Park Street
Septr 1st 1863
Dear Sir
The memorial of certain inhabitants of South Yarra & Prahran praying for the reopening of the direct line of footway from the Park St entrance of the Botanic reserve to the Princes Bridge road,1 having been intrusted to me for presentation to the Chief Secretary; I as their deputed representative for meeting you on the subject, agree to the line of road as arranged by us this morning.2
I remain
&c
yours truly
T. Lightfoot
Dr Mueller
See Residents of South Yarra, Toorak and Prahran to J. McCulloch, 13 July 1863 (in this edition as M63-07-13), and M to J. McCulloch, 18 July 1863 and note thereto.
On 18 August 1863, J. Perry wrote to T. Lightfoot: 'As you are fully acquainted with the wishes of the memorialists and are also well aware that they only desire what is perfectly reasonable in this matter, my friends & I will esteem it a favor if you will kindly act on our behalf to effect a satisfactory and final adjustment of it. Thanking you for the active part you have taken in furtherance of our mutual interests'. Lightfoot commented on 18 August: 'I propose that the gate leading through the Iron fence from the Park St entrance to the Botanical reserve be replaced; that a direct footway be made from it, to where the turnstile formerly stood — That the turnstile be replaced, & a footway or road be made from it to the brow of the hill leading into the new foot road from the Observatory & onto the road by the Immigrants home — this being done I think I may engage that the whole of the memorialists will keep to it & endeavour to prevent deviations'.
See also M to J. Moore, 4 September 1863.
Please cite as “FVM-63-09-01,” 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