Dear Dr Mueller
Enclosed I send a plant. Has the plant been discovered before or is this a discovery of my own or [have] I stumbled by chance on a new variety of a plant you [familiar] with please send me you opinion of this plant — is this a discovery or is it as old as the Hills enclosed a stamp
yours truly
N. Peter1
Dear Sir
To get the plant is so difficult that I can promise no seed —will try, is this a new plant or an old one.
Please send an answer
Y truly
N. P.
Enclosed a stamp. P.
Correspondent not further identified. No evidence of a specimen at MEL collected by 'N. Peter' was found in AVH (accessed 18 April 2023), thus no reliable date can be assigned on this basis. The item is dated to 1867 as the last date before M became 'von Mueller', but this assumes that the writer would have known of the significance of the change.
Please cite as “FVM-67-00-00k,” 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