Melbourne 19. Jan 57.
My dear Sir William
A friend of mine Mr Bates going home by the Suez-line next month promised to be kind enough to deliver a parcel of books for you.1 —
He is a gentleman of long colonial experience and can give you much interesting information, and I beg to recommend him to your attention. The books will perhaps not be of very great value to you, still the transactions contain 100 diagnoses not re[…]ted in the reprint.2 A long letter of my last discoveries in tropical Australia is coming in the Gov. mailbag,3 and will no doubt arrive before this, so that I may be dispensed this time of giving any particular account but that I found it uncombinable with my position here to leave for home at present, and that I am thus yet for a year or two deprived of the anticipated pleasure of seeing you.
Most devotedly
yours
Ferd. Mueller.
Sir W. J. Hooker
K. H. &c &c &c
Please cite as “FVM-57-01-19,” 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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/57-01-19