Sunday1
Allow me, dear Mr Topp, to submit to you the enclosed letter2 arrived by last mail from Katharinenburg3 quite unexpectedly. You will observe, that I was elected there in the place of Alphonse de Candolle4 altho' I had only some slight litterary communications with this grand Society. You further will observe, that its publications will be forwarded to me, and as these embrace all branches of science, I will forward them to the public Library. Would our honorable Minister allow some of my larger works such as are still amply available at the Governm Printing Office to be sent to Katherinenberg? This could best be effected perhaps through Dr Bride.
Would you be on Wednesday evening for an hour free after tea, so that I may elicit your views on some few subjects in a quiet interview?5
Always regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller
in 1885, 7 April was a Sunday, and this is the date recorded on the file and also in Topp's reply (C. Topp to M, 19 April 1895). In Topp's minute on the file (see n. 5 below), he gives the date as 6 April, but this would seem to be an error.
Letter not found.
Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Urals Society of Lovers of Science; see Urals Society of Lovers of Science to M, 24 January 1895 (in this edition as 95-01-24a).
Topp minuted: 'Recommended that the Govt Printer be [inst]ructed to supply to the Librarian to be forwarded by the Ag General to the Society a copy of [such] of the Barons works of all there is still a good supply'. Topp dated the minute 6 April, but this would seem to be an error. The recommendation was approved by the Chief Secretary, A. Peacock, on 10 April.
Please cite as “FVM-95-04-07a,” 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