de Candolle, Alphonse 



Rec. April 23 Ans. June 27 



Genève, March 30, 1 862 



My Dear Doctor, 



It has been a long time since 1 have given you signs of life. I confess my faults, however there are 

 circumstances that diminish them a little. My studies on the Quercus has been delayed because of the 

 time it took for samples to corne from Madrid, originally from Nées, from Liebman in Copenhagen, 

 Laemann from London, Bouland form Paris and many others, which I needed, to establish a good 

 synonymy. During that time your samples stayed with me. I only wanted to send them to you with my 

 completed manuscript 



A misfortune has occured in my family. The loss of my daughter, Mrs. Richard Pietet, has discouraged 

 me to do any type of work. My daughter was a very happy young woman of 28 yrs. mother of a very 

 pleasant boy. Unfortunately her health was never good and she succumbed to consumption. 



Before this event I was busy publishing a volume of my father, rramed Memoirs and Remembrances of 

 Augustin Pyranus de Candolle, written by him. This occupation was very interesting as it allowed me to 

 read ancient letters received by my father. It made me classify his papers in a definite manner; I had to 

 assemble his notes and remove articles that were too personal. In other words the job of editor was very 

 important. I had to rewrite a préface that contai ns new points of view when the studies and the 

 dissapointment threw me into a type of inaction. During this time Mr.Boissier published the Euphorbia 

 in The Prodromes. You will receive thèse diverse publications. I did remit to your address, via a 

 business in this town, a box which will travel through New York. It is marked with a DC. 6 and it 

 contains: 



The Quercus that you lent me. 

 A package of dried plants that I beg you to accept. 

 Memoirs and Remembrances of Aug. Pyr. de Candolle. 

 Vol. XV, sect.2, page 1 of the Prodromus on Euphorbia. 



Biographie notes from Choissy on the végétation in Huilla in regards the cork, written by my son 



Cassimir de Candolle ( first pamphlet by this young man). 



I also included for Mr.Brendel: 



"On the Végétation of the Plateau of Huilla \ 



Formation of Cork by Cassimir de Candolle. 



Please thank Mr. Brendel for his writings on the Quercus, that has been of great value to me, just as 

 your notes and your superb samples. I had a spécimen from California drawn that I will publish.You 

 have a sample of this; it is the only known one. It is my Quercus Wislizeni, a very distinct species. 

 In gênerai I have very few new species, but their similarity will be new, thanks to the large number of 

 types that I compared. The spécimens from Mexico are very numerous. Without them we would not 

 have doubles. Bonpland had not seen the samples from Nées, nor Galeotti those from Bonpland, nor 

 Liebman those of any of his predecessors, nor Seemens who came last. In our spécimens from the 



