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From Redmond Barry to Ferdinand von Mueller   20 May 1880

May [20 18]801

My Dear Baron Von Mueller

In reply to your letter of the 19th inst.2 I beg leave to say that the Trustees gratefully accept your offer of Copies of the Works you name.3

The accompanying monograph is the latest published.4

A new and complete Catalogue down to 1880 is in the press.5

Thanking you for this additional instance of your generous disposition towards the Library, I beg of you to believe me My Dear Baron

to be very faithfully yours

[...]6

President

1

editorial addition.

2

See M to R. Barry, 19 May 1880 (in this edition is 18-05-19b).

3

MS annotation: 'Mueller Baron von F. Index of the Plants of Linnaeus 1st Ed. | Wittsteins Chemistry of Plants.'

4

Melbourne Public Library (1865)?

5

Public Library of Victoria (1880).

6

The space for the signature is blank on the file copy, but Barry was President of the Trustees.

Please cite as “FVM-80-05-20b,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/80-05-20b