Melbourne, botanic Garden,
23 Nov. 66.
Sir Henry
I have the honor to submit to your Excellency a copy of the journal of the late Duncan M'Intyre, who was sent by the Ladies Committee of Victoria supported by the Governments and Inhabitants of this and the other colonies in search of the illfated Dr Leichhardt.1 Your Excellencys predecessor directed me, to transmit for the information of the Home Government any documents bearing on the progress of the Expedition, in as much as her Majesty had condescended to grace the Ladies enterprise with her Royal support.2 I may be allowed to remark, that the Expedition is reconstructed and that the party has received orders to search the country around the Gulf of Carpentaria at first, with a view of learning whether Dr Leichhardt perished there or passed the Gulf country in safety and further to ascertain, under what occurrences the descendents of Europeans seen between the Carpentaria tribes are there detained.
I have the honor to be
Your Excellencys
deeply obedient servant
Ferd. Mueller.
His Excellency
the hon. Sir H. Manners-Sutton, KC.B.
Please cite as “FVM-66-11-23a,” 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/66-11-23a