April 9th 1896.
Dear Sir,
By direction of the Council I have the honor to inform you that your wishes respecting the collection of some marram grass seed will be carried out as soon as possible and that the same will be forwarded to you as soon as obtained.
Yours faithfully
T. E. C. Henry
Town Clerk.1
Baron Von Mueller
Government Botanist
Melbourne
The minutes of the Council meeting on 1 April 1896 recorded the receipt of a request from M for marram grass seed (Minute book, 1890-4, p. 53, Borough of Portland). At the meeting on 6 May, a letter from M was reported, expressing his thanks for the seed that had been sent; see M to T. Henry, May 1896 (in this edition as 96-05-00k).
MS is a typed letter in the letter-press copy book.
Please cite as “FVM-96-04-09,” 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