From Edmund FitzGibbon1    17 July 1868

[Melbourne,]2 17th July 1868 —

Private

 

My dear Dr Mueller

If you will keep bad company3 how can you expect other than to come to grief? Seriously I thank you for calling my attention to the impediment I have directed Mr Felstead to see to it and to get me an offer for any dead wood lying about the paddock or requiring removal —

Respecting the cost of ferrying the willow cuttings across the river, if when you are in town you will kindly call I will get the money which you have disbursed repaid to you. The Committee of the City Council to whom I mentioned the matter considered that we should not be justified in claiming the gratuitous services of the boatman who has charge of the baths —

Yours very faithfully

E. G. FitzGibbon

1
This letter is probably a draft. See also M to E. FitzGibbon, 15 July 1868.
2
editorial addition.
3
such before bad and as that of Members of Parliament aftercompany deleted

Please cite as “FVM-68-07-17,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/68-07-17