Chief Secretary's office,
Melbourne, 5 Decr 1872
Sir
I have the honor to request that you will be good enough to return to this Office (with as little delay as possible)1 the correspondence mentioned in the margin,2 which was referred to you on the 3-10-71.3
I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
W. H. ODGERS.
The Director Botanic Gardens
(with as little delay as possible) underlined by hand.
Marginal annotation: Z11860 Director Bot. Gardens submits application from Mr Coleman Jacobs for permission to hold a concert in the Gardens'. See C. Jacobs to M, 14 September 1871, and M to C. Gavan Duffy, 18 September 1871.
MS annotation, on 6 December 1872, by M: 'Correspondence forwarded in accordance with request'.
Please cite as “FVM-72-12-05,” 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