Melbourne botanic Garden
6/3/63.
My dear Miss Henderson,
Mr M'Haffies presence offers unexpectedly a most excellent opportunity of sending you the humble volumes, which I intended to bring myself. I have added some stray plates of illustrations, prepared for the continuation of these works. Altho' this is a very imperfect series of what is ready, it may be sufficient for showing that the lithographic printer as well as the draftsman are improving in their displays
I have not yet obtained an official answer from the Government to my application for leave of absense, but learned privately that my propositions were favorably received by the Cabinet.
I was much delighted to hear, that we may enjoy here your and your sisters visit so much earlier than we anticipated. Perhaps I shall to morrow have the happiness of hearing from you, probably however not in time to communicate with Mr M'Haffie before his departure, which is fixed for to morrow forenoon.
Very regardfully, dear Miss Henderson, yours
Ferd. Mueller.
Please cite as “FVM-63-03-06,” 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