To Walter Baldwin Spencer   14 March 1894

14/3/94

 

I hoped, dear Prof. Spencer to welcome you back on Friday-last, to offer you also my welcome again on your return to our colony,1 but you were evidently prevented from attending the fête in honor of the Norwegians.2 On Monday-Evenings I find it impossible to go out, because it is weekly mailday for Europe (Asia & Africa) and thus you missed me at the Field-Naturalist Club.

Let me hope, that you and your Lady and children are happy and well, and that thus you can with strength and cheerfulness resume here your important researches.

Regardfully you

Ferd von Mueller.

1
Spencer had been in the UK; he arrived back in Melbourne on 26 January 1894 (see Australasian , 3 February 1894, p 204).
2
The Royal Society of Victoria and the Victorian Branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia jointly hosted a reception in the Royal Society’s hall on Friday 9 March 1894 for the captain and officers of the Norwegian steam whaler Antarctic, which had arrived in Melbourne to undertake a pioneering voyage to Antarctica (see Age, 12 March 1894, p. 5).

Please cite as “FVM-94-03-14,” 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 26 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/94-03-14