From Thomas Purves   2 March 1866

2nd March 1866

 

Sir,

At a meeting of the Victorian Horticultural Improvement Society held on Monday evening 26th ult.1 I was instructed to enquire if you will be kind enough to furnish the Society with duplicate models of what fruits you have prepared for the Paris Exhibition.2

I have thge honor to be, Sir,

Your obedient Servant

Thos Purves, Hon Secy3

1
At the meeting of the Society on 26 February 1866, it was agreed that since the Society 'had liberally responded to the request of Dr Mueller for specimens of Fruits to be modelled, the Secretary be instructed to write to Dr Mueller requesting that Copies of the models be supplied to this Society'.
2
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1867.
3
See M to T. Purves, 5 March 1866.

Please cite as “FVM-66-03-02d,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-03-02d