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Rec'd Genoa May 14” 1858
Frankf. July 21
With 110 common
plants
and 180 species.
Most honored Sir.
| am sorry to have to admit (verify) that | was not able to see you and pay my
respects before you left this city. It would have pleased me to take you to the City
Museum and introduce you to my new favorite places, but | was unable to get
around for two days and | learned later from my respected friend, Signor Gan
that you had departed. He gave me your regards and told me that you would
remember me to Saint Louis and that you would attend to the consignment of
snakes and plants that you had proposed to give to this museum- together with a
pledge of plants for me.

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| cannot begin to respond to such kindness and I do not know how to
make myself worthy of it and | assure you that you would greatly honor me if 1
could make my myself useful to you in this village or in my Switzerland and be
delighted if | can be helpful to you and to your friends.

Allow me to send you just a small package of plants which | know you will
appreciate; this will serve as proof of my good will and of my most vivid wish that
you do not forget (let fall from your memory) to write when you have returned to
your residence in St. Louis.

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The pressure of time and the fact that | only knew a couple of days ago
that you were coming back via Genoa so that | might be able to give you this
dispatch; as well as the trouble in finding you a copy of my little botanical
magazine plus the multitude of shipping in the middle of winter- all have kept me
from doing better in finding numerous species of hemlock and spruce. It pleases
me above all that you will find among the plants that | sent you some which are
at least deserving of your attention.

Whether you an appreciate it or not, | will in additional deliveries be able to
supply you with occasional rare specimens of spruce from this country and from
Switzerland: also both fanerogames and cryptogames and do so with all dispatch
once you have indicated

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that you indeed want them and by what means and method you want them sent
for convenience.
Rather than bother you all the time | beg you to put me in touch with some able
botanist in Philadelphia or any other city of the USA and | believe that with your
means and with the cooperation of this fellow we can better compare the
production of the” vegetable kingdom” in these most interesting regions.

| would especially like to enter into correspondence with a scientist who is
interested in mosses, liverworts and lichen having as I do a special preference
for this branch of botany

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This preference of mine also makes me delight in every species of cryptogames,
ferns, mushrooms, liverworts, lichens and lycopodium which you will see added
to the collections | advertise from Milan. Nevertheless it does not cut into the
pleasure that | take in the fanerogames that you and others want to send me,
because these will also be useful to me in my intention of increasing the luster of
my collection.

Confident that you will receive my inquiries and requests kindly ! thank you
most kindly in advance for the work you will do in my favor, | submit this request
to you in perfect esteem and trust.

Milan, May 5, 1858. (Umilissimo devotissimo servitor) Your humble and
devoted servant

Alberto Franzoni
(Written sideways: My address: Attorney Alberto Franzoni, Bellingona, Canton
Ticino, Switzerland

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