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RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. 93.06.30Preferred Citation:
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1893-06-30. 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/93-06-30>, accessed September 11, 2025
1
Annotated by Tepper: 'Reply 4.7.93 Not in town since 3 weeks gone to Melbourne'.
Letter not found; the additional sentence refers to C. G. Frazer (see below).
Würden Sie mit gewohnter Freundschaft so gütig sein, lieber Herr Tepper, zu erkunden,
ob der prächtige Kunst-Maler C. Gordon Frazer, sich noch im Adelaide-Club aufhält,
u in diesem Falle ihm den beifolgenden Brief zustellen.
Ich habe eben einen Brief von Kew, wo keine besondere Schwierigkeiten meiner alleinigen
Fortsetzung der Flora im Wege stehen.
Ihnen stets zugethan
Ferd. von Mueller.
30/6/93
With your usual friendship, would you be so kind, dear Mr Tepper, to ascertain whether
the splendid artist C. Gordon Frazer
is still staying at the Adelaide Club, and if this is the case deliver the enclosed
letter to him.
2
From 1889 Frazer had used Melbourne as his headquarters for making topographical and
portrait paintings during an extended tour of the Australasian colonies and the South
Seas, commencing in New Zealand in 1885. M had come to know him during this time;
see Frazer's certificate of candidature for the Royal Geographical Society, London,
3 July 1893, which M signed 'from personal knowledge'. Frazer was a passenger on Rotomahana which was cleared out of Melbourne for New Zealand ports on 13 July 1893 (Argus, 14 July 1893, p. 4).
3
Letter not found.
I just have a letter from Kew, where no particular difficulties stand in the way of
my own continuation of the Flora.
4
M's promised but never published supplement to Bentham (1863-78). See M to W. Thiselton-Dyer,
4 July 1893 (in this edition as 93-07-04b).
Always your fond
Ferd. von Mueller.