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From Thomas Bride to Ferdinand von Mueller   17 May 1893

17th of May [189]31

Sir,

With reference to your letter of the 16th instant2 submitting an offer from Mr Scrivener3 of Guildford, Western Australia, to sell a copy of work entitled 'Eden book, or a compleat body of gardening',4 I have the honour to inform you that Mr. Scrivener has already offered the work for sale to the Library, and that the purchase of it was declined.

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your obedient Servant

T.F. Bride

Librarian

Baron von Mueller K.C.M.G. &c.

Botanical Museum

South Yarra

1

editorial addition.

2

See M to T. Bride, 16 May 1893.

3

Bride had evidently not noticed that Scrivener was a woman; see C. Scrivener to M, 4 April 1893 (in this edition as 93-04-04a).

4

J. Hill (1757).

Please cite as “FVM-93-05-17,” 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 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/93-05-17