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From Andrew Grant to Ferdinand von Mueller   24 July 1883

Hillston1 24 July 1883

Baron

Please allow me thank you very sincerely for the — to me very valuable present you were pleased to send me.2 I value it very highly; Firstly as coming from you; secondly as bearing your holograph which will some day be highly prized by the great & good; lastly & most of all for being in the most valued parts the product of your great, fertile and Phylanthropic Brain. I will try and notice it shortly in one of the local papers

A settler brought me the enclosed with a request that I should ask you whether it is poisonous. I think I have seen sheep eat it.

I have the honor to be

Baron

Your much obliged Servant

A. N. Grant

The Baron Von Mueller

Melbourne

1

NSW.

2

Probably B83.03.04. Although reviewed in the metropolitan NSW press, no review has been found in any newspaper published in the Riverina or other country NSW area.

3

MS found with a specimen of Zygophyllum apiculatum (MEL 564666). MS annotation by M: 'Answ 29/7/83'. Letter not found.

Please cite as “FVM-83-07-24,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/83-07-24