20th Decr [188]71
Dear Sir
It will give me much pleasure to obtain for you the flower & fruit of the plant used as tobacco by the Charlotte Waters natives.2 Before the receipt of your reply I had already told Ryan to obtain these further specimens, & also a collection of other plants for you.3
Please command me at any time when there is anything you specially want from our Interior as my men are frequently in comparatively unknown country & will look out for any plants [&c]
With much respect
I am faithfully yours
James W. Jones
Baron Sir F von Mueller K.C.M.G. F.R.G.S. &c &c
Melbourne
editorial addition.
SA. See J. Jones to M, 14 December 1887 (in this edition as 87-12-14a), enclosing a letter from Jones's foreman at Charlotte Waters, E. Ryan, describing the way the local Aboriginal people used the plant of which he had collected the specimen that Jones then forwarded to M.
M's reply to Jones's earlier letter has not been found.
Please cite as “FVM-87-12-20,” 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