28:3:1891
Baron Sir F. von Mueller K.C.M.G.
President Victorian Branch Royal Geographical Society
Melbourne Victoria.
Tietkens not available1 Kindly supply us applications and your recommendations. We deem very desirable Second should work well with leader2 can you recommend a competent Surveyor if so forward his testimonial
A. T. Magarey
Hon Sec R.G.S.A.3
declines crossed out. It had been announced two days earlier that David Lindsay had been appointed leader of the expedition being planned (the Elder Scientific Exploring Expedition, 1891-2), and that the position of Second in Command was to be offered to William Tietkens; see Evening journal (Adelaide), 26 March 1891, p. 3.
Just discovered likely man here crossed out.
See also A. Magarey to M, 31 March 1891 (in this edition as 91-03-31b).
MS is a completed telegram form. A copy of the text in the Society’s letter-press book, p. 147, does not record the changes noted below, or include the final passage, ‘can you … testimonial’.
Please cite as “FVM-91-03-28,” 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