18/10/95
On Tuesday I Iearnt, dear Mr Henley, from your honored Daughter, when she kindly sent the native flowers also this spring for the Field-Naturalists Club to the exhibition,1 that you and Mrs Henley were staying at the Federal Coffee-Palace. As I felt unwell all through the week, I only called this day, to pay you and your kind Lady my respects But you had left then for St Kilda, and as I feel poorly you will kindly excuse, if I do not wait on you both at once.2 Will you kindly accept the new edition of the Select Plants3 as a recognition of Miss Henleys genial helping at our spring-floral shows so splendidly and zealously. Her cooperation will also this year recorded4 in our Clubs Periodical "The Victorian Naturalist".5
Very regardfully your
Ferd von Mueller.
Please cite as “FVM-95-10-18a,” 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