To Edmund FitzGibbon1    11 May 1866

11/5/66

Dear Mr Fitzgibbon

Have you be so kind to prepare a short notification to the Inspector General of public works or myself respecting the approaches to the garden bridge? Bear kindly in mind, that every day loss of dry weather will render the raising of the mass of soil needed more difficult. I believe only your notification of assent is wanted & the contracts will be accepted.

your regardful

Ferd Mueller.2

1
See also M to the Mayor of Melbourne, 7 May 1866, and M to the Chairman, Public Works Committee, 15 May 1866.
2
On 11 May the City Surveyor, John Reilly, wrote to the Mayor of Melbourne: 'Having examined the plans of approach from footbridge over Yarra; I have the honor to inform you, that it would be injudicious to permit the approach to be made as suggested by Dr Mueller inasmuch as he simply proposes to run a narrow curved embankment from the end of the Bridgeway through the Botanical Gardens, on to Anderson Street, thereby embanking a portion of the Street, without filling up Sand Street from the River Southward, to meet the required drainage and formation as originally intended. | I could not therefore recommend any interference with the present level of the Street unless the whole of its width was formed to a proper incline to carry off the Storm water.' (No. 1566, unit 732, VPRS 3181, Public Record Office, Victoria).

Please cite as “FVM-66-05-11,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-05-11