To Thomas Wilson   21 August 1886

Saturday

 

I think it best right, dear Mr Wilson, that I should take officially notice of the remarks, made against the "Key" by a Correspondent of the Argus of this day;1 and I should be very much obliged if you would beg of our honorable Chief, that this explanation of mine2 may be allowed to go to the Argus for publication. I may remark, that a very appreciative reference to this part of the Key appeared in the London Gardeners Chronicle lately.3

With regardful remembrance

your

Ferd. von Mueller

 

Excuse, that the letter was no4 rewritten; I am so busy for the outgoing P & O mail.

1
Argus, Saturday 21 August 1886, p. 5.
2
See M to A. Deakin, 21 August 1886.
3
Gardeners' Chronicle, 12 June 1886, p. 760: 'This little book, while unpretending in appearance, will prove one of the most generally useful of the Baron's publications, and one that no one but himself could have produced so successfully'.
4
not?

Please cite as “FVM-86-08-21a,” 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 19 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/86-08-21a