March 12 /83.
My dear Baron
I lose no time in acknowledging the receipt of your despatches that have this morning come to hand.
1. I will do as you wish about Mr Tate's Certificate1
2. We will do out best with the Begonia?2 the tufts of hairs are not characteristic of Begoniaceae. I fear it is monstrous.
3. The Chiloglottis tubers arrived quite dead; the box smashed & sand rolling out.3
Pray excuse [mean] length of letter but am just now excessively busy.
Very sincerely yr
Jos. D. Hooker.
Begonia
Begoniaceae
Chiloglottis
Please cite as “FVM-83-03-12,” 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 29 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/83-03-12