To Annie Walker   3 June 1895

3/6/95

Dear Miss Walker

This letter is written by dictation as I do not feel quite well and as it is at a late hour of a laborious day. Your remarks on the eucupealiyptus¹ scented interests me greatly and I shall be exceedingly obliged to you if I could obtain sprigs of it with an open flower and ripe fruit also notes on the nature of the bark, and on the soil of which it grows near you it is impossible to name any species of eucupalyptus in so great a genus when the mentioned material is not available. Your painting is excellent but it does not give us the microscopic details your tree perhaps is more apple scented than lemon scented in that case it would be allied to a Victorian species. I would be glad to mention in the next addition² of my work on select plants your tree also under your honoured name³ by the help of some youth you will doubtless be able to obtain the speciemns asked for. Poor Mrs Capt Cole and her only remaining daughter I have not seen for a long time as the enormous amount of work in my department does not allow me to pay visits during this dreadful period of general depression the death of one of the daughters must have left an ever sad blank to the two remaining with regardful remembrance

yours Ferd. von Mueller

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