Thursday
If not prevented by unforeseen circumstances, dear Mr Shillinglaw, I will be happy to attend at the Bateman-ceremony;1 but you know yourself, that in a public Department we are never quite masters of our time.
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
The ceremony was the unveiling of a memorial to John Batman, held on Saturday 3 June 1882. The bound volume of materials relating to the memorial includes many other replies to the invitation to attend that are dated 31 May or 1, 2 or 3 June.
Please cite as “FVM-82-06-01a,” 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