R. Lenormand Rec. June 1 Ans. Feb. 13, 1851 



Vire, February 18, 1850 



Dear Sir, 



While looking at the date ( August 28, 1848) of the last letter that I had the pleasure of 

 receiving from you and which I have been unable to answer, I am beginning to fear that 

 the crate of plants that you had the kindness of promising me for this winter or next 

 spring, were lost en route, that is if you sent them to me, because we are nearly at the 

 end of the second month of 1850. Please, therefore, reassure me and let me know the 

 means of transport that you employed to send it to me, so that I can inform Mr. Jules 

 Gardye, my correspondent in Le Havre, so that he can initiate the search, of what you 

 have sent me and which if lost would cause me the most profound distress. Relieve me I 

 pray, of this uncertainty, as promptly as possible but if your occupations have not allowed 

 you to do this until now, please be so kind to not forget your colleague by giving him 

 some of your disposable time. 



I replaced as well as I could, the time in 1849, that I could not employ for Botany and 

 which caused me great distress. After having given signs of life to most of my colleagues, 

 ail my time has been used without interruption from June to the end of November, in 

 préparation of a portion of the Algae that I had in storage. This work was indispensable 

 and of the greatest urgency, so as to address the numerous demands that were sent to 

 me from ail over, regarding plants that are researched more and more and have become 

 the subject of my time for already many years. I have been trying to catch up with my 

 correspondence, which has been lax for the past year. Among the species that I 

 rearranged, I found a certain number that I could offer you of which the majority are 

 exotic. I will be sure to include them in my first dispatch as you seemed to have had a 

 favorable impression of the ones I sent you previously. Thanks to you, dear Sir, my 

 wishes to get in touch with Mr Gailey, to ask him to correspond with me, have been 

 achieved with great success and I obtained from that botanist, who is as obliging as he is 

 scholarly, hydrophytes that gave me the greatest pleasure. Several had for me the merit 

 that they were new, and ail, thanks to the hand of the one who gave them to me, were 

 labeled in regards to the locality from where they were collected. I will not refrain from 

 giving you the name of those that you have so kindly sent me, with numbers and from 

 Kutsing, who is the best judge in this matter, the information that I asked him for. i will 

 receive them without doubt and then will be able to inform you of my future dispatch 

 which I will begin as soon as I have received news from you. I will offer you 

 phanerogams, worthy of your interest and that have been collected not only in foreign 

 lands but also in the most reknowned locations in France. Even today I have received a 

 package of plants from Lycenee, that I have not yet reviewed, but that at first sight make 

 me recognize a number of rare plants and even new ones.. Rest assured that you will 

 receive your portion. Please continue, I beg of you, to send to Mr. Gardye, businessman 

 in Le Havre, the packages that you wish me to receive. Count on me to procure 

 everything that I believe might me agréable to you . I believe that you also think that it is 

 as pleasurable to receive as to give. 



Please accept, dear Sir, my renewed assurances of sincère affection. 



From your devout, 

 René Lenormand 



Translation: M. Thurmann 



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