20/9/92
If my memory serves me rightly, dear Mr Shillinglaw you kindly promised to come to me with some old books, containing pictures, connected with Columbus' Discoveries; I hope, that I am right in this, and that I did not make a forgotten appointment.1
I have hunted up meanwhile various works, and had of some pictures therein taken copies. Can you kindly bring your books some morning this week? as time for our purpose has passed on so much already. On Sunday and some days afterwards I am not available. It will be a charity to me, not to ask me to come to your place, as I am overwhelmed with departmental work. Will you kindly excuse also to your generous neighbours, Mr & Mrs Panton, that I did not yet call; but really I have been not master of my time
Always regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
The fourth centenary of Columbus's discovery of America was marked by a jubilee evening at the Melbourne Town Hall on 12 October 1892 at which M delivered the principal address; see B93.03.02.
Please cite as “FVM-92-09-20,” 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