René Lenormand Rec. Munich Oct. 25 Ans. Frankfurt Dec. 16 



Vire October 16, 18J7 



Dear Sir, 



I hurry to inform you that today I witl send you a package of plants, through the Impérial 

 Bureau of Parcels Service of our city. It will then go by train to Caen, and it should arrive 

 at about the same time as this letter. I began to prépare them as soon as I could take my 

 hands out of the water, where they had been 10 to 12 hours per day for more that two 

 months, without interruption. Because the Algae have for you only a secondary interest, 

 you will find none in my envoi. I will still need much time before I have the results of my 

 endeavors, and the delay that I may have caused you, will have been a loss tor you. 



Among my duplicates, I chose the phanerogams that I believe would be the most 

 interesting for you. They came from Haiti, the Marquesa tslands, the Phillipines, 

 California, Asia Minor, etc. I hope my correspondants will provide me in the near future 

 with new material that will merit your attention and will be reserved in advance, because 

 without doubt you will return to the United States. I will see to it that you receive the 

 package. I also hope the distance that will separate us will not be an obstacle to our 

 relations and that you will have the kindness of telling me the manner in which I can send 

 you ail what is destined to you. 



You will find with my plants the list of ail the ones that you so kindly gave me. I don't 

 doubt that among the doubles you have brought with you, there will be many species 

 that I do not have. Other than you, I have no one, except Mr. Curtis, that enrich me with 

 many plants, not only beautiful but rare, collected in the Carolinas.The végétation of 

 Texas and New Mexico and other southern areas of the United States, are very thinly 

 represented in my herbarium. If you could give me the name of ail or a portion of the 

 ones collected by Fendler, I will be endebted to you kindness, even if they only have 

 numbers or generic names. I would be very thankful if, before you départ from Europe, 

 you would détermine other things that I could procure for you. I will always be entirely at 

 your service. 



Please be so good, dear Sir, to not delay any news you wish to send me, informing me if 

 my package has arrived in good shape and if you have been satisfied. 



Accept my renewed assurances of affection and total dévotion. 



René Lenormand 



translation Manfred Thurmann (1998) 



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