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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Mitten
Date:
12 January 1887
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Letters to W Mitten, 1848-1905, ff. 218, 220
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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ARW describes to Mitten the flora, vegetation, geology and landscapes he has travelled through in North America including the Mississippi at St Louis, Cincinnati, Kansas, Sioux City (the latter he compares to the Downs between Clayton and Lewes). ARW invites Mitten to join him, giving approximate costs of travel and living expenses.
Urges Mitten to join him in June or July at Manitou Springs in the Rocky Mountains, has met a lady botanist who says plants magnificent; detailed instructions on route from Quebec or Montreal, advice on luggage, clothing, plant boxes and sphagnum, travel by steamer and train, sleeping car accommodation and cost versus hotels; will write to wife Annie from San Francisco.
Plans to go to the Rocky Mountains; will look out for medicinal plants for Mitten.
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From ARW to his father-in-law instructing he forward the enclosed information to Annie his wife about his movements and intentions regarding his returning home from his North American tour. ARW also describes his trip out the previous day to a primeval forest and the plant species he encountered.