Beresford Road
Homebush1
Aug 28th /94
Dear Baron von Mueller
Thornton told me about the inclosed vine some time ago and promised to gather some of the blossoms for you to see if it was anything new, so I hasten to send it to you.2
I am glad you were pleased with the "Sea Grasses" and that I was at last successful in finding them.3 I was 3½ when we left Western Australia and I remember my mother drying the "Sea grass" for beds in Freemantle4 Bay, and it was a stupid thing of me to collect the Algi for you instead — I have often seen the minute shells on blades of these grasses and never thought more about them, but when I saw them at Elizabeth Bay5 it all came back to me. I showed some of this "sea grass6 to our Fisherman and he has promised to bring me some from the Parramatta River7 tomorrow. I will send it on to you but you must not please trouble to write to me, for I do not wish to lay one more straw on the work you have to do which no one else can accomplish. I want to help you not to hinder you, for I am very grateful to you for the kindness and sympathy you have given me in my work. If it is necessary get your Assistant to write to me. I don't forget one thing I am to do for you, and when opportunity offers your wishes will be attended to — I am going to my friends at Springwood8 next month for a visit.
With kindest regards
I am
your grateful friend
Georgina King
NSW.
The file contains a letter from Robert Thornton to G. King, 27 August 1894 which includes: 'I went out yesterday to look for the vine I was telling you about but the running bush fires had burnt it but I found a small piece of the same just beginning to run but the flowers were not quite out but I am sending it to you in this letter …'
See G. King to M, 14 August 1894.
Fremantle.
Sydney Harbour.
There is no closing quotation mark.
NSW.
NSW.
MS found with a specimen of Erythrorchis cassythoides (MEL 62370) collected by R. J. Thornton.
Please cite as “FVM-94-08-28,” 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