To Georg Neumayer   21 June 1864

21./6/64

Verehrter Herr!

Erlauben Sie mir Ihnen bei Ihrem Scheiden von Australien mein Bildchen als ein geringes Andenkens-Zeichen anzubieten, und mir das Ihre für die Sammlung der mir befreundeten grossen Zeitgenossen zu erbitten.

Der Ihre

Ferd. Mueller.

 

Herrn Professor Neumayer

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21 June 1864

Dear Sir,

At your departure from Australia permit me to offer you my little photograph1 as a small token of remembrance, and to ask for yours for my collection of great contemporaries who are my friends.

Your

Ferd. Mueller.

 

Professor Neumayer

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1
An album of photographs presented to Neumayer at the time of his departure from Melbourne is in the Neumayer-Archiv, Museum für Naturkunde, Bad Dürkheim. It includes a copy of the photograph of M published in Pescott (1982), p. 34.

Please cite as “FVM-64-06-21,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/64-06-21