7/4/80.
Allow me to ask you, dear Mr Shillinglaw, whether perhaps you have on loan my copy of the English Edition of Labillardière (voyage in search of Lapérouse).1 I want the work for a note on Eucalypts (for my Euc. Atlas),2 and am missing it in my library. So in all probability one of my friends had it, but I cannot remember, with whom it may be. Excuse kindly my enquiry.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
MS annotation by Shillinglaw: 'No'. A copy of this work (Labillardière (1800a)) is in the library at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, presumably the copy listed in the catalogue in M to J. McCulloch, 30 September 1865.
B80.13.14; the first Decade of Eucalyptographia referring to Labillardière is Decade 5.
MS annotation by Shillinglaw: 'ansd 10.V.80'. Letter not found.
Please cite as “FVM-80-04-07,” 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