Ivanhoe Cottage
Robert St. Brisbane
Dec 28th 1877
Baron F. von Mueller
Dear Sir
Let me wish you a happy new year and hope that your trip to Western Australia has been beneficial to your health and also to science have you brought any seed of plants in any way allied to the Pituri? Dr Bancroft before leaving1 wished me to ask you if you obtained any to let him have a few I have been going through my specimens of the phyllodineous Acacia and have by this mail sent you a set where I had pods & flowers I have sent them but when I am out I have to take anything I can get so you will often find them imperfect I should be however obliged if you would at your leisure go through them and correct where wrong and if possible from the specimens name the rest I have no better specimens of Eucalypts than those I sent The lemon scented Ironbark from the Palmer River gives a beautiful extract my daughter used some the other day to flavour a custard and it was beautiful both for flavour & perfume. I will enclose a small packet in this of the seed it would likely stand your climate
Ever your obliged
F. M. Bailey
Acacia
Eucalyptus
Please cite as “FVM-77-12-28,” 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