To Otto Tepper   24 February 1891

24/2/91

 

Sehr dankbar bin ich Ihnen, lieber Herr Tepper u so auch besonders diesmal Ihrem jungen Sohne für das Senden der Adansonia-Früchte. Solche kommen eben jetz sehr gelegen. Es sind schöne Exemplare. Was kann ich dem jungen Beamten in retour senden?

Ich bin noch sehr bedrückt mit rückständigen Arbeiten, welche sich während Jannuar ansammelten. So muss ich mich kurz fassen.

Immer Ihr

Ferd. von Mueller.

 
 
 

24/2/91

 

I am very grateful to you, dear Mr Tepper, and so also particularly this time to your young son for the consignment of the Adansonia fruits.1 They come just now at the right time. They are fine specimens. What can I send the young official in return?

I am still very burdened with overdue work that accumulated during January. So I must be brief.

Always your

Ferd. von Mueller.

 

Adansonia

 
1
See M to O. Tepper, 18 February 1890. Tepper had exhibited fruits forwarded by his son from the north-west coast at the meeting of the Royal Society of SA held on 3 February 1891 (Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, vol. 14, p. 358, 1891; see also Express and telegraph (Adelaide), 4 February 1891, p. 5.

Please cite as “FVM-91-02-24a,” 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 27 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-02-24a