9/8/69
I am sorry to say, dear Mr Fitzgibbon, that the toll keeper, at the St Kilda road still has his fowl at large1 and that the birds have successively ruined a number of young trees. It is strange, that such a person should dare to set all public authority at defiance.
The only way, allow me to remark, is thus to deal with such people summarily, in including in the licence a clause, to keep no domestic animals at all on the spot.
With best regards.
Ferd. von Mueller
See M to E. FitzGibbon, 13 July 1869.
Please cite as “FVM-69-08-09,” 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