22/4/81.
This day I learn, dear Mr Odgers, that the Russian Naturalist Maclay will be returning to Melbourne in a few days, so that it would be best to defer sending the books, which you kindly procured for him, to Sydney.1 I called at the Australian Club on Wednesday last for him, but was told, that he had gone to Sydney the week before and that it was very doubtful whether he would come back again.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller2
See T. Wilson to M, 20 April 1881. Miklouho-Maclay was reported as having passed through Albury, NSW, by rail en route to Melbourne on 26 April 1881 (Argus, 27 April 1881, p. 5). However, a set of publications was sent, apparently to Sydney, for Miklouho-Maclay on 23 April, presumably before the present letter was received, and acknowledged on his behalf in a letter from the Imperial Russian Consul there (E. Paul to G. Berry, 25 May 1881, U81/2810, unit 1271, VPRS 3991/P, Public Record Office, Victoria).
See also T. Wilson to M, 10 May 1881.
Please cite as “FVM-81-04-22,” 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