12/3/82
Let me offer my best felicitations, dear Dr Beccari, to your matrimonial happiness. May you enjoy through a long series of years all the gladness, which domestic life brings about; and may thus your celebrated name descend also to future generations.
You may be surprised that I did not yet send you any plants in return for the Sumatran collection; but the International Exhibition1 gave us heavy extra work here for more than a year. In this work I had as one of the Commissioners and in three sections as Juror (including the toilsome chemical division) to share, and thus my Departmental work came so much into arrear, that it will be some time yet, before I can resume interchanges with any botanic Museums. But so soon, as I can find leisure, to make up duplicate collections, you shall have a share.
Pray remember me to Signor d’Albertis,2 and let me remain
regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.
Please cite as “FVM-82-03-12a,” 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/82-03-12a