15/7/68
Private.
Last evening, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, I had occasion to walk with two members of Parliament through the Yarra reserve between punt-road and the Cricket ground, when one of the Gentlemen almost got hurt in coming in contact with a large limb of a tree stretching across one of the tracks near the Garden-Railway station. I did not pass through the reserve for a very long time and was thus not aware of the circumstance otherwise I would have ventured to have brought it under your kind notice earlier. Very likely any poor man would cut away dead wood and branches, obstructing passages, for the value of the wood. I shall not fail to lay in a few days a report on the progress of the Yarra-plantations before you.
With very best regards your
Ferd. von. Mueller.
Please cite as “FVM-68-07-15,” 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 20 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/68-07-15