24/8/77
Let me thank you for your interesting photograms, dear Mr Wragge. It requires to know that both cards belong to you. It is kind of you to offer to dry plants for me, should you ever visit a locality in the backregions of India, known not to have been visited by botanists or collectors,1 then pick up any plant, and send the parcels by post, the specimens closely packed and reduced to small flowering & fruiting branches, as advised in the enclosed circular.2 Your honored name would of course be quoted along with the plants, in publications emanating therefrom.
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Best compl. to Mr Ingleby
Please cite as “FVM-77-08-24,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/77-08-24