Banksia Double Bay1
Jan 4/93
My dear Sir Ferdinand
I have to thank you heartily for yoou kind rememberance of me as evidenced by your gift of a copy of the very interesting Brochure on the Columbus Jubilee. It must have been the work of much research and does you infinite credit.
With many fond wishes for the New Year I am very truly your
Philip Gidley King
I value very much your inscription in the opening leaves.2
To Baron
Sir Ferdinand Von Mueller KCM3
&c &c
NSW.
The inscription was partly coverd by a bookplate of the Ferguson Collection | National Library | Canberra. The editors are grateful to the collection and conservation staff of the National Library of Australia who removed that book plate to reveal the inscription:
To the honorable Ph. Gidl. King, M.L.C, FRGS &c, the worthy heir of great politic and naval fame, offered by Ferd. von Mueller, Christmas 1892.
One of M's visiting cards is pasted below the bookplate.
'G' omitted?
Letter not found. The text given here is from a letterpress (?) copy tipped into a copy of Columbus Jubilee, Melbourne Town Hall, October 12th, 1892, an offprint (B92.13.19) now in the National Library of Australia from the Proceedings of the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, vol. 10 (B93.03.02).
Please cite as “FVM-93-01-04a,” 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