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From Ferdinand von Mueller to John Moore   21 Dec 1866

Melbourne bot Garden

21/12/66.

Sir

In reply to your letter, dated 18 Dec,1 I have the honor to inform you, that I have secured a copy of the National Dictionary2 for my establishment by private purchase. But having received no answer to my letter of the 16 Nov.,3 in which I pointed out that no fund whatever was left available for the incidental expenditure during the latter part of the year, I once more solicit from the honor. the Chief Secretary, that the sum of fourty pounds Sterling (£40.- .-) may be placed on the supplementary estimates, in order that the outlays which I have now for many weeks have been forced to make for the establishment may next year be refunded.

I have the honor to be,

Sir,

your very obedient servant

Ferd. Mueller

The Undersecretary

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1

Letter not found.

2

i.e. Butler & Brooke, National directory of Victoria (1866).

3

M to J. Moore, 16 November 1866. See also M to J. McCulloch, 1 February 1867.

Please cite as “FVM-66-12-21,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/66-12-21