall be omitted. Do pardon me, dear Sir, 
for the impertinence of sending you these enormous lists & be- 
lieve me most sincerely Yours 
Lewis D v SCHWEINITZ 
P.S. I am happy to say that by the Lord’s mercy I am almost 
entirely recovered in my health—& do not doubt that Spring, 
if it come at all—will complete my entire restoration. 
SCHWEINITZ TO TORREY 
BETHLEHEM May 17th 1832 
My dear Sir 
Some weeks ago I took the liberty to trouble you with a 
very voluminous list of my duplicates—together with a letter— 
which I trust came safe to hand. I did not expect an answer 
immediately as I am aware your time is so much engaged—but 
had requested a friend who since has gone to New York to give 
you a call & to learn whether it has reached you. He however 
forgot to fulfill his promise. I therefore now write to you in 
order to say, that about the 12th of June, Deo volente, I hope 
to be in New York for a few days & should be very much obliged 
to you, if you would kindly by that time leave a line at Rev. W. 
Henry Van Vleck’s, No. 14 Dutch Street, informing me of the time 
& number where I could conveniently to you, call upon you. My 
duties will call me to divers places at a distance from New York— 
so that I should be extremely glad to be able to arrange an inter- 
view before hand. 
You will learn with satisfaction, I am sure, that it has pleased 
the Lord perfectly to restore my health excepting only a stiff- 
_ ness in the lower extremities which greatly impedes me in walking 
—but which I shall probably never get over, as I begin to con- 
