From A. P. White & Company   5 May 1860

Melbourne May 5th 1860.

Dr Mueller

Botanical Gardens

 

Dr Sir

As you have been kind enough to take considerable interest in relation to the purchase by the Exploration Committee of the Camels shipped to our care from Aden, we beg to draw your attention to the enclosed copy of a letter addressed by us as long back as the 11th April to Dr Macadam,1 and to which no answer whatever has been returned.

We have offered, and again offer, these animals to the Committee on any reasonable terms, and really think that our proposition is entitled to some slight consideration. —

We are, Dear Sir,

Yours faithfully

A. P. White & Co2

1
The attached copy of the company's letter to Macadam reads as follows: 'We beg permission to remind you that the six camels consigned to us for sale from Aden, and which arrived some months since pr "Malta", are still available for purchase by your committee. From the great care and attention which these animals required on the passage from Aden hither, (and which they received) we are tolerably well assured that the expectations which have been formed by the Government regarding the prospective safe arrival of camels from India will prove altogether delusive. The previous offers made by us with respect to the actual sale of the camels have been rejected by the Government; but before these animals are finally sold, for the purposes of exhibition, we are prepared to accept any reasonable terms which may be fixed by your committee, although such terms will doubtless involve the shipper in considerable loss. Requesting the favour of an early reply, we are [etc]'.
2
See also A. P. White & Company to M, 11 May 1860.

Please cite as “FVM-60-05-05,” 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 16 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/60-05-05