The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller: Melbourne bot Garden ¶ 15. Oct. 1857 ¶ My dear Dr. Asa Gray, ¶ ¶ I have but a few spare moments left before the close of the mail, to answer your very kind lines just arrived through Sir Will. Hooker...

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Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 57.10.15

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Ferdinand von Mueller to Asa Gray, 1857-10-15. 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//letters/1850-9/1857/57-10-15-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot Garden

15. Oct. 1857

My dear Dr. Asa Gray,

I have but a few spare moments left before the close of the mail, to answer your very kind lines just arrived through Sir Will. Hookers care.

Letter not found.

I will do my best to furnish sets of Australian specimens speedily for your N. American lovers of Botany and will review my Composite Collection carefully for a set for your own herbarium.

Gray published several papers on Compositae in Hooker's journal of botany & Kew Gardens miscellany and elsewhere of which M would have seen copies.

For in whose hands could they better be placed?

Accept, dear Sir, the sentiments of my admiration for you and likewise my best wishes for your welfare.

Most obediently yours

Ferd. Mueller.