15/10/95
It was very good of you, dear Miss Henley, to send the beautiful flowers of native growth, and that at so short a notice. They had a table of their own, with your honored name attached as that of the Sender, and your display will be specially noted in the next monthly number of the Victorian Naturalist.1
Is your plant of Mesembrianthemum edule [readily] fruiting and ripening seeds?
With regardful remembrance your
Ferd von Mueller
Will try to find your kind parents2
The dark Danish Cabbage is particularly nice when boiled with smoked beef.
I still think, that Aldrovanda vesiculosa might be found in your lagoons, if the various entangled plants were drawn out with a long-handled rake and accurately searched through3
Aldrovanda vesiculosa
Mesembrianthemum edule
Victorian Naturalist, vol. 12, no. 7 (October 1895), p. 75, lists the items exhibited at the meeting of the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria on 14 October 1895, including 'local wild flowers' contributed by 'Miss Henley, of Beechworth' and others.
See M to M. Henley, 20 November 1895.
MS accompanied by an envelope addressed by M: 'On Her Majesty's Service. Miss Henley Richmond-House, Milawa near Beechworth Government Botanist, Melbourne, 15/10/1895'. It bears the franked stamp of the office of the Chief Secretary, Victoria and is post stamped in Melbourne on 15 October 1895.
Please cite as “FVM-95-10-15a,” 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