Received Frankfurt Ju ne 28 , 1857 

 Ans. Paris July 26 



Most illustrious person and celebrated botanist 

 Dr. Engelmafy{\ 

 from ^ J 



Elias Fries 



I gratefully acknowledge the receipt ofthe second part of Plantarum Lindheimeri 

 and as a thank you for your generosity I am sending you in return 5-600 rare 

 scandinavian plants. 



From my singularly competent and generous fiiend Asa Gray I received some 

 time ago the first volume of the Lindheimer collection.l have inserted the first 

 collection in our herbarium and shall now do the same with the second. The 

 sheets had been disturbed during the transportation and the assignment ofmany 

 specimens is not clear. I must therefore ask you, ifpossible, to send me a list of 

 interpretations of plants about which I am uncertain. 

 I am not happy with my american plant collection. The complete Tuckerman 

 Herbarium; a small endowment ofthe Schweinitz collection and Curtises; these I 

 have received from Asa Gray. From the same new world I have almost nothing 

 from Oregon and the Rocky Mountain region, also very little from Mississippi, 

 Georgia,Alabama, Florida and Louisiana. The current Draemondi collection with 

 this regional distribution has not been made available to me. Thus I must 

 respectfully ask you ifyou can send me some of these regional plants for which I 

 am prepared to remunerate you. 



Best regards my famous friend; I, too, hope to be included among your many 

 friends. Jkly 



Daban, Upsala Jme-20 1847 ( Engelmann corrected to 1857. Transl.) 

 Great in Europe;not to speak of America! 



