25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.
Feby 21 [1873]
My dear Sir
I write a few lines in great haste as I am very busy — in the first place to express my great regret at your encreased troubles and the renewed restrictions as to your scientific expenditure and my sincere hope that you will get the better of all these annoying difficulties — and in the next place to say that I find the terrestrial orchideae cut down more than I expected and that I shall have to insert in the present sixth volume at least the whole of the Monocotyledons with inferior ovaries and trust that your specimens are on their way — I have begun printing and already corrected proofs of two sheets but none are printed off yet — I am printing slowly but hope to send you a sheet or two by next mail
Yours very sincerely
George Bentham
Baron v Mueller
Orchideae
Please cite as “FVM-73-02-21,” 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 24 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/73-02-21