Friday1
For the sake of my health, dear Mr Shillinglaw, I intend to do a few weeks field-work and shall be away at the middle of next week. Could I revise before any notes biographically concerning me?2
I read with great interest in the "Sydney mail" your notes on the disinterment of the long buried documents emanating from Mr Grimes's discoveries.3
Regardfully
Ferd. von Mueller.
Letter dated to 28 September, the Friday before Thursday 4 October when M was planning to leave for WA (see M to G. Berry, 26 September 1877).
Shillinglaw was preparing biographical notes for the forthcoming work, Men of the time; see M to J. Shillinglaw, September 1877 (in this edition as 77-09-00a).
The Sydney mail, 22 September 1877, p. 376, carried a report of Shillinglaw's discovery in the colonial archives in Sydney of Charles Grimes's journal and chart of his exploration of Port Phillip Bay and the lower reaches of the Yarra River in 1803. The journal is included in Shillinglaw (1879), pp. 15-30.
Please cite as “FVM-77-09-28,” 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