20 April [18]701
Sir
[...] of the Borough Council [...] to make application for whatever shrubs you can spare for the purpose of planting in the Warrnambool Botanical Gardens.
I [...] and beg to inform you that Mr Chas. Walker of [29] Market Street will make all necessary arrangements for packing and shipment2
I have the honor to be
Sir
Your obedient Servant
Henry T. Read
Town Clerk
Dr F. Mueller
Botanical Gardens
Melbourne
editorial addition.
Walker not further identified, but in 1870 the Melbourne agent for the Warrnambool Steam-Packet Company, owners of Edina, was J. C. Anderson, 29 Market Street, and he may have been an employee.
Read wrote to Walker on 20 April 1870 instructing him to obtain plants from M for the Warrnambool Botanic Garden, and to make all arrangements for their shipment on Edina (letter press copy book 4, p. 130). See also M to Read, 24 April 1870.
Parts of the text are indecipherable in the letter press copy.
Please cite as “FVM-70-04-20,” 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