March 23rd/91
The Baron,
Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. K.C.M.G., F.R.S., &c &c &c
My dear Baron,
Would you kindly send me a line to say that papers, pamphlets and your other publications which you have been good enough to send me from time to time were intended for myself and not for the Public Library of this Museum.1 I have at your suggestion written on two or three occasions to the Govmt of Victoria Library &c asking for your valuable works on the Botany of the Colony, and sent several of mine in exchange. The Sect. here2 thinks that some of them might have been intended for the Museum, such I am sure is not the case as I looked upon them as presents sent through your instrumentality in return for any slight services I may have been able to render to Botanical Science the Expedition to New Guinea, &c
We have no Botanical Library in the Museum — ours is entirely Zoological and Geological etc. although we may have many Botanical works of interest.
Please in sending me any of your publications in future to write my name in them — and do not address them to me as Curator or Director if they are intended for my private Botanical Library.
Believe me dear Baron Sir Ferdinand
yours very truly
Ed. P. Ramsay.
Please cite as “FVM-91-03-23,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-03-23