17/5/83.
I feel much honored, dear Capt Lepatourel, with His Excellency's invitation, to celebrate Her Majesty's Birthday at the Governor's hospitable […]1
Letter incomplete. Unless this was a draft, the note was never sent; the paper appears to have been used later as scrap to record specimen details, because on the reverse is written 'South Queensland 1885 Mrs Spencer', while an accompanying card records the same information and also 'Elmena Springs | Angophora'.
Please cite as “FVM-83-05-17b,” 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