Ferdinand von Mueller

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MS address: 'Dr. Jos. Dalt. Hooker, F.R.S. | &c &c &c | Kew Garden’.

Melbourne bot. Garden

10. Sept. 1857.

Dear Doctor Hooker

I am indeed extremely obliged to you, for devoting your precious time for procuring some of the books which will hereafter facilitate my labours. I likewise have to thank you, for your very great indulgence and generosity, and for your kind promise, that I may enjoy your aid when coming to Europe. I do not yet regret, having postponed my journey to Kew, for there is an immense mass of work, which can advantageously be done here, so that I shall not get so much alienated from the colony, which I adopted as the principle field of my labours, and where I received such valuable support.

If I publish here the Flora of Victoria, I shall exclude all the spec. of which there can be any doubt; for as in the course of time supplements must follow, it will be better to retain any sp. for them, which requires a critical examination in the Kew Herbarium.

I have the pleasure of the acquaintance the kind Mr Adamson, but in this busy corner of the earth, little chance is left, to enjoy fully as we wished, each others friendship.

I have, dear Dr Hooker, troubled your excellent father again, by transmitting a bill of exchange and an order for plants for this garden. It was however not my intention, to molest him any farther, but with choosing the nurseryman, who best would supply us, and to whom I could annually send an order for what this garden requires.

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See M to W. Hooker, 15 July 1857.

With my best wishes for your health and wellfare, I remain, my dear Sir, most obediently and gratefully yours

Dr J.D. Hooker, F. R. S.

&c &c &c.

I am longing very much for the iv fascicle of the Tasmanian Flora.

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J. Hooker (1860). The fourth fascicle was published on 28 July 1857 (TL2).

If I could be favoured with a proofsheet, I should be most thankful.

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I am longing … most thankful is a marginal annotation on the back of the MS.