To William Hemsley   24 July 1882

24/7/82

 

This day, dear Mr Hemsley, I received the excellent publication, elaborated by you in elucidation of Miss Marianne North's paintings.1 This descriptive index must still more heighten the value of the superb collection, prepared under so much toil and at so great an expenditure by that gifted and generous Lady. Will you kindly present my compliments to her and say that I with great pleasure remember her visit and often think of her beautiful pictures.2 Accept also my best thanks for the kind allusion to myself in this new publication of yours.3

Is there anything, that I can do for you here?

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 
1
Hemsley (1882).
2
M mentions North’s having visited him in M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 26 November 1880, and mentions a visit ‘this evening’ in M to J. Hooker, 15 January 1881.
3
In the entry for painting 580, ‘Fernshaw, Victoria’, Hemsley wrote ‘The white Gum tree in the middle distance was measured by Baron Mueller, and found to be 365 feet high; the Tree Fern in the foreground was forty feet high.’ (p. 107).

Please cite as “FVM-82-07-24a,” 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/82-07-24a