Mount Edgecombe Queenscliff1
14.IX.93
My dear Baron
As it will be out of my power to be with you in S.A. I desire to express a hope that you may avail yourself of the opportunity for advancing an interest in the Antarctic.2 His Honor the Chief Justice3 has long manifested a desire to promote the commercial interest in the Northern Territory in which I have also a strong sympathy; he probably may recognize the Antarctic as an opening further "unemployed" in whaling and sealing — give his honor, please, my warmest respects and should you meet his colleague Judge Bundey say likewise — My earliest recollection of S.A. includes Sturt, Light and earliest explorers — whom I should now miss — but the recollection of whom should inspire the present generation. Hoping you may return to be welcomed by your unworthy friend
C. Pasco
'Mount Edgecombe' was the name of Pasco's home at Queenscliff, Vic.
Pasco was evidently expecting M to attend the forthcoming Adelaide meeting of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science. At the last minute, however, ill-health prevented M from going; see M to A. Macdonald, 25 September 1893.
Samuel Way.
Please cite as “FVM-93-09-14,” 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