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Solidago altissima Hab. Car. Sept. Hon. D. Schweinitz
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Bethlehem Sept 9th 1822
Stephen Elliott Esq. {Esquire}
Dear Sir
I feel very much ashamed that I have not earlier acknowledged the receipt of your two kind letters, the first of which was accompanied by a most welcome number of plants & No. 7 of your invaluable work — & the last by No. 8 — Nothing could have occassioned me to defer rendering you my most heartfelt thanks except my anxious desire to be able to be of service to you concerning the Syngensicus plants among the former — and I hoped from week to week to find leisure to go into a more minute examination I am sorry to be obliged to confess I have not yet succeeded but canot defer any longer acknowleding the receipt of your kind present. Luck has been & will continue for some time the excess of official duties, that I have very rarely indeed been able to devote an hour to Botany. Besides these plants were most of them such as I need never before seen — & can consequently scarce hope to give any useful opinion on them.
Before winter sets in, there is a prospect of a considerable alleviation of the official burdens on my shoulders, which promises me more time to study — & I most sincerely hope then to be enabled to do you some service. You will do me a particular favor to lay by for me any thing you may be able to spare. The plants you send were in the highest degree acceptable — but alas I am still lamentably deficient in Southern plants — and I fear you are the only gentleman there from whom I could hope, if your time was not so much occupied to get more.
Accept dear Sir of my most sincere respects remaining
Yours Lewis D. Schweinitz
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D. Schweinitz 9. Sept 1822
Bethlehem Pa Sep 10 25 Stephen Elliott Esq. {Esquire} President of the State bank Charleston South Carolina