Melbourne botanical & zoological Garden,
10. Sept. 1858.
Dear Mr Gunn,
The celebrated royal traveller, Prince Paul William Duke of Wuertemberg, intends to pay a flying visit to your beautiful island before leaving the Australian shores, but desires for the better accomplishment of his researches to preserve a strict incognito & travels therefore under his title as Count Heidenheim.
In order that the Prince, who devoted the greater parts of his life-time to the advancement of natural sciences, may reap the greatest benefit from his very brief stay in Tasmania, I recommend his Royal Highness to the attention of so accomplished a naturalist as yourself, — particularly as you may be able to aid his Highness in obtaining the rarer zoological & botanical specimens of Van Diemens Land.
With my best wishes for your welfare, I remain, my dear Mr Gunn, your
very humble
Ferd. Mueller.
Ronald Gunn Esq. J.P.,
Fellow of the Royal & Linnéan Society of London &c &c &c
near Launceston
Please cite as “FVM-58-09-10,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/58-09-10