Newyears day
1880.
Let me offer to you, dear Corporal Jones, my best felicitation on the new year, may this new one be to you & your family one replete with happiness. I have not heard of you for a long while; perhaps you have been far away. Is there anything I can send you; and how have the various seeds grown, which I from time to time forwarded? When lately I looked over my W.A. accounts, I found that a few £ more were in [the]1 bank than my notes showed. Did you perhaps never cash my little cheque, or is otherwise this still due to you if so I will forward a post office order for it.
Regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.
I often think with pleasurable recollection of our joint travels,2 and should like it very much to be once more out with you. Who now occupies Dirk Hartog's Island?3
Please cite as “FVM-80-01-01,” 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/80-01-01