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ML MSS.200/3, folder 1, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney. 85.12.09
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Nitraria Billardierii
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Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Annie Lindsay, 1885-12-09. 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/85-12-09>, accessed September 11, 2025
9/12/85
My best thanks are due to you, dear Madam, for sending me the beautiful photogram
of Mr Lindsay and his party.
I rejoyce to hear of their fair progress, and shall look eagerly forward for tidings
of their return from the lower Finke River,
not only as we are all interested to learn of its whole course and extent, but also
as likely this expedition of your husband will set at rest all roumours concerning
Leichhardt and his companions. The seeds you forwarded are of
, a bush which when I travelled 1847 & afterwards on St Vincents & Spencers Gulf
afforded me often its refreshing fruits; now these shrubs are probably much eaten
down anywhere by pastoral animals.
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Letter not found. See D. Lindsay to M, 21 October 1885 (in this edition as 85-10-21c), where Lindsay wrote that the exploring party had been photographed that day and
that his wife would send a copy of the photograph to M. The picture is not in M's
surviving photograph album in the library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.
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Let me hope that Mr Lindsay will triumphantly return in due time
Regardfully your
Ferd. von Mueller.
When writing to your husband send my best expressions for his success.