Melbourne bot. Garden
24/1/67
Accept my best thanks, dear Capt Standish, for the prompt courteous & obliging manner in which you effected the exchange of the horses for my department. The animal selected by Mr Hare is an excellent one & I feel much gratified with its acquisition.
Let me know of any requirements for your Department in planting at the latter part of April, so that you may be supplied before the great demand on my nurseries will take place in May, and probably you will be able to have any police ground prepared by that time.1
I remain, dear Captain
your regardful
Ferd. Mueller
MS annotation by Standish on 28 January 1867: 'Forward to Mr Hare whose attention is most particularly called to the concluding portion, so that he may know when to make application for any shrubs &c we may require'. Hare replied on 29 January 1867: 'Noted and returned to the C Commissioner I will not forget Dr Muellers promise and apply for the shrubs in proper time.'
Please cite as “FVM-67-01-24,” 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