From George Bentham   15 May 1873

25, WILTON PLACE. S.W.

May 15 /73

My dear Sir

I have delayed writing to you till the last day in the hopes of being able to announce to you the arrival of the box of inferior ovary Monocotyledons — but the Hampshire is not yet among the arrivals1 In the mean time your Orchideae were sent off from Kew the week before last and I trust you will receive them safe — After them it will still require three or four hundred species to make up the volume so that after all I may be obliged to make the volume a short one. You will have received eight sheets2 I think and three or four more are in type.

You will have seen our friend Mr George Macleay3 He is much interested in your welfare and I hope you may find his friendly counsel of use in guiding you as to the best means of getting rid of your present annoyances

Yours ever truly

George Bentham

 

Baron Ferd v. Mueller

 

Orchideae

1
See M to G. Bentham, 1 March 1873 (in this edition as 73-03-01a).
2
Bentham (1863-78), vol. 6, sheets B – I, i.e. pp. 1-128.
3
Macleay had delivered to M a case of deciduous trees from Kew, see M to J. Hooker, 25 March 1873.

Please cite as “FVM-73-05-15a,” 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/73-05-15a