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Physical location:

Unit 24, VPRS 6605 inward correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria. 58.07.16

Preferred Citation:

Ferdinand von Mueller to Frederick Powlett, 1858-07-16. 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/1850-9/1858/58-07-16-final.odt>, accessed June 13, 2026

Melbourne bot. Garden,
16 July 1858.
My dear Mr Powlett.
The bearer of these lines, John Beaby, is warmly recommended to me by Mr O Shanassy and I shall use my influence to see him again employed at the zoological Gardens. But as there the work is at a standing still just now & as I have already taken one of the Beabys on in the bot Gardens, altho' overdrawing my average rate of wages, I should be glad if you could give him for a few weeks temporary employment.
1
Neither Beaby has been identified.
Most truely yours
Ferd. Mueller
Mr Commissioner Powlett
2
MS annotation: 'last Monday '.