July 9/69
My dear Müller
I write in haste by this mail, & chiefly to say that your assistant Theodore1 called 2 days ago on his way to Germany, having had his money stolen from him in Liverpool. I advanced the needful to him, & showed him the Gardens. I am so glad that he could bring good news of your health. I congratulate you heartily on C.M.G. which I saw advertized in the Gazette.2
I will send you the Bilbergias & other Bromeliaceae at once.
The Somersetshire has arrived with box 50 all safe in May.3
Lichens sent to Leighton with extracts from your letter.
Books sent as requested & parcels to Leyden &c &c4
Anglesey not arrived.5
Bilbergia
Bromeliaceae
Theodor Mueller; see M to J. Hooker, 6 September 1870 (in this edition as 70-09-06a). Wilhelm Sonder also helped him when he reached Hamburg; see W. Sonder to F. Krauss, 31 July 1869 (in this edition as M69-07-31).
See Queen Victoria to M, 24 April 1869; the appointment was announced in a supplement to the London Gazette, 1 July 1869. For Hooker’s lobbying for Royal recognition for M, see Lucas (2013a), p. 19.
Sent by M on 6 March 1869 (Notebook recording despatch of plants for Flora Australiensis, RB MSS M44, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne).
See M to J. Hooker, 6 March 1869 (in this edition as 69-03-06a).
See M to J. Hooker, 17 April 1869 (in this edition as 69-04-17a).
MS embossed with seal of the 'Royal Gardens Kew'. Letter has no valediction.
Please cite as “FVM-69-07-09,” 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