To William Pamplin   25 March 1863

25/3/63

Dear Mr Pamplin.

I have not yet your annual account. I suppose Mr Anderson paid the £45 " — — & I have urged on Dr Anderson in Calcutta to liquidate also the claim of £80 — and to place the sum at your disposal.1 I received the journals of the R.G.S. by last mail. Pray do not send anything more except what is specially ordered to come that way by the overland mail, as it causes an extravagant expense in freight. Pray economize the funds which you will receive from Mr Anderson as far as possible.

I would like to know what collections of McGillivray are purchasable at Cumings & at what price.2

Yours regardfully

Ferd. Mueller

1
M had paid Pamplin ­money on behalf of Robert Anderson; see M to J. Hooker, 25 March 1862 (in this edition as 62-03-25e) and 22 June 1862; M to William Pamplin, 26 July 1862 (in this edition as 62-07-26a) and 26 September 1862.
2
Hugh Cuming had advanced money to John MacGillivray to help finance his collecting; see Dance (1980), p. 493, and H. Cuming to F. Strange, 1 February 1855, in Whittell (1947), pp 112-3.

Please cite as “FVM-63-03-25d,” 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 8 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/63-03-25d