To Augustus Tulk   23 March 1869

Melb. bot Garden

23/3/69.

 

It will afford me much pleasure, dear Mr Tulk, to respond to the request of the trustees of the Library and Art Museum, to send my Knight insignia of the Orders of which I am a member to the forth coming art exhibition,1 if a ticket can be placed along with these decorations stating they they have been exhibited by special request.

Should, what is not likely, an occasion arise for my using one or more of these insignia, I must stipulate for the permission to remove such for a day.

It appears to me not necessary to bring these decorations until the Exhibition actually shall be opened. If for any other orders-insignia a case will be provided by the trustees, then mine might be provided in the same way. Otherwise I shall be placed under the special necessity of having a case made. I enclose, as required, a list of those of my decorations,2 which at present are available for the exhibition.

With much regards

Ferd. von Mueller, M.D.3

The Art Treasures Exhibition, 'a vast variety of pictures, curiosities, and articles of vertu, lent by the owners to the Trustees of the Public Library', opened on 29 March 1869 and closed in mid-year.
List not found.
MS annotation probably by Tulk: 'From Doctor von Mueller Ansered Case will be provided and orders can be removed for any ceremony'. Tulk's letter to M not found.

Please cite as “FVM-69-03-23,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/69-03-23