Melbourne bot Garden
20/1/73.
This day, dear Dr Hector, I have got from my venerable friend, Dr Hampe of Blankenburg the names of the few Chatham Island Mosses of Mr Travers last collection It was better for me to place them in the hands of the oldest and greatest Bryologist of this time, than to work with insufficient museum material and insufficient Library works on them myself.
You are aware of the turmoils and anxieties, which I had to suffer for a long time in my Department, and which are far greater, than those of our friend Dr Hooker, from whom I have just a long letter to day. Be therefore charitable, when I have not yet finished the detail investigation of all the Chathamian plants of Travers second visit. They contain however but little real novelty. I trust to be transferred to the Chief Secretary's Department back where I was for 12 year, and then with renewed courage & free from the present encroachments on my position, I shall attend first of all to the Chatham plants.
your Ferd. von Mueller
I have given a list of the genera long ago.
Please cite as “FVM-73-01-20a,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/73-01-20a