Melbourne bot. Garden,
16 July 1858.
My dear Mr Powlett.
The bearer of these lines, John Beaby, is warmly recommended to me by Mr O Shanassy and I shall use my influence to see him again employed at the zoological Gardens. But as there the work is at a standing still just now & as I have already taken one of the Beabys on in the bot Gardens, altho' overdrawing my average rate of wages, I should be glad if you could give him for a few weeks temporary employment.1
Most truely yours
Ferd. Mueller
Mr Commissioner Powlett2
Please cite as “FVM-58-07-16,” 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