[Müller hat mir neulich aus dem Innern geschrieben, er hatte im Novbr. den hohen Mount Wellington bestiegen und manches Schöne gefunden.]
[Mueller recently wrote to me from the interior, saying that he had climbed the high Mount Wellington in November and found many beautiful things.]
Extract from W. Sonder to D. von Schlechtendal, 8 March 1855, a version of which was published in Tkach et al. (2022), Brief 26. M's letter is dated to December 1854 by comparison with letters written from Omeo that convey the same information: M to W. Haines,16 December 1854, and M to W. Hooker, 16 December 1854 (in this edition as 54-12-16a).
Sonder's letter is mostly concerned with the arrangements for publishing the series 'Plantae Muellerianae' in Schlechtendal's journal Linnaea, and enclosed the MS for Bentham (1853), but the part was not issued until May 1855 (TL2). Sonder also wrote 'ich möchte für Dr. Müller noch einiges kaufen, namentlich wäre es mir lieb, den Labillardière (Plant. Nov. Hollandiae) zu erstehen.' [I would still like to buy some things for Dr Mueller, in particular I would like to purchase the Labillardière (Plant. Nov. Hollandiae)] (i.e. Labillardière (1804-1806).
Please cite as “FVM-54-12-00,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on