28/9/95
Accept my best thanks, dear Chevalier Dejardin, for the interest you evince in my intended sendings to the Musée d’Histoire naturelle.1 The boxes will be rather large and heavy, and therefore freight-good, so that I would send them straight on board, if the Doctor or some other Officer would see that they are transshipped at Marseille safely. As this would be so simple a duty, I would hardly venture to solicit for it the aid of the Office of his Excellency the Minister of foreign affairs. Perhaps difficulties may exist also as regards the freight, altho' the Musée d'Histoire naturelle seems to have made arrangements with the Messageries maritimes concerning transits. In that case, these heavy cases could probably be allowed to be sent merely by me on board, but I have on the next 2 steamers no friend among the Officers as Mons Ailland in the "Australien".
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd. von Mueller2
Please cite as “FVM-95-09-28,” 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 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/vonmueller/letters/95-09-28