Melbourne
14/4/77.
The honorable the Chief Secretary
Sir
I have the honor to solicit, that an advance may be made to my Department for £50, to enable me out of the new years estimate to pay for the woodengravings required for the schoolbook on native plants,1 now under the press.2
I have the honor to be,
Sir, your obedient
Ferd. von Mueller.
B77.08.01.
On 20 April 1877, MacPherson minuted: 'Can the Treasurer spare this sum?'. Receipt of the file at the Treasury was recorded on 21 April. On 22 June 1877 the Under Treasurer, E. Symonds, noted: 'The advance asked for not having been granted the papers are returned to the Honorable the Chief Secretary'.
Please cite as “FVM-77-04-14a,” 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