To William Hooker   19 January 1857

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

A. H. Bates forwarded the parcel from Brighton on 19 May 1857, regretting that his detention on the Continent after leaving the ship at Malta, and the delay in forwarding luggage from Southampton, had delayed delivery (Bates to W. Hooker, 19 May 1857, RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol LXXIV, letter no. 16).
B55.13.12; see the discussion by Seberg (1986) and his appendix (pp 266 – 271) listing publication place and dates of M’s early descriptions.
M to W. Hooker, 11 January 1857.

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