7/12/91.1
This time I only write briefly, dear Dr Dyer, as I am under unusually heavy rural pressure of departmental work just now, — and yet do not like to miss the weekly mail for answering your last kind letter. In my private Library not a single copy of any of my works is left now. In the departm. Library here I have now only those single copies of the “Select plants” into which I wrote notes for the edition following. I will endeavour, to secure, wherever possible, second-hand copies of those editions, not contained in the Kew-Library. But would you be better or quicker able, to obtain them from our friend Dr Masters? He likely would only require the latest-issued volume, as he not likely has an ambition, to possess a more extensive Library than required for his particular engagements. Thus I fancy, that he would willingly transfer any of the former editions to the great Kew-Establishment, if merely asked
Always regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.
Please cite as “FVM-91-12-07a,” 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 1 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/91-12-07a