12/10/87.
Last evening, dear Mr Macdonald, I received the enclosed kind letter from the Rev. Mr Lawes.1 Altho' it does not contain anything new, I like to send a copy of it to the Herald this morning, if you approve of it the other papers having had already similar accounts and telegrams.2
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
Presumably W. Lawes to M, 21 September 1887.
An article in the Herald (Melbourne), 15 October 1887, p. 2, made some of the points in Lawes's letter to M, but no mention of the information's having been supplied by M was made. Other Melbourne papers carried a range of stories, often quoting telegrams from Lawes, Cuthbertson or others to M or to the Royal Geograhical Society of Australasia. See, for example, Argus, 6 October 1887, p. 11, and Age, 3 October 1887, p. 4. There was a longer account based on an interview with Cuthbertson in the Argus from 'our correspondent' in Brisbane spread over successive iusues (Argus, 11 October 1887, p. 6 and Argus, 12 October 1887, p. 8).
Please cite as “FVM-87-10-12,” 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