Parlatore, Phillipe 



Rec. Sept. 26 1862 

 Ans. Nov 19 1863 



London, September 9, 1862 



Dear Sir, 



I take the liberty of addressing this letter to you after a few years of having had the honor of 

 making your personal acquaintance, to ask you please to be so kind to help me with the 

 description of the conifers that I am preparing already for two years after reading the works of 

 De Candolle. Everything that you could send me in regards dried plants and cônes from the 

 United States, from New Mexico, California, etc., would be very precious to me including, the 

 pamphlets in which you have described them. I am most interested in the species found by Mr. 

 Wisligeny and that you have illustrated, of which I lack nearly ail and on which I place great 

 value. I would also be very happy to own the Torreya with its ripe fruits and the Pinus 

 occidentalis from the Island of Santo Domingo that perhaps you have in your collection. Would 

 you own some cônes of the Abies or the Picea concolor found by Fendler and that I have not 

 seen here nor elsewhere? Could you please send me one? You could send ail this to me via 

 Florence in charge of G. Galliani and Co. in Livourne or through Vignole in Genoa, or Claude 

 Clerc in Marseille, or even through Mac Cracken at 7 Old Tawny Str. London. Ail those agencies 

 will see to it that what you send will arrive here in Florence. 



I regret not having anything here to give you, but I will hasten to send you the little things 

 that I have lately published on the plants of Italy and Lapland, if that would be agreeable. 



Therefore dear Sir, please accept my most distinguished assurances and considérations with 

 the honor of being your devoted 



Phillipe Parlatore 



Prof, of Botany at the Muséum of 

 History in Florence. 



Translation Manfred Thurmann 



