From Ferdinand von Mueller to Amie Stirling   [1891]

Best thanks, dear Miss Stirling, for sending me such a nice picture of yours1 It is as if [I]2 saw you personally, which pleasure I shall doubtless have some day. Let your brothers get you with a rake all the floating waterweeds there also.

Regardfully your

Ferd. von Mueller.

yourself? Word as transcribed ends at the extreme edge of the printed image and a continuation may have been cut off in the reproduction.

editorial addition — word omitted by M.

Letter not found. For the text given here, see the image of the letter published in A. Stirling (1980), p. 27. Stirling collected plants for M in the 1890s, when she was a young girl (cf. M to A. Stirling, 15 November 1892); the earliest dated specimen at MEL is 1891 when she would have been 11 years old, and M's letter is therefore dated to 1891 as the earliest likely date it would have been written.

Please cite as “FVM-91-00-00i,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-00-00i