Mr Inspector Foster is requested to sell the black Pony and to remit the proceeds and is asked for further information respecting Mr Howitts horse.
Ferd. Mueller
15/10/61.
MS is an annotation by M on a letter from T. McDonough Foster, Superintendent at the Police Office, Swan Hill, Vic, to Macadam, 7 October 1861, reporting that a black pony had been left in his charge by 'a Mr McDonogh one of Mr Burke's party' [i.e. Thomas McDonough, a member of the Burke and Wills Exploring Expedition] 'he being on his way to Town from the Darling', and also that at Alfred Howitt's request he had bought him a roan mare for £30. Macadam presumably passed the letter to M for comment.
Please cite as “FVM-61-10-15a,” 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