From Thaddäus Peithner von Lichtenfels1    17 July 1863

 

His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty has, according to His high Cabinet Decret dated July 16th 1863 been graciously pleased to confer on the University Professor and Director of the botanical Gardens, Melbourne Australia

Dr Ferdinand Mueller

the knight Cross of the most honorable Order of Franz Joseph.

The Chancelery of the Order has now the honor to transmit the corresponding Decoration with the request, that the enclosed Revers in regard to the future restitution of said Decoration to the Treasury of the Order may be signed and dated and remitted to the Chancelery2

signed Baron von Lichtenfels

Chancelor of the Order

 

Vienna July 17th 18633

 
1
MS appears to be a copy prepared at the Austrian Embassy in London; see R. Apponyi to M, 4 August 1863 (in this edition as 63-08-04a), written in a very similar hand and signed by Apponyi who was the Ambassador in London.
2
M duly signed the document and returned it to Vienna; see M to the Chancellery of the Franz Joseph Order, 20 October 1863.
3
Below the date there appears the stamp of the Franz Joseph Order’s Chancellery. See also M to C. Darling, 12 December 1863.

Please cite as “FVM-63-07-17,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/63-07-17