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From Ferdinand von Mueller to Alfred Deakin   28 Sep 1887

Melbourne,

28 Sept. 1887.

The honorable Alfred Deakin, M.L.A.,

Chief Secretary

&c &c

Sir.

I have the honor to solicit your favorable consideration of the byefollowing application, submitted by Mr T. Minchin, junior Assistant in the botanic Museum, for the usual annual furlough.1 Though he was absent through illness and other causes for a few days during the year, I would recommend, that the full three weeks leave be allowed him, as he will devote the whole time in the interest of the Department to a botanical collecting tour in the Murray-River region.2

I have the honor to be, Sir,

your obedient servant

Ferd. von Mueller.

1

See J. Minchin to M, 28 March 1887.

2

M's request was approved on 30 September and he promptly returned the file 'with best thanks'. See also M to A. Deakin, 17 October 1887 (in this edition as 87-10-17c).

Please cite as “FVM-87-09-28,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/87-09-28