If at any time I […] get some little Eucalyptus-seeds from you there (named) I should be thankful; some correspondents in tropical countries have asked for it; your species do mostly not occur at Port Phillip.1
Regardfully you[r]
Ferd. von Mueller
Vic.
MS is a fragment of a letter. It is listed in the Fryer Library as 'Fragment of letter, signed by von Mueller, to correspondent unknown, [n.d.]' but the item number is within the range of items from M to Henry Tryon (i.e. M to H. Tryon, 18 September 1893 (in this edition as 93-09-18a) and M to H. Tryon, 16 August 1893). It is therefore probable that when the Father Edward Leo Hayes Papers collection within the Fryer Library was being assembled, the fragment was obtained from the same source as the known items M sent to Tryon. The correspondent is accordingly given here as Tryon, but it is far from certain. If he was the addressee, the fragment must be dated after 1882 when Tryon came to Qld, and most likely after he was appointed to the Queensland Museum in 1883. The earliest date of specimens in MEL collected by Tryon is June 1883. The earliest likely date the fragment would have been written is thus 1883, and it is dated accordingly.
Please cite as “FVM-83-00-00o,” 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