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Wilhelm Sonder to Friedrich Miquel, 1854-06-07.
Hamburg 7 June 1854 ¶ Most esteemed Sir! ¶ ¶ After I was prevented for a long time through business from gathering together the Mueller plants, I have finally forwarded them with the steamship ¶ de ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1856-06-18.
Main Camp on the Victoria River, ¶ 18 June 1856 ¶ Sir William, ¶ ¶ Prepared to leave in Mr Gregory's party this camp again within a few days, I am anxious to avail myself of the only opportunity, whi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-05-20.
Sydney bot. Garden ¶ 20 May 1857 ¶ Sir William. ¶ ¶ Desirous of communicating to you regularly by the mail, I shall forward a few lines again, and apprize you of the close of my labours in Sydney. Th...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-06-11.
Melbourne, bot. garden, 11. June 1857 ¶ My dear Sir William ¶ ¶ Only yesterday I had the pleasure of recieving your kind letters dated Febr. 2. and Jan 4. 1856, both having missed us when forwarded b...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Augustus Gregory, 1857-06-13.
13. June 57. ¶ My dear Mr Gregory. ¶ ¶ I beg to forward the duplicate of my official answer to your kind letter. My duplicate of the bot. report will have arrived. ¶ Major Christie brings you the bo...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-06-21.
Botanic Garden Melbourne ¶ 21. June. 1857 ¶ (private) ¶ My dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ With the Governments Despatch bag I had the honor of forwarding to you with this (the "European's" mail) two letters, ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Johannes Roeper, 1857-07-21.
Botanic Garden, Melbourne, ¶ 21 July 1857. ¶ Venerable Professor, ¶ ¶ More than 10 years have passed, since I had the honour to make your personal acquaintance during the meeting of scientists in Ki...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1857-09-15.
Melbourne, bot. garden 15. Sept. 57. ¶ Dear Sir William. ¶ ¶ Manyfold additional duties during the past month left little time for progress in my phytographical labours, but I hope to have soon the b...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1857-10-10.
Kew October 10th 1857. ¶ My dear Dr Mueller ¶ ¶ Since I last had the pleasure of addressing you, ¶ my Father has received the very splendid & most interesting collections of N. Australian plants whi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1858-01-15.
Melbourne bot garden ¶ 15 Jan 1858. ¶ My dear Dr Hooker ¶ ¶ I feel proud, that the botanical collections formed in tropical Australia and the notes, which accompanied them, met with the hardly expect...
Ferdinand von Mueller to William Hooker, 1858-07-15.
Melbourne bot gardens ¶ 15 July 1858 ¶ My much beloved Sir William. ¶ ¶ The mail due on the 5. of this month did not yet arrive. I have therefore but few things to allude to by this days mail. I will...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1858-10-15.
Melbourne bot. Garden ¶ 15 Oct. 58. ¶ My dear Dr Hooker. ¶ ¶ By the accident, which happened to the mail, your letter ¶ was delayed a month over the due time & I could therefore not respond to it ea...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1863-12-12.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 12/12/63 ¶ Dear Mr Bentham. ¶ ¶ By the Sussex I have forwarded to you 2 Cases, containing 52 fascicles of Eucalypti; the whole of my collection of that genus. I have inserted a...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1864-08-23.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ London Augt 23/64 ¶ My dear Sir, ¶ ¶ Having been holiday making the last month in the Channel Islands with Mrs Bentham the printing of the 2d vol ¶ has not gone on quite so ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-01-24.
24/1/66 ¶ ¶ It was my intention, dear Mr Bentham, to have sent you the rest of Compositae this month, but it was impossible. A number of queries concerning ferns rendered it necessary to spend for 2 ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-08-26.
26/8/66 ¶ ¶ By last mail, dear Mr Bentham, I did inform you, that I had shipped the rest of the Compositae by the ¶ Yorkshire ¶ , which ship left on the 21. July. It was one box, chiefly containing ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1866-12-25.
Christmas 1866. ¶ ¶ I am glad, dear Mr Bentham, to learn that the Yorkshire arrived & thus hope my plants will have reached you in time. ¶ I am engaged preparing Goodeniaceae & Epacrideae as a first...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-??-??.
¶ I have a new genus of Anonaceae (Fitzgeraldia), of Saxifrageae ¶ ¶ (Davidsonia) & an Australian species of Gomphandra. All these with the new Goodeniaceae are prepared for the 1 fasc of the 6 vol...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-03-23.
2[3]/3/67 ¶ ¶ I received, dear Dr Hooker, the valuable index to the plants sent away from Kew, also in good condition back all the Compositae I had forwarded for Benthams Work. I have commenced packi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-03-26.
26/3/67 ¶ ¶ This month, dear Mr Bentham, I have not much to report. Unfortunately I got the rest of the Goodeniaceae not ready for the Yorkshire, as many departmental duties stormed on me, but I shal...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-04-21.
Easterday 67 ¶ ¶ On the first of this month, dear Mr Bentham, the Wellesley sailed. This ship brings you all the remaining Goodeniaceae except one supplemental package (which I have in work now durin...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-05-27.
State Garden, Melbourne ¶ 27/5/67. ¶ ¶ The recent transfer, dear Dr Hooker, of my Department from the Chief Minister to the Minister of Lands ¶ has involved me in so many additional troubles & has c...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-06-14.
14/6/67 ¶ ¶ I was glad to perceive, dear Mr Bentham, that the extrawork, which the transfer of my department from one Minister to an other entailed on me, ¶ has not also delayed your writings. I thi...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-07-27.
Queenscliff ¶ 27/7/67. ¶ ¶ I write from Queenscliff, Dear Mr Bentham, whence I went to endeavour to regain strength by change of air. My health is seriously impaired by the anxieties of managing a la...
Joseph Hooker to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-08-07.
Aug 7/67 ¶ My dear Mueller ¶ ¶ The Wellesley has arrived & brought your case with the Goodeniaceae all safe — many thanks for the Xerotes basket, we have none so new and nice. ¶ ¶ Your ¶ Arran ¶ p...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1867-08-21.
Bot garden 21/8/67. ¶ ¶ I send you, dear Mr Bentham, Box 33 by the Great Britain under the obliging care of the Captain, & through the kindess of Mess. Bright freight free. ¶ This consignment contin...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-09-17.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ London ¶ Sept 17 1867 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ On my return from abroad I find your letters of the 21st April and 14th June — also the Goodeniaceae Stylideae etc which you mention —...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1867-09-20.
Queenscliff ¶ 20/9/67. ¶ ¶ You are probably not aware, dear Dr Hooker, that your Tillaea purpur[a]scens ¶ has at the time of maturity a beautifully ¶ violet ¶ colored capsule. This is characteris...
George Bentham to Ferdinand von Mueller, 1867-11-17.
25, WILTON PLACE, S.W. ¶ Nov 17/67 ¶ My dear Sir ¶ ¶ I was much pleased to learn by your last letter that you found yourself much better for your visit to Queens Cliff Mr Wilson ¶ whom I met the oth...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Berthold Seemann, 1868-03-29.
¶ Having deprived the ¶ Buettneriaceae, ¶ some time since, of the genus ¶ Macarthuria ¶ , ¶ I make some return in referring to that Order ¶ Lachnostachys ¶ ( ¶ Pycnolachne ¶ , Turcz.). ¶ I had...
Ferdinand von Mueller to George Bentham, 1868-03-29.
29/3/68. ¶ ¶ Through his Excellency's Office, dear Mr Bentham, you will receive simultaneously with this letter a small package of Museum plants, selected from 2 fascicles of Monopetaleae, which I wa...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Joseph Hooker, 1868-03-31.
Melbourne bot Garden ¶ [31/3] ¶ /68 ¶ ¶ At the eve of the departure of the mail, dear Dr Hooker, I just get the bill of loading for the case of Goodeniaceae &c, shipped by you pr Wave of Life. ¶ Onl...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Odoardo Beccari, 1877-12-31.
On board of the "Assam" ¶ Newyears eve 1877. ¶ When returning from a phytographic excursion to Shark-Bay and other portions of West-Australia, dear Dr Beccari, I received your kind letter of the 10th ...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Edward Ramsay, 1878-04-04.
Thursday ¶ ¶ I write this from Gippsland, dear Mr Ramsay, and will return to you the NZ Cyperaceae & Restiaceae so soon as I return. ¶ It is not in my recollection that your letter asked for the ret...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1887-12-25.
Christmas, ¶ 1887 ¶ ¶ It gives me pleasure, esteemed Professor, to send you with this post specimens of such Australian and New Zealand ¶ Ranunculus ¶ species, as far as such here can still be give...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Otto Tepper, 1888-04-10.
10/4/88. ¶ ¶ With the finish of the Key, ¶ esteemed Mr Tepper, whilst the Goodeniaceae are going through the press I also have critically studied with my now extensive material another couple of dou...
Ferdinand von Mueller to Adolf Engler, 1894-05-22.
22/5/94. ¶ ¶ This week's post, highly esteemed friend, will again bring you Leguminosae, the last that I can release from this order here for the time being. Some of this family you received during t...