22 May /66
Sir,
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of yr letter of 18th inst.
I write to inform you that on Tuesday next, the 29th, application will be made, at 9 o'clock, by a person holding the proper authority from the Warrnambool Boro' Council to receive the plants wh may be allotted to them. The plants will be sent here by the steamer leaving Melbourne that day, & will be planted as soon as they arrive.1
I have &c
H. L.
Dr Mueller
Botl Gardens
Melb.
On the same day, Laurie wrote to G. Lempriere in Melbourne, asking him to take the necessary steps to receive the plants. Lempriere replied on 29 May 1866 that he had been to the Melbourne Botanic Gardens that morning 'but, notwithstanding that Dr Mueller told us — yesterday — they would be ready — the gardener who took 2 cases for them (at the request of Dr Mueller) was told, they could not be got ready, until Saturday next. If received then, they will go by the 'Edina' ' (Letters received, box 11).
Please cite as “FVM-66-05-22a,” 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