16/11/95
I write this long after midnight, dear Miss Lewellin, so is my time beset; but I want to answer your kind letter1 at once, to thank the Lady,2 who so kindly offers the Gardeners Chronicle. I receive it however regularly by the mail, and did so since about 40 years. More, — I was befriended since the middle of the Century with the founder of the Gard. Chronicle Prof Lindley, who was illustrious before I was born, who conducted the Chronicle for 30 years as Proprietor and Editor, wo3 wrote me on his last sickbed a letter, which was finished by his son Sir Nathaniel Lindley. The successor in the Editorship is since 30 years Dr Masters, a medical man and like myself a corr. Member of the Inst. of France. With best greeting to all of you
Ferd von Mueller
The annual Examinations, which I conducted as an hon. Officer for the government has as an extrawork commenced and go on all January.
I get about 30 science-journals
Please cite as “FVM-95-11-16,” 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