
          Paris June 10th 1822


 Dear Torrey, 


 I have been greatly disappointed in
 not hearing from you lately in answer to my letters
 in February, so much so that I would rather believe that
 your letter have been lost or miscarried than that
 you have entirely forgot and neglected me. This
 however will be my very last attempt to keep up the
 correspondence unless you show a greater interest in
 it yourself.


 I wish to recommen to you & Halsey for a 
 correspondent Dr. [Friedrich Ernst Ludwig] Fischer, Director of the Botanic
 Garden of Gorenki near Moscow. I became acquain'd
 with him at Mr. Brongniart's and was so much
 pleased with him that I offered to procure him a corres't
 in America although he did not seem very anxious
 to have one, the reason of which was as he told me
 that he had written and sent so much to [David] Hosack
 [possibly William Dandridge] Peck & [Benjamin Smith] Barton &c. that he was discouraged. He
 speaks English French & German as fluently as a native
 and is an enthusiastic & learned Botanist, though
        