THE CORRESPONENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND ToRREY 277 
The dreadful Cholera has now almost entirely left us, & not 
not one of my family has been touched—or rather none has been 
smitten down, for several of us have had mild attacks of the disease. 
Not even any of my relatives or near friends have been removed, 
though hundreds have fallen around us. Surely it has not been 
on account of our righteousness that we have been spared. It 
is God, that has preserved us, in his inscrutable sovereignty. 
I regret to hear, my dear Sir, that your health has not been 
established—that on the contrary, you grow more feeble. I 
pray that you may be patient & resigned, & that all your afflic- 
ticns may be turned to the profit of your soul, by him who says 
that “affliction cometh not forth of THE DUST.” 
A few days ago I received a large collection of plants from the 
Arkansas country,—embracing about 300 species. Many of 
them are exceedingly curious and interesting—& not a few of 
them quite new. I have a few duplicates of the rarer species; 
which I will send to you by an early opportunity. Some of the 
plants had been collected by Nuttall, in 1819 & 1820. These 
have mostly been described & sent to De Candolle for publica- 
tion. Who is to continue De Candolle’s Prodromus [16]? I 
suppose you have heard of the death of this great man. The 
5th vol. embracing the Compositae, must have been completed 
before his death. 
Last week my wife & eldest daughter embarked for Europe. 
They are to spend the winter with our relations in Ireland, & I 
hope, with leave of Providence, to join them early in the spring. 
It is my intention to take over as many of our doubtful plants 
as possible & compare them with the original specimens in the 
herbaria of Pursh, Hooker, Michaux, & others who have written 
on our Botany. If you have any plants which you should like 
to have compared, I hope you will send them to me in the course 
of the winter. 
Excuse this short & uninteresting letter, & believe me, my 
dear Sir, 
Truly & affectionately yours 
JoHN TORREY 
ReEvp. L. DE SCHWEINITZ 
