Melbourne 27/8/94.
Honored Sir.
Will you be so friendly, to send me a small lot of seeds of the best species of pasture-grasses and fodder-herbs,1 cultivated in your garden and available at your autumn now. I will gratefully reciprocate.
Regardfully yours
Ferd. von Mueller
pasture … herbs has been underlined.
MS written by a clerk and signed by M. The letter, which has the appearance of being a circular letter, is filed among Wittrock's correspondence. There is another letter in Wittrock's archive with the salutation 'Honored Sir' (M. to V. Wittrock, 17 February 1896 (in this edition as 96-02-17a)); it too has the appearance of a circular letter sent to Directors of Gardens requesting seed exchanges.
Please cite as “FVM-94-08-27b,” 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