Melbourne bot Garden
19/9/68.
In reply to your kind letter of yesterday, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, I beg to inform you, that Mr Fuller at last responded so far to my request as to getting his boat-shade painted; and so I trust, that he will erect also the small bit of fencing required to separate his area from the general reserved ground.1
I avail myself of this opportunity to express the great pleasure, which I felt, when I saw the flight of steps, which is recently constructed at the ground near Spring Street. I hope some day it will be possible, to form an inexpensive straight path from thence to the garden ferry, by which means so very many residents of East Melbourne would be accommodated with readier access to the botanic Garden
With regardful salutation
Ferd von Mueller
See M to E. FitzGibbon, 7 September 1968.
Please cite as “FVM-68-09-19,” 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