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RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 65.05.02
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Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1865-05-02. R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora, J.H. Voigt and Monika Wells (eds), Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, <https://vmcp.rbg.vic.gov.au/id/65-05-02>, accessed April 10, 2025
Kew May 2d/65
My dear Dr Mueller
You will be sorry to learn that my father has been very seriously ill of Bronchitis,
he is now quite out of danger, but weakened, & will have to take great care of himself.
At his age, he will be 80 in July, such attacks are very alarming, happily he has
good health & strength to withstand them.
Under these circumstances I am as you may suppose overwhelmed with work, & must ask
you to excuse my writing at length. My father is himself well enough to write, though
he has not done any work for a month, & he will I hope address you himself.
I do not know how we stand, as to expenses of transmission of cases — I fear I have
got into confusion about them & find two bills of lading amongst my papers which should
have gone to you before. If we are in your debt for freight, pray let us know — Mr
Smith
thinks the arrangement was that each
pays on receipt of the cases
.
1
John Smith (1821-88).
2
See M to G. Bentham, 24 September 1864. Previously M had paid the outward freight, and Kew the return; M was sometimes able
to have the boxes carried from Melbourne free of charge (see M to G. Bentham, 13 February 1864).
Some Tussoc grass
spikes go out to you by this mail — [part] at my father's desire, — I have told him
they contain nothing but unopened flowers, but he thinks you should see this for yourself
— the case of Tussock plants arrived utterly dead, & rotten through. We have sent
to Hebrides for some plants for you, but they are not fit to send yet.
3
I wish you would send us a small dry-box of tubers of terrestial orchids. I think
if taken up in your autumn they would arrive in good order. You find fault with us
for not perforating the box, that had the papyrus,
— another correspondent attributes the death of his plants to the perforations!
4
See J. Hooker to M, 17 June and 20 July 1864, on papyrus being sent, and M to J. Hooker,
25 October 1864 (in this edition as 64-10-25a) on its arrival dead and rotten.
With united sincere regards
Ever very truly yr
J D Hooker.