I am not altogether sure, dear Mr Bevan, whether I expressed my admiration of your heroic conduct in bringing—in the face of so much peril and almost superhuman toil of yourself and your brave little band—your telling enterprise to so successful and safe a conclusion.
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The best reward is its accomplishment, and that will ever remain an historic fact!
Ellipsis in published version.
Letter not found. The text given here is from Bevan (1888), p. iii. It is introduced by 'Letter from Baron Sir Ferd. Von Mueller, President Royal Geographical Society of Australia, to Mr. Theodore Bevan, F.R.G.S, &c, after the latter's return from his fifth Expedition (dated Melbourne, 10 February, 1888)'. The expedition was to rivers of British New Guinea opening into the Gulf of Papua. Emphases may have been added by Bevan.
Please cite as “FVM-88-02-10,” 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