Melbourne
25/3/74
Allow me the pleasure, reverend and venerable friend, to send your kind Lady as a slight token of my appreciation of your manyfold acts of kindness a small souvenir. It is so trifling, that you cannot well refuse the acceptance of it. The whole is Victorian, both material and workmanship. The Reverend Dr Bleasdale, a learned oryctologyst here, has aided me in the selection.1 I got it only today, the mail day; hence I could not get added a small inscription inside; but should you desire it, that might be effected readily in London or in your town.2
Regardfully ever your
Ferd. von Mueller
Please cite as “FVM-74-03-25,” 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