Melbourne bot. Garden
20/9/71
At last, dear Mr Fletcher, I redeem my promise of sending for your Municipal Institution's Garden the greenhouse plants desired by you.1 The sending was not deferred from inattention, but because the very reduced means of my department and other difficulties rendered it since two years quite impossible to carry out even all the urgent work. Hence anything not of absolute urgency had to stand over.
If your Council has it in its power to send me a truck full of white Quartz in large pieces I should feel very grateful.
With best regards
Baron Ferd von Mueller
Neither the 'promise' nor a list of desired plants has been found. The file includes a note: 'Mr Mallach | Acknowledge with thanks | GAF | Baron Ferd. Von Mueller'.
Please cite as “FVM-71-09-20b,” 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