To Marcus Clarke   7 March 1871

Melbourne bot. Garden

7/3/71

Sir

In reply to your note of the 20 Febr.1 I beg to inform you, that the charges for printed labels for woods will be as follows

12

copies of one

1/

25

"

"

"

1/2d

50

"

"

"

1/6d

at Mess Mason Firth & M'Cutcheon

12

copies of one

1/

25

"

"

"

1/2d2

50

"

"

"

1/7½d

at Mess Clarson Messina & Co

The number of different woodspecimens yet to be printed is say about 90, therefore that number of labels of different kinds have to be printed and I would suggest 50 copies of each.3

Obediently

Ferd von Mueller

 

Marcus Clarke Esq

&c &c &c

 
See M. Clarke to M, 20 February 1871.
M has made an arithmetical mistake; the quoted price for this number is 1/2¼d (see n. 3).

MS accompanied by two estimates.

(1)

12 — 1/.

25 — 1/2

50 — 1/6

Mason Firth & McCutcheon estimate for Printed Labels.


(2)

MEMO:

Clarson, Massina, & Co,

PRINTERS.

72 Little Collins Street East,

MELBOURNE


Melbourne………………………1869

To

Dr Mueller


12 ea 8 varieties8/-

25 " 8 " 9/6

50 " 8 " 13/.

that is 8 labels in a sheet

CM

Please cite as “FVM-71-03-07a,” 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/71-03-07a