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Louis David von Schweinitz and John Torrey correspondence, 1820-1832

by: Schweinitz, Lewis David von, 1780-1834

Publication date: 1820

Topics: 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 & Co

Collection: nybgtorrey; biodiversity; NY_Botanical_Garden

Contributor: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library

Language: English

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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 & 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 & 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

John Torrey Papers (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden

Digitized under grant #PW-234827-16 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with additional support from Carnegie Corporation of New York

Finding aid for the John Torrey papers available from the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden and online

Abstract: 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 & 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 & 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.