1/1/73
Baron Von Mueller
Director Botanic Garden
Melbourne.
Dear Sir
I hope you will be so kind as to allow me my salary for the 151 days that I was ill for conseder I have Sundays duty to attend too for which I receive no pay and I frequently have to worke before and after time and having 4 houses and the propagating Department to attend to it must be acknowledge that my occupation is not so healthy as the ordenary garden work for I am always subject to heats and colds.
I remain
your obedient Servant
D Coller2
Please cite as “FVM-73-01-01,” 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