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<dd>Correspondence from Louis David von Schweinitz to John Torrey, dated 1820-1832, discussing a multitude of plants (multi-page lists of species are frequently included with letters), particularly cryptogamia; his frequent bouts of ill health; and the activities of their friends and associates. His tone is nearly always warm, patient and fatherly (upon receiving news of Torrey's marriage: "I hope it is not too late to express my sincere congratulations upon your conversion from celibacy...")-- except when confronted with the antics of Rafinesque. "I wonder whether you have seen that most extraordinary &amp; impertinent publication which Rafinesque has just issued-- on every possible subject under the title of Atlantic Journal, " he writes in 1832. "He is doubtless a man of intense knowledge-- as badly digested as may be &amp; crack brained I am sure." Obsolete and unresolved plant names mentioned include Agnostus, Aira compressa, Aira pumila, Blitum maritimum, Carex subulata, Gerardia, Girardia auriculata, Gymnopodium, Hepatica, and Scirpus planifolius</dd>
<dd>John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden</dd>
<dd>Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with additional support from Carnegie Corporation of New York</dd>
<dd>Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Herbarium; Algae; Botanical specimens; Carex; Cyperus; Fungi; Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834 -- Correspondence; Torrey, John, 1796-1873 -- Correspondence; Torrey, John, 1796-1873. Catalogue of plants, growing spontaneously within thirty miles of the City of New-York; Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de, 1778-1841; Collins, Zaccheus, 1764-1831; Conrad, Solomon White, 1779-1831; Cooper, William, 1798?-1864; Darlington, William, 1782-1863; De Kay, James E. (James Ellsworth), 1792-1851; Denke, Christian F., 1775-1838; Dewey, Chester, 1784-1867; Drummond, Thomas, -1835; Elliott, Stephen, 1771-1830; Fries, Elias, 1794-1878; Greville, Robert Kaye, 1794-1866; Halsey, Abraham, 1790-1857; Hedwig, Johannes, 1730-1799; Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829; Le Conte, John Eatton, 1784-1860; Lederer, Alois Joseph Xavier, Baron von, 1773-1842; Lindley, John, 1799-1865; Long, Stephen H. (Stephen Harriman), 1784-1864; Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von, 1794-1868; Mortimer, Benjamin, Rev., -1834; Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815; Muhlenberg, Henry, 1753-1815 -- Herbarium; Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. (Christian Gottfried), 1776-1858; Nuttall, Thomas, 1786-1859; Pickering, Charles, 1805-1878; Prince, William Robert, 1795-1869; Rafinesque, C. S. (Constantine Samuel), 1783-1840; Saynish, Lewis, Dr., active 1832; Schwaegrichen, F. (Friedrich), 1775-1853; Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864; Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833; Thorburn, George C; American Philosophical Society; Wm. R. Prince &amp; Co</div>
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Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834</div>
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