From David Jones1    26 July 1881

Port Mackay

Queensland

July 26, 1881

Dear Baron Mueller,

I have gathered a few plants on Flat Top Island, off Port Mackay, within the tropics, which I shall esteem it a great favour if you will name. The beans saved the lives of a shipwrecked crew a few years ago.

Very truly yours

D Jones

 

Baron Mueller

 

(Please address Post Office, Port Mackay.2

1
MS annotation by M: 'Answ 5/8/81'. Letter not found.
2
See also D. Jones to M, 6 January 1879 (in this edition as 79-01-06a).

Please cite as “FVM-81-07-26,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/81-07-26