To Alfred Deakin   28 March 1886

Melbourne,

28 March 1886.

The honorable Alfred Deakin &c

Chief Secretary.

 

Sir.

I have the honor to renew my solicitation, now towards the lapse of the finance-year, that I may be allowed to continue my work as Gov. Botanist for the Colony Victoria, as I feel well able to carry on the duties, devolving on me in that position also for the coming year. Indeed I should regard it a special mark of consideration, if so long as my mental faculties, my visual powers and my physical strength are lasting, I may continue to conduct and direct the labors of the Department created by myself, and in which not only my worldly means are sunk, but also the best years of my whole life, and which has tended to advance so largely the scientific and industrial interests of this country.

I have the honor to be

Sir your obedient

and humble servant

Ferd. von Mueller,

Gov. Botanist.1

M's letter was 'submitted & recommended' by the Under-Secretary, T. Wilson, on 30 March 1886, and approved on 1 April. A letter reporting the approval was sent to the Public Service Board on 6 April. See also T. Wilson to M, 30 June 1886 (in this edition as 86-06-30b), and M to T. Wilson, 1 July 1886 (in this edition as 86-07-01a).

Please cite as “FVM-86-03-28,” 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 28 March 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-03-28