17/4/891
The "Brittania" was so full of goods, when about to start at the beginning of this month, dear Mr Dyer, that the Gymnoschoenus could not be taken;2 so it is shipped now by the P. & O. Steamer "Ballarat." By some inadvertance of an assistant of mine this case with the Gymnoschoenus was with another case, intended for France, consigned also to my London Agents, Mess. Watson & Scull, Thames Street. But as Kew has its own Shipping Agent, I have asked Mess. Watson & Scull, to hand the bill of lading to your Agent.3 Will you kindly make your arrangements also for the needful instruction.
Regardfully
your
Ferd. von Mueller.
What a lot of valuable plates again issued in or through Kew.4 - Your establishment does in this manner more than all others taken together!5
Gymnoschoenus
Date stamped: Royal Gardens Kew 27. May. 89. Annotated in ink by William Watson: 314-89 (i.e. entry number in Kew Inwards books 1888-1892, p. 186); in pencil by Daniel Oliver: D.O.; and by Thiselton-Dyer: And 13.6.89 (letter not found).
See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer, 29 March 1889 (in this edition as 89-03-29b).
Request to shipping agents not found.
Kew was regularly publishing parts of Hooker's icones plantarum (J. Hooker (1867-89)) and Curtis's botanical magazine (J. Hooker (1865-1904)).
There is a red pencil line in the central margin on the back of the folio, probably intended to highlight the details concerning shipping agents; and a large lead pencil ✓ below the end of the text.
Please cite as “FVM-89-04-17,” 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