Melbourne bot Garden
21/3/71
I hope, dear Dr Hooker, you received the giant specimen of the Todea by the Norfolk all right. I did not charge you more than ten pounds, simply because that was the sum mentioned by you as to be expended on it; but lest you should think that this covered all the costs, I would remark, that the Litherage1 for this one was £1" 3/ -" besides railway expenses from town to Port &c &c, in all several pounds more. Of course I do not expect any more repayment then the £10 ",2 which please pay to my London Agents according to my last month's letter.3 Besides if it had not been that several orders for Todeas were simultaneously effected, you could not have got yours for less then £50 - -
I hope you will have it weighed, also that it will be exhibited at the great Horticultural Show, for which you are now preparing in London.
With best regard
Ferd von Mueller
Todea
lighterage. The form 'litherage', although not in the OED, can be found in some 17th century documents and survives in some forms of English, e.g., West African and Indian.
See J. Hooker to M, 13 November 1870.
Of course ... month's letter is an annotation with its intended position marked with asterisks. See M to J. Hooker, 9 February 1872 (in this edition as 71-02-09b).
MS annotation: 'Recvd 23/5/71'.
Please cite as “FVM-71-03-21,” 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