Melbourne bot Garden,
23/12/66.
Sir Henry
The friendly interest evinced by your Excellency in my experiments to produce paper from raw material extensively available in Australia induces me to submit to your Excellency a few additional kinds prepared in my laboratory very recently.1
The admirable paper made of the leaves of Grass-trees (Xanthorrhoea) proves, that also the other Colonies and especially West Australia, where these remarkable plants abound, may take advantage of the results of my experiments, like other colonies, which will profit from the information now obtained on these new resources.
I have the honor to be, Sir Henry,
your most obedient & regardful
Ferd. Mueller
His Excellency
the Honorable Sir Henry Manners-Sutton, K.C.B.,
Governor of Victoria
&c &c &c2
See also M to H. Manners-Sutton, 15 December 1866 (in this edition as 66-12-15a).
MS annotation by Manners-Sutton: 'The Specimens together with a copy of this letter to be enclosed in last written Despatch which will require some verbal alterations'.
For a copy of this letter see National Archives, London, CO309/80, original correspondence, Victoria, despatches 1866, September to December, enclosure 3 to despatch no. 41, p. 340.
Please cite as “FVM-66-12-23,” 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