To William Henry Archer   1 October 1870

1/10/70.

 

I take the liberty, dear Mr Archer, to send the two enclosed letters from Mr Dallachy for your own perusal,1 so that you may see, whether he is contented with his lot or shows reason of complaint. I can send you a host of letters written by the old Gentleman in the same strain but these two came yesterday, as the envelopes show.2

I will send old Mr Dallachy also one of the printed forms of the Civil Service Commission,3 but it will take at the least two months before they will be here back again and perhaps we have to wait double the time, as there is no regular communication to Rockingham's Bay.4

A number of my employees have put their heads together about filling up the printed forms. So the commission cannot receive the answers from all of my men as independent individual expressions of opinion.5

Your regardful

Ferd. von Mueller

1
Letters not found.
2
M was questioned on Dallachy's role and M's treatment of him by the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the state of the Public Service and working of the Civil Service Act, when he was examined on 4 September 1870 (see questions 1236 to 1249, 'Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the public service’, in Victoria. Parliamentary Papers. Votes and Proceedings of the Legislative Assembly, 1873, vol. 2 (No. 10), p. 42.
3
For the forms, see Return No. 1 in Appendix E to the Royal Commission report.
4
Qld.
5
John Waters [i.e. Watters], representing 'all the workmen in the gardens' (question 11258) was examined on 7 June 1872 (p. 419), and requested that the workmen 'may be placed upon the schedule and recognised as public servants' (question 11259).

Please cite as “FVM-70-10-01,” 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 25 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/70-10-01