Ferdinand von Mueller

1

M’s comment in this letter about Bates, who sailed for England on 14 February, suggests that the letter was written at the end of February or the beginning of March 1857.

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2

An unknown amount of MS missing.

In conclusion to this happy communication I thank you, Sir William, most heartily for your kind promise to inform me through your assistant of any incorrectness in my manuscript or rather in the names of the plants. Could I get by July or August the information on

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, nothing would stand in the way of issuing that part of my work this year. It will besides be the time when the Council is adjourned, and this is the only time in which I can bring the work through the Gov. Press. A Mr Bates

3

See footnotes M to W. Hooker, 19 January 1857.

took about a fourthnight ago [a]

4

editorial addition.

few books home for you. — the enclosed communication to As. Gray

5

M to A. Gray, 24 January 1857 is only known letter written to Asa Gray in early 1857.

you would perhaps obliging[ly] forward with other things. I was not sure whether the address is correct and did not like to loose an other letter.

Mr Benthams paper on Acacia

6

Bentham (1853).

has been to me the source of much grief. Sonder had agreed always to correct the manuscript names be fore publication and now even Acacia Melanoxyl. should have been misunderstood by myself! Such mistakes could have only arisen from misplacing the labels.

7

See postscript of M to W. Hooker, 11 January 1857; Lucas (1995), pp. 209–10.