To Robert Ramsay   10 November 1874

Tuesday1

 

Would you do me the favor, dear Mr. Ramsay, to spare me some day soon a few moments of your time. I am very anxious to consult you respecting additions, absolutely necessary, to the Museum Room, which the hon. Mr. Anderson on your wish would most likely cause to be effected out of the general building vote. For this purpose I was particularly anxious of your ministerial visit, so that you might see, that I have no proper space for the continually increasing collections.

I am further desirous to recommend, that a remittance of £120 be made by next post to Mr. Michie for Dr. Sonder in Hamburg for an other instalment of his collections out of such vote, as you may wish to grant to my Department. That the vote is to be increased by several hundred £2 I have indirectly learnt, and thank you for this act of kindness, which will enable me to rent a private house with cool rooms before the greatest summer heat sets in.

Very regardfully

your

Ferd. von Mueller.3

1
Letter annotated as having been received on 10 November, which was a Tuesday.
2
See notes to M to R. Ramsay, 10 October 1874 (in this edition as 74-10-10a).
3
Annotation by Ramsay: ‘After the session closes R R 12/11/74’. See T. Ware to M, 14 November 1874.

Please cite as “FVM-74-11-10,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/74-11-10