6/8/91.
Let me offer my best felicitation, dear Mr James, to your election into the great Royal Horticult. Society of Britain, a distinction, which you have so well earned by your enthusiastic promotion of the gardening art in N.SW.1 May you through a long series of years enjoy this honor!
I have also again to thank you for sending a new part of your admirable horticultural work2
Kindly remind me in September of my wish to send you the 8th edition (in the english language) of the Select plants.3 It is enlarged by nearly 100 pages.
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller, M.D.
The Sydney morning herald, 19 July 1891, p. 8, reported that James, 'on the motion of Baron Mueller', had been elected a member of the Royal Horticultural Society. James was elected at the meeting of the Society held on 9 June 1891 (Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, vol 13, p. ci, 1891.
James (1892). The work was issued in 12 monthly parts from April 1891, followed by a publisher's bound version in 1892. See notes to M to H. James, 21 April 1891.
B91.13.10.
MS is a photocopy made available to the Library by Henry James's son. The whereabouts of the original letter is not known.
Please cite as “FVM-91-08-06,” 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