The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Colonial Botanists office ¶ July 18th [189]2 ¶ Dear Baron ¶ ¶ I have received a letter this morning from my correspondent at Lund, Professor Otto Nordstedt, the learned writer upon Characeae & allied...

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Letter press copy book 2, p. 124, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane. 92.07.18

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Frederick Bailey to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1892-07-18. 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/92-07-18>, accessed September 11, 2025

Colonial Botanists office

Brisbane, Qld.

July 18th [189]2

Dear Baron

I have received a letter this morning from my correspondent at Lund, Professor Otto Nordstedt, the learned writer upon & allied plants. In which he wishes me to state to you the exact words used in his letter of 8.10.91 re his Australian .

Nordstedt (1891).

They were — "Pars 1 of the Australasian will soon be published (the 10 plates are printed) and as Baron F. v. Mueller will get 100 copies (for subsidies from the Phytologic Museum at Melbourne) I suppose he will send you a copy of it."

See M to O. Nordstedt, 14 April 1892, with which M enclosed a letter (not found) that he had received from Bailey. Apparently in response to M's letter, Norstedt again wrote to Bailey on 1 June 1882:

From a letter of Baron F. v. Mueller I find you have been misunderstanding me letter. I suppos I wrote: " Probably you will get it (Austral. ) from Baron v. Müller." But that was only a supposition. I supposed that he would send specimens of it to several public museums & department and also to your department.

If I had written so […], I beg your to tell Baron Müller the words exactly (on this matter) in my letter to you.

Both this letter of Nordstedt's and the earlier one cited by Bailey are in B202 F. M. Bailey inward correspondence, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

It would seem from this request that you have objected to the wording in my reference to you about receiving a copy. If the wording was not quite to your taste I think it would have been better that you should have addressed me on the subject — & if in fault I would have at once apologised — but really the few shillings cost of the pamphlet I should much rather have paid. I have have

Word repeated.

any bother of this kind. I am on good friendly terms with my many foreign correspondents and never ask for a present of their works but purchase when such can be afforded. I regret that this misunderstanding has occurred.

Yours very truly

F. M. Bailey