18th August 92
Dear Baron Mueller,
It is only fair to you to tell you that I am very dissatisfied […]1 Meston's collection of Bellenden Ker [fruits] [bought] for £20.2 There were only about [half] a gallon altogether, few of them named, Mr Bailey tells me most of them were [windfalls], and that no attempt was made to obtain adequate botanical material […] them. A fair price would be [about] £5. They were got in the early part of the present year during a private [ex]cursion. As you know nothing of the circumstances, I think it is only proper you should know how Mr Meston has behaved.
Yours truly
J. H. Maiden.
Please cite as “FVM-92-08-18a,” 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