[Baron Von Mueller wrote enclosing a letter to him from Mr. J. Forrest respecting the official representation of Western Australia at the Exhibition.1 Mr. Forrest desired Baron Von Mueller to bring under the notice of the commissioners the desirability of reserving space for Western Australia pending the decision of the Government of that colony to be represented.]
Letter not found.
Letter not found. The text given here is from 'Representation of Western Australia' in a report of the meeting of the Commission of the Melbourne Centennial International Exhibition held on 3 January 1888, Age, 4 January 1888, p. 5. M's letter is dated to January 1888 as the last date it could have been written. It could however have been written in December 1887, before Forrest and his wife left Melbourne on the Massilia, which cleared out of Melbourne on 29 December (Leader, 31 December 1887, p. 31).
Please cite as “FVM-88-01-00a,” 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