Queenscliff1 16/9/67
Sir
I have the honor to solicit that you will be pleased to sanction the expenditure additionally of fifty pounds Sterling for earthworks, garden arrangement & more extended gravelling at Toorack.2 The original estimate was three hundred pounds3 but only one hundred has been expended yet. I venture to draw your attention to the fact, that the Duke of Edinburgh may possibly arrive already in the beginning of next month & that thus the early completion of this work at Toorack appears to me very recommendable
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
your very obedient
Ferd. Mueller
The honorable Jam. Macph. Grant
&c &c &c4
Vic.
The Governor's residence.
The estimate made in M to J. Grant, 9 August 1867 (in this edition as 67-08-09a) of £297:1: 4 was regarded as an overestimate, see notes to that letter. Notes to M to D. Gillies, 29 June 1868, rehearse the background to this letter.
M was informed by W. Wardell, Inspector General of Public Works, on 26 September 1867 that M. Hervey, Commissioner of Public Works, was 'unable to spare anything out of the sum granted for new works under this Department as it is not only exhausted but already overdrawn'.
See also E. Agg to M, 31 March 1869 (in this edition as 69-03-31a), which is in the same file.
Please cite as “FVM-67-09-16,” 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